Geographies of gender and sexuality I: Engaging the shift towards Southern urbanism

Abstract

Geographers working on sexuality - and specifically of relevance to this report, scholars working on non-heternormative sexualities - have come to understand the need to engage with the urban South, culminating in acknowledgement of the benefits of engagements with Southern urbanism literature. I summarise how very recent sexualities scholarship is starting to signal direct connections with some of the broader interests of Southern urbanism. Such scholarship, I argue, has more in common with some of the empirical and theoretical interests of Southern urbanism than existing interests of the geographies of sexualities literature. I also consider how such emergent scholarship can potentially enrich interests of the geographies of sexualities literature in new and exciting ways.

Geographies of queer economies

“…For example, work on urban commercial sexual exchange in non‐western contexts has paid attention to relations between sex work, economic reconfiguration, globalisation and transnational mobilities (Garcia, 2016; Kong, 2017; Yue & Leung, 2017). This work has provided insights into LGBTQ+ consumption practices beyond the global North, and often beyond formal LGBTQ+ establishments (Tucker, 2023). For example, in the edited volume Love and Globalization Padilla (2007) explores how mobilities afforded by globalisation shape the political economy of intimacy.…”