Geographies of Sexualities: Bodies, Spatial Encounters and Emotions

Craene, Valerie De

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“…Public institutions such as the police apparatus, medical institutions, but also the education system or the labour market, and the professionals working in them, play an active role in disseminating these norms throughout society (Weeks 1981; Johnson 2002). To achieve this, institutions do not only disseminate discourses on health and normality, but also mobilise emotions such as shame and disgust to repress sexual dissidence (De Craene 2017).…”

Section: Intersectionality and Heterotopiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectional Heterotopia: HIV and LGBTQ+ Movement in China

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Loopmans

2020

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Unprotected sex is the primary mode of HIV transmission in China. In 2014, 25.8 per cent of newly diagnosed cases were attributed to unprotected sex between men (National Health and Family Planning Commission 2015). While the majority of the nation’s new HIV infections are due to heterosexual sex, HIV is deeply tied to homosexuality in public discourse in China. Standing at the intersection of a stigmatised disease and sexual dissidence, HIV‐positive gay men are particularly ‘Othered’, suffering from intense prejudice and discrimination. However, we analyse how this intersection not only presents oppression, but also agency. Whereas Chinese mainstream discourses are often imbued with homo‐negativity, the intersection of being gay and HIV‐positive has allowed the creation of LGBTQ+ NGOs as heterotopia which do not only function as counter‐sites where alternative social relations and norms can be imagined, but also as nodes in wider societal networks from where LGBTQ+ rights can be promoted.

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Section: Intersectionality and Heterotopiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectional Heterotopia: HIV and LGBTQ+ Movement in China

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Loopmans

2020

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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“…Following Anderson and Smith (2001), we argue that a suppression of emotions produces an incomplete understanding of the world. Neglecting emotions excludes a key set of relations through which lives are lived and societies are made (see also Davidson, Smith, and Bondi 2012;De Craene 2017a). Therefore, in our work, it has been important to take up these often-neglected domains of human positioning in the world.…”

Section: Space For Emotions?mentioning

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My best geographer’s dress: bodies, emotions and care in early-career academia

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Craene

Kenis

2019

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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In this paper, we draw on our personal experiences with the perpetuating gender bias in (early-career) academia, more specifically within geography. We develop two main arguments. First, we argue that everyday academic practices stand in sharp contrast with the critical content geography, as a discipline, aims to study and teachincluding its feminist, anti-colonial, and queer understandings. Strikingly, geography as a field does not seem able to apply its academic insights into its internal organization. Indeed, everyday academic practices within geography reproduce structural gendered inequalities. Consequently, geography reproduces the historical 'maleness' of the discipline, both in terms of who embodies it and through the methods and topics it focuses on. Second, we reflect on the strategies we develop to denounce and alter the unjust practices we are confronted with. Yet, these strategies reveal the double bind early career women face, as these very strategies may risk to undermine one's own precarious position, or to give the skewed impression of reproducing the male, disembodied ideal we are fighting.

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“…When another colleague reacted to that post, the colleague who shared the article warned my colleague: "careful what you say, or the next paper she writes might be about you." The timing of that comment was not that surprising, as it appeared a couple of months after the publication of some of my first writings on the importance of reflecting on the researcher's positionality, including the researcher's erotic subjectivities (De Craene, 2017a, 2017b. I have argued and continue to argue that we need to understand and shed light on the context in which we conduct research to better understand how knowledge comes into being, and the power relations, structures, and everyday practices that privilege certain forms of knowledge to the detriment of others.…”

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“Oops, I didn’t know we couldn’t talk about sex”: Sex researchers talking back to the erotophobic academy using the researcher’s erotic subjectivitiesGuest editorial themed section ‘the researcher’s erotic subjectivities’

Craene

2022

Sexualities

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A proliferation of research outputs in recent years that takes into account the erotic subjectivities of the researcher seems to suggest that both research on sexuality and the inclusion of the desiring researcher’s body in academic writings have become accepted as valuable and relevant academic research topics and methods. Yet, the often animated and at times uncomfortable discussions these academic interventions generate—also beyond academic settings—attest to the enduring sensitivity that comes with (discussing) the researcher’s sex and sexuality. This special section aims to provide a space to explore the methodological, ethical, and epistemological implications of (i) the researcher’s immersion in or withdrawal from sexual/ized interactions, and (ii) reflexively reporting about the researcher’s erotic subjectivities in scholarly outputs such as journal articles or conference presentations. In doing so, it not only critiques current academic structures and a masculinist politics of science that are at best not equipped to take into account the complexities of (auto-)ethnographic sex research. It also turns a critical eye towards the blind spots we might have as sex researchers towards the differential power relations with different actors involved in (auto-) ethnographic research that explicitly deals with the researcher’s erotic subjectivities. Reducing those blind spots will make us less vulnerable to gratuitous comments by the erotophobic academy as well as the increasing conservative societal forces who are all too eager to delegitimize our academic writings, while exploring the complexities of (auto-) ethnographic sex research aims to increase the rigour of our work. By talking back, we aim to advance conversations on the methodological, ethical and epistemological implications of taking seriously the researcher’s erotic subjectivities in our research endeavours.

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Geographies of Sexualities: Bodies, Spatial Encounters and Emotions

Cited by 9 publications

References 60 publications

Intersectional Heterotopia: HIV and LGBTQ+ Movement in China

Intersectional Heterotopia: HIV and LGBTQ+ Movement in China

My best geographer’s dress: bodies, emotions and care in early-career academia

“Oops, I didn’t know we couldn’t talk about sex”: Sex researchers talking back to the erotophobic academy using the researcher’s erotic subjectivitiesGuest editorial themed section ‘the researcher’s erotic subjectivities’

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