(cfp) LGBTQ Liveability in Rural Spaces Janeiro 7, 2020
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LGBTQ Liveability in Rural Spaces
Call for Papers for a session at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Conference, London 1-4 September 2020
Stefanie C. Boulila (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts)
Sponsorship: Applying for Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group and Rural Geography Working Group
In popular discourse, sexual freedom is associated with the city (Hubbard 2012, Bilić and Stubbs 2015). Rural spaces are imagined as inherently heteronormative and hostile towards queer subjects (Butterfield 2018). Geographies of sexualities and queer geographies have been at the forefront of deconstructing rural spaces as sexually monolithic (Bell and Valentine 1997, Bell 2003, Gorman-Murray et al. 2012, McGlynn 2017). This body of work has complicated assumptions about queer migration patterns from rural to urban (Gorman-Murray 2007, 2009), explored anti-urban or lesbian feminist countercultures (Herring 2010, Valentine 1997) as well as the meanings of homonormativity in rural spaces (Brown 2015). These interventions have demonstrated that the sole understanding of the rural/urban axis through the progressive/conservative dichotomy has only provided a limited and arguably normative understanding of rural queer lives.
Recent policy research on queer lives in EU member states indicates that the marginalisation of LGBTQ people in rural societies and regions has to be understood through situated and geographically nuanced factors and analyses (Bilić and Stubbs 2015, Monro, Christmann et al. 2016, Butterfield 2018). Adding to the previous advances made by the queer geographical canon, this session queries how liveability can help us conceptualise rural queer lives. Judith Butler’s (2004) notion of liveability has lately been developed as an analytical tool for the queer social sciences to move beyond the common juridico-political understandings of equality and rights to one of lived experiences (Browne et al. 2019). With that, liveability disrupts place-based imaginaries about progress or its lack (Browne et al. 2015).
The session seeks to explore the diverse aspects of rural queer lives beyond the rural-urban dichotomy. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Queer networks
- Conviviality
- Social and political participation and political activism
- (In)visbility
- Gentrification and urban-rural migration
- Space and place-making
- Intersectional queer rural lives
- Queer economies and counter-cultures
If you are interested in submitting a paper, please send abstract of up to 250 words, and your name and institutional affiliation to stefanie.boulila@posteo.de by 31st January 2020.
Postgraduate Students, early-career researchers and activists are particularly encouraged to submit a paper. It is possible to give a remote presentation.
(cfp) Heteroactivism, Homonationalism and National Projects Janeiro 8, 2019
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Heteroactivism, Homonationalism and National Projects
Call for Papers for session at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Conference, London 28-30 August 2019
Stefanie C. Boulila (University of Göttingen), Kath Browne (Maynooth University) and Catherine Jean Nash (Brock University),
Call for Papers for a session at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), London 28-30 August 2019. Sponsored by the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group.
It has long been argued that the national project is inherently heteronormative – creating and celebrating specific family forms, as well as reiterating nationalistic visions through gendered and sexualised normativities (e.g. Binnie and Bell, 2000; Sharp, 1996; Yuval-Davis 1997). More recently, investigations of homonationalism have explored the cooption and use of (white) lesbian and gay ‘acceptances’ often in the form of civil unions to reproduce the national project, affirm racial hierarchies and engage in postcolonial military conflict (e.g. Puar, 2007; El-Tayeb 2011, Haritaworn 2012). At the same time there have been new forms of resistances to sexual and gender equalities, including anti-gender campaigns. As an analytical category, heteroactivism opens up a space to examine these phenomena relationally as well as in their heterogeneity (Browne and Nash, 2017).
The securitization of borders, the rise of populism and the far right in allegedly post-racial times require sexual and gendered analyses that engage with the multiplicities of support and oppositions to rights, equalities and intersectional justice. This session seeks explore the multifarious intersections of heteroactivism and nationalist projects. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Race, religion and oppositions to/acceptances of sexual and gender liberations
- Modernity, Europeaness And LGBT/Women’s rights
- University Cultural wars and governmental interventions
- Sexualities of the far right/populisms
- Gender Norms and nationalisms
- Opposing the Oppositions/acceptances Confrontation, debate and protest, the promise of oppositional politics
- Heteroactivism and homonationalist affirmations
If you are interested in submitting a paper, please send your expression of interest including title, abstract of up to 250 words, and your name and institutional affiliation to the session to kath.browne@mu.ie, sboulil@uni-goettingen.de, and cnash@brocku.ca by 31st January 2019.
Geographies of Sexualities (Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies) Outubro 25, 2018
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Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies
Geographies of Sexualities
Guest Editor: Emily Kazyak
Email address: ekazyak2@unl.edu
Abstract deadline: November 1, 2018
Questions of geography, space, and location are integral to sexuality scholarship. For instance, scholars have asked: How do LGBTQ+ identities, communities, and activism form in cities? How are rural areas, contrary to popular assumptions, also spaces where LGBTQ+ identities, communities, and activism occur? What role do LGBTQ+ neighborhoods play in the changing nature of cities? How do LGBTQ+ people build intentional communities? How does gender matter insofar as the migration patterns and residential choices for lesbian women and gay men often look different? How do race, class, and gender matter in LGBTQ+ urban spaces? More global and transnational perspectives open up questions including: How does migration matter for the ways in which people make sense of their sexuality? How do sexuality and gender identity inform the processes of seeking asylum? How do the categories, identities, and forms of activism that exist in one context or country not always translate to another context or country?
The goal of this special issue is to build on this scholarship and illuminate why it continues to be important for sexuality scholars to interrogate questions of geography, space, and location.
Contributors are asked to consider how binaries related to space, location, and geography inform understandings of sexuality and matter to the identities and experiences of lesbians. For instance, how are binaries such as urban/rural, private/public, center/border, South/North, migrant/native, global/local, salient?
Contributors may also interpret the theme of spaces more broadly and think about how sexuality matters and how the identities and experiences of lesbians matter in or are shaped by a variety of contexts, including but not limited to: families, schools, online communities, courtrooms, LGBTQ+ neighborhoods and communities, and pride parades.
The Journal of Lesbian Studies is an interdisciplinary journal and the special issue invites contributions from scholars in multiple fields and scholars using multiple methodologies and theoretical frameworks to understand the intersections of geography and sexuality.
Submit abstracts of 200-250 words, and a 2-3 page CV, to Emily Kazyak at ekazyak2@unl.edu by November 1, 2018. Acceptance notifications will be sent by December 1, 2018, and completed manuscripts are due March 1, 2018.
(cfp) Here Versus There: Beyond Comparison in Queer and Sexuality Politics Setembro 6, 2018
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(cfp) Here Versus There: Beyond Comparison in Queer and Sexuality Politics
National University of Ireland Maynooth, 18th June 2019
In sexual and gender politics, the Global North can be seen as ‘won’ and ‘sorted’, in contrast to a Global South that needs support to achieve Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and other sexual/gendered rights. This has specific effects both in places such as Ireland and the UK, where the politicisation of sexual and gendered lives moves ‘elsewhere’, and also for these ‘elsewheres’ marked as ‘unsafe’, ‘unfriendly’ and ‘backward’. This conference is seeking papers, provocations and discussions that investigate both the creation of the binaries of here/there, Global North/Global South in terms of sexual and gender politics, legalities and geographies.
Academics, activists, policy makers and all who are interested are invited to submit a proposal to contribute to this one-day event. Contributions can take multiple forms, including presentations, films and artistic expressions.
It is anticipated that the day will be used to create a proposal for a special issue.
Accessible buildings will be used and there will be a sliding scale for registrations, including a free option for those who cannot pay. For any other support needs, please let get in touch.
Proposals of no more than 250 words should be submitted here by Friday 30th November 2018: https://goo.gl/forms/Qjy7hC3tiE8EFSRM2.
For further information please contact Kay Lalor k.lalor@mmu.ac.uk or Kath Browne Kath.Browne@mu.ie
Seminário Internacional “Trabalho Sexual, Políticas e Direitos Humanos” Novembro 29, 2017
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Seminário Internacional “Trabalho Sexual, Políticas e Direitos Humanos”
13 de dezembro | 14h30 | Auditório 1
O seminário acontece no dia 13 de dezembro de 2017, entre as 14h30 e as 18h30, no Auditório 1.
Inscrição
A entrada é gratuita, mas exige inscrição aqui.
Será atribuído um certificado de presença aos participantes inscritos.
Programa
14h30 Abertura
15h00 Conferência com Pye Jakobsson (Rose Alliance, Estocolmo)
16h00 Intervalo
16h15 Exibição do filme “Normal: Real stories from the sex industry” de Nicola Mai (2012)
Apresentação e comentário por Mara Clemente (ISCTE/IUL)
17h25 Pausa
17h30 Apresentação do GIITS – Grupo Interdisciplinar de Investigadores sobre o Trabalho Sexual
18h00 Encerramento
<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/50289487″>Normal – Real Stories from the Sex Industry – Trailer</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user3467382″>Nicola Mai</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
(cfp) New geographies of HIV/AIDS in times of PrEP Setembro 4, 2017
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New geographies of HIV/AIDS in times of PrEP
Call for papers/panellists at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 10-14 April 2018
Convenors: Gavin Brown (University of Leicester) & Cesare Di Feliciantonio (Maynooth University)
Following the introduction and the expanding availability of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and improved uses of ‘treatment as prevention’ for those already infected with HIV, new infections-rates for HIV have started to decline, especially in those cities and among those populations where campaigning and public investments have been strongest. As argued by Auerbach and Hoppe (2015: 1), “getting PrEP to ‘work’ is more complicated than simply ‘getting drugs into bodies’”. Rather, PrEP embodies a range of interacting physiological, psychological and social realities that together affect (…) relationship dynamics, sexual cultures and social arrangements that have influence beyond HIV”. In fact the use of PrEP (as well as the adherence to antiretroviral therapies, ARTs, for HIV-positive people) reshapes the meanings associated with categories such as ‘safe’, ‘bareback’ and ‘raw’ sex, offering new possibilities for empowerment as well as new forms of biopower (Dean, 2015; Preciado, 2015). Given the persistent inequalities in the access and availability of PrEP, we think there is the need for a serious engagement by geographers and social scientists in producing knowledge about the emerging social and spatial dimensions of HIV prevention and treatment, including the ways in which new socio-technical assemblages of treatment and prevent have reconfigured the social, cultural, and sexual lives of people with (and at risk of infection from) HIV.
We invite contributions around (but not limited to) the following topics/questions:
- the uneven geographies of PrEP accessibility and availability;
- the political economy of PrEP;
- the socio-technical materialities of PrEP;
- PrEP, race, gender and class;
- how PrEP impacts upon HIV-related acceptance and stigma;
- the (uneven) social and spatial dimensions of the persistence of “Truvada whores” stigma (Calabrese and Underhill, 2015);
- the sexual citizenship of undetectability;
- PrEP as community-based activism;
- PrEP as the expression of biopower;
- comparative perspectives on campaigns, policies and strategies to implement PrEP access;
- intersections between PrEP-related activism and HIV+-related activism
- the geographical implications of ‘undetectability’;
Expressions of interest
We intend to organize a paper or panel session depending on the preferences of the participants. If interested, please contact Gavin Brown (gpb10@leicester.ac.uk) and Cesare Di Feliciantonio (difeliciantoniocesare@gmail.com) by October 6th; in the email please include a 250-words abstract if you prefer a paper session or a short outline (up to 7 lines) if you prefer a panel session. We will try to arrange the best format solution accordingly.
References
Auerbach, J. D. and Hoppe, T. A. 2015. Beyond “getting drugs into bodies”: social science perspectives on pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV. Journal of the International AIDS Society 18(suppl. 3), http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.18.4.19983 [last visit: August 24th 2017]
Calabrese, S. K. and Underhill, K. 2015. How Stigma Surrounding the Use of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Undermines Prevention and Pleasure: A Call to Destigmatize “Truvada Whores”. American Journal of Public Health 105(10): 1960-4.
Dean, T. 2015. Mediated intimacies: raw sex, Truvada, and the biopolitics of chemoprophylaxis. Sexualities 18(1/2): 224-46.
Preciado, P. 2015. Condoms chimiques. Libération 11/06, http://www.liberation.fr/chroniques/2015/06/11/condoms-chimiques_1327747[last visit: August 24th 2017]
(cfp) ‘Doing Sex: Men, Masculinity and Sexual Practices’ Janeiro 25, 2017
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Call for Papers
‘Doing Sex: Men, Masculinity and Sexual Practices’ Conference
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
July 14-15, 2017
Submission Deadline: February 6th 2017
This colloquium aims to bring together the study of sexual practices and desires and critical studies of men and masculinities. We are explicitly interested in returning to some of the provocations of sexology in the twentieth century to think through men’s sexuality today. For Kinsey there is an inherent paradox in “man’s absorbing interest in sex and his astounding ignorance of it; his desire to know and his unwillingness to face the facts.” Whilst we can see some of the failings and problematics in Kinsey, Masters & Johnson, and other Sexologists, it is critical to reflect not simply as criticism of these, but also of what they are suggestive and enlightening.
Today, nearly seventy years after the publication of Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, after the sexual revolution, after the censorship trials, after the rise of feminism, queer theory, increased visibility of trans* and genderqueer identities, and LGBT activism, we wish to ask: what are men doing sexually? Men’s sexual practices, more often than not, are pathologized, diagnosed, managed, treated. Whilst productive and valuable work has been undertaken in the areas of rape culture and sexual violence, this symposium aims to explore the diversity and scope of male sexual practices. More specifically, current discussions on masculinity and sexuality tend to marginalize the fear, the excitement, the shame, the pleasure and the embarrassment that men experience when doing sex. This symposium addresses this by focusing on men doing sex.
For more information see: https://doingsexconference.wordpress.com/
(cfp) Que(e)rying Gender and Tourism Research Janeiro 5, 2017
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Que(e)rying Gender and Tourism Research
Call For Papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 29th August -1st September 2017.
Eveleigh Buck-Matthews, Coventry University
Dr Jaeyon Choe, Bournemouth University
Dr Claudia Eger, University of Warwick
Heather Jeffrey, University of Bedfordshire
Dr Caroline Scarles, University of Surrey
Sponsored by the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group (GLTRG) and the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG)
There is a growing body of knowledge concerned with gender and tourism, but still many voices remain unheard. Feminists are as varied as the subjectivities they so often research, but are joined together within a common emancipatory project. Queer theory can aid in an emancipatory project by destabilising foundational assumptions of normality (de Souza, Brewis & Rumens, 2016; Rumens & Tyler, 2016), and yet it has received little attention from tourism scholars. This session is designed to engage participants in a critical conversation on gender and feminism within tourism, hospitality and events research, to explore contentious issues among feminists and pave the way for collaboration. Papers concerning any aspect of gender within tourism, hospitality and events research are invited, as well as papers investigating multiple voices and perspectives within gender and tourism, which may relate to but not be confined by the following areas:
* Female hosts as guests and the reification of roles
* Masculinities in tourism, hospitality, and events
* LGBTQ voices in tourism, hospitality, and events
* Casual/precarious gendered workers
* Postcolonial feminism and subaltern studies in tourism
* Insights from queer theory for gender and tourism
* Feminist theory and practice
We are currently seeking contributions for a paper presentation session involving five presentations each lasting around 15 minutes with time for questions. The presentation may be executed in a traditional or innovative style, and we actively encourage a wide range of styles; including snapshots and pechakucha.
Please send abstracts (approx. 250 words) with author contact details to Heather Jeffrey (heather.jeffrey@beds.ac.uk) by the 1st February 2017.
Visibilidades, escalas geográficas e desafios metodológicos Maio 28, 2016
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IV SEMINÁRIO NACIONAL SOBRE MÚLTIPLAS TERRITORIALIDADES
IV SEMINÁRIO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE MICROTERRITORIALIDADES NAS CIDADES:
Visibilidades, escalas geográficas e desafios metodológicos
26, 27, 28 e 29 de outubro de 2016
Local: Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa
CHAMADA DE TRABALHOS
Este evento tem por objetivo construir caminhos de produção científica que contribuam com a visibilidade de diferentes grupos sociais e suas relações com as ciências humanas. Para tanto, convidamos pesquisadores e ativistas sociais para inscrever suas experiências neste evento, a fim de debatermos as formas pelas quais podemos desafiar nossas metodologias para incluir diversas espacialidades ainda negligenciadas pelo cânone científico e o processo de educação.
A valorização das espacialidades criadas por diferentes alteridades envolve a compreensão de que suas existências não são apenas locais, mas constituídas em múltiplas escalas interdependentes, desde a micro (imaginando a escala do corpo) até a macro (a escala do globo).
Estes e outros debates são bem vindos para serem realizados nesse evento. Pedimos que os trabalhos enviados sejam entre 10 e 15 páginas, em papel A4, margens de 3cm em todos os lados, letra Arial 12 e espaço 1,5 (dentro Data de envio: até 31 de julho de 2016).
ATENÇÃO: ACESSE A PLATAFORMA DO EVENTO EM http://getepolitica.org/ocs/index.php/snmt/snmt
(cfp) Neoliberal academia and the sexuality scholarship within Human Geography Janeiro 18, 2016
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CFP: Neoliberal academia and the sexuality scholarship within Human Geography
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2016 in London, 31 August to 2 September 2016
Session Organisers: Chen Misgav, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Thomas Wimark, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University.
Universities around the globe are increasingly being affected by neoliberal trends (Castree, 2006). The (now not so) new market logic require universities to commodify, restructure and consolidate their activities in order to be profitable (Dowling, 2008), e.g. through closing down or merging research departments and cutting unprofitable courses and research fields. Simultaneously, scholars are becoming ever more exposed to a competitive academia forcing us to intensify our production (Birch, Bond, Harris, Hoogeveen, Laliberte & Rosol, 2012) through individualised self-auditing processes in order to remain within academia (Berg in Castree, 2006). Several scholars have discussed the impact of neo-liberalisation on research production, foremost with a focus on race and ethnicity (e.g. see Berg, 2012; Kobayashi, Lawson & Sanders, 2014). However, less is known of the impact on the sexuality scholarship.
It is now more than 15 years ago the JGHE Symposium: Teaching Sexualities in Geography was held discussing geographers’ engagements with sexuality in higher education (Knopp, 1999). Since then the sexuality scholarship has become an important part of Human Geography with an increasing bulk of literature and research being published each year. Sexuality scholars have been successful in claiming space within Human Geography. This session seeks to discuss both the limits and the possibilities of the neoliberal academia for scholars of sexuality. The themes include but are not limited to:
· Sexuality scholarship and curriculum in the neoliberal academia
· Teaching sexuality in the era of budget cuts and consolidation
· Challenges for minority sexuality students in the individualised academia
· Postgrad students and sexuality scholarship
· Postdoc opportunities and sexuality
· Young academics and the scholarship of sexuality
· Funding opportunities and policy relevant research
· Voices from different spaces and places, such as the global North/South, northern/southern Europe
If interested to present a paper, please send a 250-word abstract (clearly stating title, keywords, name, institution, and contact details) to Chen Misgav (chenmisg@post.tau.ac.il) and Thomas Wimark (thomas.wimark@humangeo.su.se) by noon (CET) February 15th, 2016.
References
Berg, L. D. (2012). Geographies of identity I Geography–(neo) liberalism–white supremacy. Progress in human geography, 36(4), 508-517.
Birch, K., Bond, S., Harris, T., Hoogeveen, D., Laliberte, N., & Rosol, M. (2012). What can we do? The challenge of being new academics in neoliberal universities. Antipode, 44(4), 1055-1058.
Castree, N. (2006). Research assessment and the production of geographical knowledge. Progress in Human Geography, 30(6), 747-782.
Dowling, R. (2008). Geographies of identity: labouring in the’neoliberal’university. Progress in Human Geography.
Knopp, L. (1999). JGHE Symposium: Teaching Sexualities in Geography [1] Queer Theory, Queer Pedagogy: new spaces and new challenges in teaching geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 23(1), 77-79.
Kobayashi, A., Lawson, V., & Sanders, R. (2014). A commentary on the whitening of the public university: The context for diversifying geography. The Professional Geographer, 66(2), 230-235.
Paulo Jorge Vieira 