Queer(ing) Urban Space
Histories, Tactics, Futures in a Glocal World
Will be published approx. on 18. December 2025
Book
Hardback
204 pages
978-90-04-74838-5 (ISBN)
Description
Queer(ing) Urban Space: Histories, Tactics, and Futures in a Glocal World brings together case studies on queerness and queering in urban spaces across diverse global contexts. Engaging with power, narrative, and desire, it responds to calls for new urban epistemologies beyond Western normative frameworks. The volume foregrounds intersections between Global North and South, exploring how colonial legacies, legal regimes, and spatial politics shape queer life. While research on queer access to public space has focused on Western cities, this book highlights underexplored contexts in the Global South, offering critical insights into how queerness challenges, negotiates, and reimagines the cis-heteronormative logics of urban modernity.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-74838-5 (9789004748385)
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Jessica Albrecht is a postdoctoral research fellow at CAS-E (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg). She received her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Heidelberg, focusing on girls' schools in Sri Lanka. Her current research looks at theories of embodiment in religion as well as Buddhist psychology, religious activism and global history. Jessica Albrecht is also the founder of En-Gender, an international and interdisciplinary journal and network for Gender Studies.
Sanchali Sarkar is a Doctoral Researcher at the Chair of Critical Development Studies at University of Passau in Germany. Her research lies at the intersection of gender, mobility, and migration, with a particular focus on the experiences of the South Asian diaspora in Germany. She is especially interested in how transnational mobility shapes gendered identities, social networks, and the politics of belonging. Her work critically engages with questions of inclusion, representation, and agency in migratory contexts.
Sanchali Sarkar is a Doctoral Researcher at the Chair of Critical Development Studies at University of Passau in Germany. Her research lies at the intersection of gender, mobility, and migration, with a particular focus on the experiences of the South Asian diaspora in Germany. She is especially interested in how transnational mobility shapes gendered identities, social networks, and the politics of belonging. Her work critically engages with questions of inclusion, representation, and agency in migratory contexts.