Queer(ing) Urban Space
Histories, Tactics, Futures in a Glocal World
Will be published approx. on 29. January 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
202 pages
979-8-88890-925-6 (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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
979-8-88890-925-6 (9798888909256)
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Persons
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.
Content
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
1 Introduction
?Jessica A. Albrecht and Sanchali Sarkar
Part 1 Creating the Queer in Urban Space
2 Pinay Femmes Dwelling in Hesitation: Spatiality Tactics in Urban Manila
?Claudia C. Lodia
3 "Only Northeast Contact": Navigating the Racialisation of Northeast Indians on Gay Dating Apps in Delhi
?Lobsang Norbu Bhutia
4 Breaking the Surface: Unveiling Water Security Along the Gender Spectrum in Urban Landscapes
?Subham Mukherjee and Trude Sundberg
Part 2 Disrupted Space
5 Challenging "the Queer": Elite Girls' Schools as Queer Heterotopias in Urban Sri Lanka
?Jessica A. Albrecht
6 Can a Feminist City Be More than Gender-Just? Assessment Through the Lens of India
?Srestha Chatterjee
7 London Liberties: the Metropolis Through the Eyes of Victorian Writer Amy Levy
?Ruth Quante
Part 3 Queer Desires and Futures
8 Spaces of Minoritised Epistemologies
?Maya Nitis
9 Towards the Liberation of 'Terf Island'? a Phenomenological Approach to Gender(s) and Space(s) in Britain
?Paul Thompson
Index
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
1 Introduction
?Jessica A. Albrecht and Sanchali Sarkar
Part 1 Creating the Queer in Urban Space
2 Pinay Femmes Dwelling in Hesitation: Spatiality Tactics in Urban Manila
?Claudia C. Lodia
3 "Only Northeast Contact": Navigating the Racialisation of Northeast Indians on Gay Dating Apps in Delhi
?Lobsang Norbu Bhutia
4 Breaking the Surface: Unveiling Water Security Along the Gender Spectrum in Urban Landscapes
?Subham Mukherjee and Trude Sundberg
Part 2 Disrupted Space
5 Challenging "the Queer": Elite Girls' Schools as Queer Heterotopias in Urban Sri Lanka
?Jessica A. Albrecht
6 Can a Feminist City Be More than Gender-Just? Assessment Through the Lens of India
?Srestha Chatterjee
7 London Liberties: the Metropolis Through the Eyes of Victorian Writer Amy Levy
?Ruth Quante
Part 3 Queer Desires and Futures
8 Spaces of Minoritised Epistemologies
?Maya Nitis
9 Towards the Liberation of 'Terf Island'? a Phenomenological Approach to Gender(s) and Space(s) in Britain
?Paul Thompson
Index