Queer Geographies

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'Quite simply, this volume queers queer-geography. As it well should. Through the imbricated themes of reorientation, relationality, re-placement, and reconceptualization this compelling book critiques and challenges, but it also proposes new and alternative futures. It is an outstanding collection.' -- Michael Brown, University of Washington, USA 'Queer geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives is as much about queer geographies as it is about the geographies that shape our understanding of the complexities of queerness. This empirically and intellectually rich anthology jointly edited by Alison L. Bain, Julie A. Podmore, and Chan Arun-Pina transforms scholarship on queer geographies through four provocative pillars: reorientations that unsettle tropes such as the closet metaphor; relationalities that probe queer kinship against systematic forces including racial capitalism; socio-spatial replacements that question intimacies in digitally networked spaces and the peripheries of 'queerurbia'; and reconceptualisations that reconfigure disciplinary boundaries and deconstruct binaries between queer human and non-human geographies. The collection offers thoughtful treatises about various geographies, temporalities, and positionalities beyond Anglo-American hegemonies - from migrants' perspectives of Copenhagen Pride to transnational narratives of LGBTQ+ liveabilities across India and Ireland, Toronto's queer punk and rave scenes, to digital racism among gay Swedish men. Alongside Arun-Pina's "trans-imaging" interventions for each chapter contribution, this concerted effort proffers, indeed, contending perspectives that chart "queerer disciplinary futures". This book belongs on the shelves of anyone who wants to understand more of queer worlds and selves.' -- Martin Zebracki, Professor of Human Geography and Social Inclusion, University of Leeds, UK 'This powerful and provocative book brings forward new lines of queer geographical inquiry and debate. Beautifully illustrated, the original artwork visually represents and introduces each chapter. The result is a stunning collection of chapters which reorient, relate, replace, and reconceptualize queer geographies. The chapters amplify queer and trans voices visually, multi-textually and artistically. There is no other queer geography collection like it!' -- Lynda Johnston, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand