Author(s): Onyx Sloan Morgan and Nassim Zand Dizari (editors)
Description:
Human Geography has long analyzed how sexuality and gender are co-constituted in space, place, and over time. Over the last three decades and with the advancement of poststructuralist critiques in geography, queer, feminist, postcolonial, anti-colonial, and critical race theories alongside queer theory have pushed Geography’s preoccupation with sexuality beyond the homo/heterosexual divide to instead consider how geographies are queer(ed). Despite the proliferation of queer geographies in recent years, no handbook or dictionary exists that defines key terms and their use in relation queer geographies. In Winter 2025, UBC Okanagan’s ‘Queer Geographies’ class (GEOG/GWST 426) set out to create a handbook that can guide current and future queer geographers on the evolution and understanding of key terms. Having built a foundational for how queer geographies have emerged, we have approached this exercise to foreground key themes that focus on systemic, normative, and material concepts that are often profiled by 2SLGBTQ+ geographers and queer scholars of colour. This handbook is a direct result from these exercises and, we hope, the first version of a living and evolving document that shares key topics in queer geographies!
Item Type:
Web Resource
Subject Area: Social Sciences
Faculty/Department:
Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Social Sciences
License Type:
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Audience:
General Education; Undergraduate Lower Division; Undergraduate Upper Division
Technical Format:
Language:
English
Development Location:
UBCO
Keywords:
queer geographies, intersectionality, sexuality and space, critical geography
