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Call for papers: Sexual(ities that) progress?
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
Liberal acceptance of diverse sexual practices and identities, particularly in the metropolitan Global North, has widely been framed in the discourse of progress. Such progress is often measured in terms of shifting attitudes to sexual agency especially womens sexual agency and increasing inclusivity and rights gains for LGBTQ people. This discourse has been critiqued, however, and many authors and activists argue that these trajectories of progress are spatially and temporally specific and question their applicability globally. Geographical imaginations of progress often rely on the construction of a homogeneous and antediluvian Global South an imagination that erases both the achievements of activists therein and the continued injustice, violence and oppression in what are imagined as the heartlands of progress in the metropolitan Global North. Discourses of progress have also been challenged on the basis that they tend to normalize particular sexual identities and then to globalize them, for instance in the tying of development aid to recognition of LGBTQ identities.
Building on broader geographical engagements with questions of progress, this session seeks to develop critical insights regarding the relations between progressive politics and the sexual(ities) that progress. We invite speakers to critically interrogate assumptions of progress, and the ideals and models that follow from understandings of certain places as leading the way in terms of sexual and gender inclusions.
Papers are invited that address any of the following points, but this list is not exhaustive:
What counts as progressive sexual politics? How is moving forward constituted and contested? What does not progressing mean?
How are sexualities used to define progress and failure?
How are sexualities mobilized in the production of progressive or failing polities(e.g. nation states, progressive cities)?
How are geographical constructs such as safe spaces and autonomous spaces used in the creation of new progressive politics?
How are progressive sexual politics embodied?
Technological spaces of sexual progress
How do demands for sexual progress touch down in a variety of places, networks and across different spatial scales?
How are ideals and ideas of sexual progress reconstituted through (im)migration, and social differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, class, disability, gender?
Please send titles and 250-word abstracts by October 1, 2016.
Building on broader geographical engagements with questions of progress, this session seeks to develop critical insights regarding the relations between progressive politics and the sexual(ities) that progress. We invite speakers to critically interrogate assumptions of progress, and the ideals and models that follow from understandings of certain places as leading the way in terms of sexual and gender inclusions.
Papers are invited that address any of the following points, but this list is not exhaustive:
What counts as progressive sexual politics? How is moving forward constituted and contested? What does not progressing mean?
How are sexualities used to define progress and failure?
How are sexualities mobilized in the production of progressive or failing polities(e.g. nation states, progressive cities)?
How are geographical constructs such as safe spaces and autonomous spaces used in the creation of new progressive politics?
How are progressive sexual politics embodied?
Technological spaces of sexual progress
How do demands for sexual progress touch down in a variety of places, networks and across different spatial scales?
How are ideals and ideas of sexual progress reconstituted through (im)migration, and social differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, class, disability, gender?
Please send titles and 250-word abstracts by October 1, 2016.
Organizer: American Association of Geographers
E-mail:
k.a.browne@brighton.ac.uk
Submitted by: NIKK
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