[News] Vortrag von Jack Gieseking, 27.4.22, 18-20 Uhr ct. (International Lecture in Cultural Geography, Bonn)

[Kathrin Hörschelmann]

Liebe alle,

wir freuen uns, Jack Gieseking an diesem Mittwoch als Teil unserer International Lecture Series in Cultural Geography an der Universität Bonn bei uns zu haben. Die Vorlesung wird über Zoom zugänglich sein und hat den Titel „Scale Jumping from the Myth of Neighborhood Liberation: When Cis-Metronormativität trifft auf Homonationalismus“.

Alle sind herzlich willkommen sich online um 18:15 Uhr mitteleuropäischer Zeit dazuzuschalten oder auch persönlich vorbei zu kommen.

Zoom Details:
https://uni-bonn.zoom.us/j/92268110531?pwd=NUszNE4wcnp1Q1lZbzNZdVc5VnZMUT09

Meeting-ID: 922 6811 0531
Passcode: 612685

Das Abstrakt ist unten zu sehen und weitere Details im Poster angehängt.

Viele Grüße,
Anna




ABSTRACT
Lgbtq activists, the mainstream media, and my lesbian-queer research
participants in New York City alike often present a limited, territorial
  geographical imagination of "lgbtq spaces." While my lesbian-queer
participants were quick to describe their central lgbtq spaces as
gayborhoods, they then described how these neighborhoods failed to meet
their needs while blaming themselves for these areas' demise.
Unmentioned was the fact that lesbians and queers fail to attain or
retain these spaces over generations-often due to lesser political and
economic power. In earlier work, I argued that the "myth of neighborhood
  liberation" leads to generational cycles of lesbians and queers as
gentrifiers and gentrified, wherein they are taken in by and reproduce
mainstream homonormative narratives of (white and well-off) their lives
made "better" and "legitimate" through property ownership. But what
happens when we shift scales to place the myth of queer urban salvation
at the scale of the gayborhood to contrast the rural, supposedly
anti-lgbtq landscape with that of the cosmopolitan and ultra "civilized"
  city? In this talk, I work across scales to examine the relationship
between the myth of urban neighborhood liberation and the myth of the
ever-unwelcoming, "backward" rural US South. Drawing on a 15-year media
analysis, multi-generational interviews with lesbians and queers, and
organizational records and periodicals from various LGBTQ archives, I
situate the work on lesbian-queer place-making in conversation with the
scholarship around homonationalism, I present the idea of
cis-metronormativity. Cis-metronormativity expands on Halberstam's
(2005) notion of metronormativity and Puar's (2007) concept of
homonationalism to articulate the ways mainstream media, politicians,
and corporations portray white, middle-class lesbians, bisexuals, queers,
and trans people as cosmopolitan citizens in these spaces.
Cis-metronormativity requires a regional and multiscalar study across
the US to articulare the political and economic practices that assert
urban cosmopolitanism and civilization, which therefore reify the
racist, settler, and capitalist city.

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Dr. Anna Schliehe
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
AG Kulturgeographie | Geographisches Institut Universität Bonn | 
Meckenheimer Allee 176 53115 Bonn |
Email: anna.schliehe at uni-bonn.de
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Research Group Crime and Carcerality | Carl von Ossietzky Universität 
Oldenburg |  Fakultät I, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften | Ammerländer 
Heerstr. 114 – 118 |26129 Oldenburg
Email: anna.schliehe at uol.de
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University of Cambridge | Sidgwick Avenue CB3 9DA Cambridge |
Email: aks79 at cam.ac.uk
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