Queer(ing) Urban Space

Histories, Tactics, Futures in a Glocal World
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74838-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 351, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Albrecht, Jessica

Sarkar, Sanchali

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

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.