David K Seitz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 254837 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David K Seitz |
| NOMBRES | David K |
| APELLIDO | Seitz |
| FIRMA | SEITZ D K |
| AFILIACIONES | Harvey Mudd College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0098-9037 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Violent Utopia
Christian cosmopolitanism
Yimbyism and the economies of fantasy
This article makes a cultural-geographical contribution to the growing critique of ‘Yes in My Back Yard’ or ‘YIMBY’ movements, which invoke (neo)liberal supply-side economics to advocate for increased urban housing production as a means of resolving a host of social and environmental crises. The article argues for a turn to affect theory and psychoanalysis as supplements to critical political economy that can help more fully explain the appeal of…
"Mahler and Migrants on the "Final Frontier
Hollywood science fiction’s predilection for Western classical music has been critiqued for presenting such music as the unrivalled apex of human cultural achievement. Building on such critiques, this article seeks to unsettle the apparent homogeneity and solidity of the canon from within. It turns to Palestinian American literary theorist Edward W. Said’s famous notion of contrapuntal reading, a method for tracking counterhegemonic appropriation…
The Queer 1990s
We live in a moment when the cultural and political legacies of the 1990s are subject to frequent and contentious reassessment. From one angle, the 1990s are “back,” as tastemakers both earnestly and cynically cater to the nostalgia of a generation of “nineties kids,” some of whom are now equipped with modest consumer power, by proclaiming a return to the era's pop-cultural aesthetics. Yet 1990s nostalgia can also take on special valences for LGB…
Navigating STEMification for critical geography educators
This paper grapples with the challenges posed to critical geography educators by STEMification, or the enshrinement of market-oriented forms of science and technology education as the normative ideal for education in general. In both reactionary and progressive contexts, STEMification decontextualizes scientific and technological activity and deepens existing hierarchies of knowledge based on quantification, perceived scientific rigour, commercia…
Encountering Berlant part one
In Part 1 of 'Encountering Berlant', we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter with their work, demonstrating how a concept, idea, or style disrupts something, opens up a new possibility, or simply invites thinking otherwise. The encounters range across the incredible body of w…
A wizard of disquietude in our midst
This article invites critical geographers to reconsider the conceptual offerings of Austrian-British object-relations psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882-1960), whose metapsychology has had a significant but largely unacknowledged contemporary influence on the field via theorists like Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Lauren Berlant. Excavating the Kleinian genealogies of Sedgwick's concept of "reparative reading" and Berlant's notion of "cruel optimism," …
Migration Is Not a Crime
Created in 1957, the well-known English children’s book character Paddington Bear is the product of a dizzying number of displacements. Author Michael Bond (1926–2017) was inspired to make Paddington an undocumented migrant by World War II and Cold War mass evacuations in Europe, but he transposed Paddington’s origins to the troped space of “Darkest Africa” only to relocate them to “Darkest Peru.” Fleeing earthquake for England, Bond’s ursine pro…
Make this adult mess make sense again
This paper advocates for increased scholarly curiosity about the painful and hopeful psychic agency of children and youth in critiquing neoliberal urban gentrification and imagining alternative forms of city life. It performs a geographically and theoretically informed reading of American director Ira Sachs’ 2016 film Little Men, a story about a brief but intense childhood friendship that is ended by an eviction. Drawing on the gentrification and…
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and the difference geography makes
Ruez and Cockayne point out that queer theorist Eve Sedgwick’s reflections on paranoid and reparative readings accompanying one another came directly out of her queer political as well as textual practice in the U.S. Wrongly dismissed as mundane, this crucial contextualizing work is something geographers do especially well. Indeed, understanding the context for Sedgwick’s theories of paranoid and reparative reading is vital as we reflect on how h…
Playing with Star Trek in the critical geography classroom
This paper reflects on the classroom use of the Star Trek American science fiction television franchise to teach critical and emotional geographies to undergraduates specializing in science, technology, education, and mathematics (STEM). Both science fiction and STEM education are ambivalent and contradictory scenes of social reproduction, extending a promise of social transformation, but often maintaining complicity in heteropatriarchy, racial c…
You're stuffed, bear!’
As academic geographers continue to investigate popular geographical knowledges and imaginations beyond the bounds of academic publications, less attention has been given to moments when popular geographies reverse the gaze, expressly lifting the curtain on the production of knowledge by those of us who call ourselves professional geographers. What could turning to popular culture tell professional geographers about perceptions of our discipline,…
Introduction
The psychic life of gentrification
Following the lead of artists and scholars in Black, feminist, psychoanalytic, and queer studies and geographies, this special issue and editorial call for greater scholarly attention to the conscious and unconscious emotional, psychic, and affective dimensions of urban gentrification. While geographical scholarship frequently gestures to gentrification as an affective scene, these connections are generally suggested rather than developed. We arg…
A house of prayer for all people
“Missing” Racialized Violence, Disturbing Continuities
This article argues that media coverage of the 2010–17 Toronto gay village homicides avoids one of the central patterns in the case: the murderous aggression of a white gay man, Bruce McArthur, against racialized men, most of them from the Middle East or South Asia. It argues that even coverage that is sensitive to intersectionality tends to treat race, class, and immigration status as secondary to sexual orientation, making racialized queer migr…
It's Not About You
Increasingly popular in the neoliberal university, community-engaged service-learning (CESL) courses offer rich yet contradictory opportunities for LGBTQ studies students to synthesize queer critiques of community and identity with experiences in LGBTQ communities. Much CESL scholarship has focused on the tensions between benefits to community and to students, prioritizing either radical social change or student satisfaction. Beside such debates,…
Looking for Pei Lim's penis
This article considers the salience of Freud’s account of melancholia – one that points to the constitutive role of loss in subject formation – for understanding the racialization of queer sexuality and its mediation in pornography. Scholars have long and insightfully demonstrated the value of melancholia as an interpretive lens for making sense of the dynamics of racialization in the context of the contradictions of liberalism in the Global Nort…
Protect Wisconsin Families”? Rethinking Left Family Values in the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising
This article seeks to rethink the trope of the “working family” so prevalent in contemporary politics, with particular attention to its promise and constitutive limits for the Left. It takes up contemporary socialist, feminist, anti‐racist and queer scholarship on the discourse of family, bringing it to bear on the case of “working family” rhetoric in the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising against austerity and public‐sector union‐busting. Reckoning with th…
A House of Prayer for All People
David K. Seitz maps the affective dimensions of the politics of citizenship at one large LGBT church, focusing on debates on race and gender in religious leadership, activism around police–minority relations, outreach to LGBT Christians transnationally, and advocacy for asylum seekers. Through cultural geography, queer of color critique, psychoanalysis, and affect theory, he stages reparative encounters with citizenship and religion.
Second Skin, white masks
Limbo life in Canada's waiting room
This paper puts queer theory's "subjectless critique" of identity to work in challenging the state's biopolitical use of essential, authentic identities in asylum law and practice. It not only builds upon, but also departs from existing scholarship that calls on state actors to recognize a wider range of forms of gender and sexual diversity that make people vulnerable to persecution. By contrast, I investigate how the practices of "destination" c…
The Trouble With Flag Wars
Critical urban theory (CUT) provides intellectual support for a politics of the right to the city. However, CUT has rarely engaged with the rich scholarship on sexuality and the urban, much of which directly addresses questions of social justice. CUT has most often treated sexuality as an attribute, rather than a diffuse discourse of subject-producing power intimately connected with race, class and gender. This article highlights two strands in c…
Spaces between us
Limbo life in Canada's waiting room
This paper puts queer theory's "subjectless critique" of identity to work in challenging the state's biopolitical use of essential, authentic identities in asylum law and practice. It not only builds upon, but also departs from existing scholarship that calls on state actors to recognize a wider range of forms of gender and sexual diversity that make people vulnerable to persecution. By contrast, I investigate how the practices of "destination" c…
Encountering Berlant part one
In Part 1 of 'Encountering Berlant', we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter with their work, demonstrating how a concept, idea, or style disrupts something, opens up a new possibility, or simply invites thinking otherwise. The encounters range across the incredible body of w…
You're stuffed, bear!’
As academic geographers continue to investigate popular geographical knowledges and imaginations beyond the bounds of academic publications, less attention has been given to moments when popular geographies reverse the gaze, expressly lifting the curtain on the production of knowledge by those of us who call ourselves professional geographers. What could turning to popular culture tell professional geographers about perceptions of our discipline,…
The psychic life of gentrification
Following the lead of artists and scholars in Black, feminist, psychoanalytic, and queer studies and geographies, this special issue and editorial call for greater scholarly attention to the conscious and unconscious emotional, psychic, and affective dimensions of urban gentrification. While geographical scholarship frequently gestures to gentrification as an affective scene, these connections are generally suggested rather than developed. We arg…
The Trouble With Flag Wars
Critical urban theory (CUT) provides intellectual support for a politics of the right to the city. However, CUT has rarely engaged with the rich scholarship on sexuality and the urban, much of which directly addresses questions of social justice. CUT has most often treated sexuality as an attribute, rather than a diffuse discourse of subject-producing power intimately connected with race, class and gender. This article highlights two strands in c…
Make this adult mess make sense again
This paper advocates for increased scholarly curiosity about the painful and hopeful psychic agency of children and youth in critiquing neoliberal urban gentrification and imagining alternative forms of city life. It performs a geographically and theoretically informed reading of American director Ira Sachs’ 2016 film Little Men, a story about a brief but intense childhood friendship that is ended by an eviction. Drawing on the gentrification and…
Playing with Star Trek in the critical geography classroom
This paper reflects on the classroom use of the Star Trek American science fiction television franchise to teach critical and emotional geographies to undergraduates specializing in science, technology, education, and mathematics (STEM). Both science fiction and STEM education are ambivalent and contradictory scenes of social reproduction, extending a promise of social transformation, but often maintaining complicity in heteropatriarchy, racial c…
"Mahler and Migrants on the "Final Frontier
Hollywood science fiction’s predilection for Western classical music has been critiqued for presenting such music as the unrivalled apex of human cultural achievement. Building on such critiques, this article seeks to unsettle the apparent homogeneity and solidity of the canon from within. It turns to Palestinian American literary theorist Edward W. Said’s famous notion of contrapuntal reading, a method for tracking counterhegemonic appropriation…
Navigating STEMification for critical geography educators
This paper grapples with the challenges posed to critical geography educators by STEMification, or the enshrinement of market-oriented forms of science and technology education as the normative ideal for education in general. In both reactionary and progressive contexts, STEMification decontextualizes scientific and technological activity and deepens existing hierarchies of knowledge based on quantification, perceived scientific rigour, commercia…
A wizard of disquietude in our midst
This article invites critical geographers to reconsider the conceptual offerings of Austrian-British object-relations psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882-1960), whose metapsychology has had a significant but largely unacknowledged contemporary influence on the field via theorists like Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Lauren Berlant. Excavating the Kleinian genealogies of Sedgwick's concept of "reparative reading" and Berlant's notion of "cruel optimism," …
Migration Is Not a Crime
Created in 1957, the well-known English children’s book character Paddington Bear is the product of a dizzying number of displacements. Author Michael Bond (1926–2017) was inspired to make Paddington an undocumented migrant by World War II and Cold War mass evacuations in Europe, but he transposed Paddington’s origins to the troped space of “Darkest Africa” only to relocate them to “Darkest Peru.” Fleeing earthquake for England, Bond’s ursine pro…
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and the difference geography makes
Ruez and Cockayne point out that queer theorist Eve Sedgwick’s reflections on paranoid and reparative readings accompanying one another came directly out of her queer political as well as textual practice in the U.S. Wrongly dismissed as mundane, this crucial contextualizing work is something geographers do especially well. Indeed, understanding the context for Sedgwick’s theories of paranoid and reparative reading is vital as we reflect on how h…
Spaces between us
The Trouble With Flag Wars
Critical urban theory (CUT) provides intellectual support for a politics of the right to the city. However, CUT has rarely engaged with the rich scholarship on sexuality and the urban, much of which directly addresses questions of social justice. CUT has most often treated sexuality as an attribute, rather than a diffuse discourse of subject-producing power intimately connected with race, class and gender. This article highlights two strands in c…
A House of Prayer for All People
David K. Seitz maps the affective dimensions of the politics of citizenship at one large LGBT church, focusing on debates on race and gender in religious leadership, activism around police–minority relations, outreach to LGBT Christians transnationally, and advocacy for asylum seekers. Through cultural geography, queer of color critique, psychoanalysis, and affect theory, he stages reparative encounters with citizenship and religion.
Second Skin, white masks
Limbo life in Canada's waiting room
This paper puts queer theory's "subjectless critique" of identity to work in challenging the state's biopolitical use of essential, authentic identities in asylum law and practice. It not only builds upon, but also departs from existing scholarship that calls on state actors to recognize a wider range of forms of gender and sexual diversity that make people vulnerable to persecution. By contrast, I investigate how the practices of "destination" c…
Looking for Pei Lim's penis
This article considers the salience of Freud’s account of melancholia – one that points to the constitutive role of loss in subject formation – for understanding the racialization of queer sexuality and its mediation in pornography. Scholars have long and insightfully demonstrated the value of melancholia as an interpretive lens for making sense of the dynamics of racialization in the context of the contradictions of liberalism in the Global Nort…
Protect Wisconsin Families”? Rethinking Left Family Values in the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising
This article seeks to rethink the trope of the “working family” so prevalent in contemporary politics, with particular attention to its promise and constitutive limits for the Left. It takes up contemporary socialist, feminist, anti‐racist and queer scholarship on the discourse of family, bringing it to bear on the case of “working family” rhetoric in the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising against austerity and public‐sector union‐busting. Reckoning with th…
A house of prayer for all people
“Missing” Racialized Violence, Disturbing Continuities
This article argues that media coverage of the 2010–17 Toronto gay village homicides avoids one of the central patterns in the case: the murderous aggression of a white gay man, Bruce McArthur, against racialized men, most of them from the Middle East or South Asia. It argues that even coverage that is sensitive to intersectionality tends to treat race, class, and immigration status as secondary to sexual orientation, making racialized queer migr…
It's Not About You
Increasingly popular in the neoliberal university, community-engaged service-learning (CESL) courses offer rich yet contradictory opportunities for LGBTQ studies students to synthesize queer critiques of community and identity with experiences in LGBTQ communities. Much CESL scholarship has focused on the tensions between benefits to community and to students, prioritizing either radical social change or student satisfaction. Beside such debates,…
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and the difference geography makes
Ruez and Cockayne point out that queer theorist Eve Sedgwick’s reflections on paranoid and reparative readings accompanying one another came directly out of her queer political as well as textual practice in the U.S. Wrongly dismissed as mundane, this crucial contextualizing work is something geographers do especially well. Indeed, understanding the context for Sedgwick’s theories of paranoid and reparative reading is vital as we reflect on how h…
Playing with Star Trek in the critical geography classroom
This paper reflects on the classroom use of the Star Trek American science fiction television franchise to teach critical and emotional geographies to undergraduates specializing in science, technology, education, and mathematics (STEM). Both science fiction and STEM education are ambivalent and contradictory scenes of social reproduction, extending a promise of social transformation, but often maintaining complicity in heteropatriarchy, racial c…
You're stuffed, bear!’
As academic geographers continue to investigate popular geographical knowledges and imaginations beyond the bounds of academic publications, less attention has been given to moments when popular geographies reverse the gaze, expressly lifting the curtain on the production of knowledge by those of us who call ourselves professional geographers. What could turning to popular culture tell professional geographers about perceptions of our discipline,…
Introduction
The psychic life of gentrification
Following the lead of artists and scholars in Black, feminist, psychoanalytic, and queer studies and geographies, this special issue and editorial call for greater scholarly attention to the conscious and unconscious emotional, psychic, and affective dimensions of urban gentrification. While geographical scholarship frequently gestures to gentrification as an affective scene, these connections are generally suggested rather than developed. We arg…
Migration Is Not a Crime
Created in 1957, the well-known English children’s book character Paddington Bear is the product of a dizzying number of displacements. Author Michael Bond (1926–2017) was inspired to make Paddington an undocumented migrant by World War II and Cold War mass evacuations in Europe, but he transposed Paddington’s origins to the troped space of “Darkest Africa” only to relocate them to “Darkest Peru.” Fleeing earthquake for England, Bond’s ursine pro…
Make this adult mess make sense again
This paper advocates for increased scholarly curiosity about the painful and hopeful psychic agency of children and youth in critiquing neoliberal urban gentrification and imagining alternative forms of city life. It performs a geographically and theoretically informed reading of American director Ira Sachs’ 2016 film Little Men, a story about a brief but intense childhood friendship that is ended by an eviction. Drawing on the gentrification and…
The Queer 1990s
We live in a moment when the cultural and political legacies of the 1990s are subject to frequent and contentious reassessment. From one angle, the 1990s are “back,” as tastemakers both earnestly and cynically cater to the nostalgia of a generation of “nineties kids,” some of whom are now equipped with modest consumer power, by proclaiming a return to the era's pop-cultural aesthetics. Yet 1990s nostalgia can also take on special valences for LGB…
Navigating STEMification for critical geography educators
This paper grapples with the challenges posed to critical geography educators by STEMification, or the enshrinement of market-oriented forms of science and technology education as the normative ideal for education in general. In both reactionary and progressive contexts, STEMification decontextualizes scientific and technological activity and deepens existing hierarchies of knowledge based on quantification, perceived scientific rigour, commercia…
Encountering Berlant part one
In Part 1 of 'Encountering Berlant', we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter with their work, demonstrating how a concept, idea, or style disrupts something, opens up a new possibility, or simply invites thinking otherwise. The encounters range across the incredible body of w…
A wizard of disquietude in our midst
This article invites critical geographers to reconsider the conceptual offerings of Austrian-British object-relations psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882-1960), whose metapsychology has had a significant but largely unacknowledged contemporary influence on the field via theorists like Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Lauren Berlant. Excavating the Kleinian genealogies of Sedgwick's concept of "reparative reading" and Berlant's notion of "cruel optimism," …
Christian cosmopolitanism
Yimbyism and the economies of fantasy
This article makes a cultural-geographical contribution to the growing critique of ‘Yes in My Back Yard’ or ‘YIMBY’ movements, which invoke (neo)liberal supply-side economics to advocate for increased urban housing production as a means of resolving a host of social and environmental crises. The article argues for a turn to affect theory and psychoanalysis as supplements to critical political economy that can help more fully explain the appeal of…
"Mahler and Migrants on the "Final Frontier
Hollywood science fiction’s predilection for Western classical music has been critiqued for presenting such music as the unrivalled apex of human cultural achievement. Building on such critiques, this article seeks to unsettle the apparent homogeneity and solidity of the canon from within. It turns to Palestinian American literary theorist Edward W. Said’s famous notion of contrapuntal reading, a method for tracking counterhegemonic appropriation…
Violent Utopia
Sociology (21 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Gender Studies (15 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Politics (14 obras) · Art (11 obras) · Queer (11 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Law (9 obras)