Rendering a neighbourhood queer

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3977425
AutoresAlison L Bain (0000-0003-2221-0044, York University), William J Payne (0000-0002-5323-8771, York University), William Payne (0000-0002-1051-406X), Jaclyn Isen, Jaclyn A Isen (University of Toronto)
Año2015
Volumen16
Número4
Páginas424-443
Fecha de publicación2015-05-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2014.991750
OpenAlexW2096734192
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas40

This paper traces, and is the traces of, a collective project to render a neighbourhood queer. It is a project that emerges from queer social relations. Academic research and knowledge generation are approached collaboratively by working with queer-identified residents from west-central neighbourhoods in Toronto, Canada who volunteered with the Queer West ShOUT Youth Program. Within the context of two participant-facilitated discussion events, we discursively and artistically investigate queer world-making in the neighbourhood of West Queen West. Through collective mental mapping and photovoice renderings we interpret the queering of urban space as a queer utopian impulse. We critically examine the 'concrete utopia' of Queer West Village and question its resonance in the lives of ShOUT volunteers. Theoretically inspired by Muñoz, our 'a/r/tographic' mode of inquiry and critical praxis are a rendering of 'queer futurity.' We draw on our past to critique our lived present so as to imagine future potentialities. We do so in order to argue that it is vital that the queerness we individually and collectively strive for at the spatial scale of the neighbourhood, such as the process of place-making itself, is grounded in material experience yet remains provisional and an ideality that motivates us

Art · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Photovoice · Political science · Praxis · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Urban Planning and Governance