J Binnie
Biographic Data
| ID | 13020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Binnie |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Binnie |
| SIGNATURE | BINNIE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6217-7774 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 711 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Food practices, queer social reproduction and the geographies of LGBTQ+ activism
This article examines the role of food practices –namely, the sharing of food – in the production of political solidarity within spaces of LGBTQ + activism. We suggest that focusing on food practices can help us understand how care and pleasure underpin the politics of solidarity. Drawing on two multi-site qualitative research projects on transnational activism around LGBTQ cultural and political events in Poland and a comparative study of queer …
Homing desires: Transnational queer migrants negotiating homes and homelands in Scotland
A vast literature on the home across sociology, human geography and cognate disciplines has mapped out home as a messy conceptual terrain. Critical perspectives have theorised home as simultaneously imaginative and material, and argued for the importance to pay attention to both dimensions. Following in this tradition, empirical research has explored how 'home' is understood, imagined and experienced in everyday life, and how imagery and experien…
Globalization, Sexuality and
Defined broadly, globalization refers to the increase in the movement of financial goods, products, labor, people, and ideas across national boundaries. Although theorists disagree about its origin and its significance in contemporary society, most agree that globalization involves the increased interconnectedness of individuals, capital, and materials. It has been made possible by technological advancements in communication and travel. Sexuality…
The politics of age and generation at the Gaze International LGBT Film Festival in Dublin
Despite their global proliferation, queer film festivals, like film festivals more broadly, are somewhat understudied within the social sciences. This is despite scholarship within film studies that argues that they are significant sites of queer collectivity and sociality. This article examines queer film festivals as sites for the production of community and queer bonds. The authors argue that questions of age, temporality and intergenerational…
Researching Transnational Activism around LGBTQ Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Activist Solidarities and Spatial Imaginings
This chapter examines the transnational dimensions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) politics and activism in Poland. It focuses on the discussion of transnational activist solidarities together by focusing on their spatial politics. It traces the main contexts for the project, and discusses how one's undertook the research. The chapter focuses on one key aspect of the project namely the concept of solidarity, how it has be…
Critical queer regionality and LGBTQ politics in Europe
This article examines what a critical focus on the region can contribute to the study of LGBTQ politics in Europe. It is argued that a regional lens can challenge methodological nationalism in existing studies of European LGBTQ politics. It can also contribute towards a broader examination of the politics of scale in relation to the Europeanisation of LGBTQ politics. The article discusses alternative theoretical approaches to the region and exami…
Relational Comparison and LGBTQ Activism in E uropean Cities
This article examines the role of city twinning as a device for conducting transnational activism around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer ( LGBTQ ) politics. It focuses on the city of L eiden in the N etherlands, examining how the city's twinning links with the cities of T orun in P oland and O xford in the UK have been used at different times as a device to mobilize transnational solidarities with LGBTQ people outside of the N ether…
Relational Comparison, Queer Urbanism and Worlding Cities
Urban studies have recently witnessed a revival of critical interest in comparison, situated within a broader postcolonial critique of the parochialism of (Western) urban theory. However, recent discussions of the comparative within urban studies have tended to neglect sexual politics, despite the emergence of a significant body of work on the queer politics of comparison. Urban research on sexualities has tended to focus on the territorialisatio…
Urban Space and Homosexuality: The Example of the Marais, Paris’ ‘Gay Ghetto’
Queer as Folk: Producing the Real of Urban Space - 1
Neoliberalism, Class, Gender and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Politics in Poland”
Like a Bomb in the Gasoline Station: East-West Migration and Transnational Activism around Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Politics in Poland
This article examines the relationship between East-West migration in Europe and activism around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) politics in Poland. EU accession in 2004 was accompanied by an intensification of homophobia in Polish political discourse particularly associated with neo-populist Radical Right parties such as Law and Justice and the League of Polish Families. Marches for the tolerance and equality of lesbians, g…
The Politics of Age, Temporality and Intergenerationality in Transnational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Activist Networks
Age, temporality and intergenerationality have often been neglected in debates on intersectionality within sexuality studies. This article contributes towards these debates by examining how age and generation operate within transnational activism around LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer politics) in Poland. Drawing on interviews with activists in Poland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK, this article examines age an…
Solidarities and tensions: Feminism and transnational LGBTQ politics in Poland
This article explores the significance of feminism in transnational activism around LGBTQ protest events, namely equality marches and associated festivals in Kraków, Poznań and Warsaw in Poland. The arguments advanced in this article are based on a multi-method qualitative research project focusing on transnational cooperation in the planning and realization of LGBTQ protest events in Poland, conducted in the years 2008–2009. The authors highligh…
Class, sexuality and space: A comment
Because It Was a Bit Like Going to an Adventure Park: The Politics of Hospitality in Transnational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Activist Networks
This article explores the overlaps between tourism and forms of political activism. The authors examine the politics of hospitality and solidarity within transnational lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer activist networks formed to combat homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in Poland. Based on interviews with participants in the March for Tolerance in Krakow - the city's annual tolerance and equality march - the authors argue that ques…
Reading Andrew Tucker's Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town
Locating Economics within Sexuality Studies
Globalization, Sexuality and
The globalization of sexuality refers to the sexualized and embodied nature of processes associated with the movement of people, capital, and goods across national boundaries. It also refers to how the consciousness of the world as a single place is sexualized. The globalization of sexuality is manifest in a range of processes and phenomena that are often couched and approached in highly emotive terms (e.g., the trafficking of women into prostitu…
Mundane mobilities, banal travels: Editorial
All of us are caught up in banal or mundane mobilities, whether it is the walk to the bus stop and catching the bus to town, the daily commute by train to work, the trip by car to the supermarket
Cosmopolitan Urbanism
Geographies of sexual citizenship
The Globalization of Sexuality
What are the relations between homosexuality, globalization and social theory? Why has the debate on globalization paid so little attention to questions of sexuality? This text provides answers to these questions by exploring the relationships between the national state, globalization and sexual dissidence
Queer as Folk: Producing the Real of Urban Space
This paper is about the construction of space and place in the urban imaginary. It draws on multidisciplinary empirical research—on Violence, Sexuality and Space—conducted in a place that was simultaneously represented in one of the most controversial programmes ever to be screened on British television— Queer as Folk. As the television programme intervened in the responses from the interviews and focus groups, we begin, through an exploration of…
Authenticating Queer Space: Citizenship, Urbanism and Governance
The focus of this paper is the impact of the 'new urban order' on sexualised spaces in cities. The paper explores how sexual 'others' are conscripted into the process of urban transformation and, by turn, how city branding has become part of the sexual citizenship agenda. The interweaving of urban governance and sexual citizenship agendas produces particular kinds of sexual spaces, at the exclusion of other kinds. The paper considers the extent t…
Cosmopolitan Knowledge and the Production and Consumption of Sexualized Space: Manchester's Gay Village
According to }i~ek (1997) the logic of late capitalism offers opportunities for the incorporation of previously marginalised groups, whilst simultaneously dividing them at the same time. These possibilities for incorporation create divisions on the basis of gender, race, sexuality and class. Here, we examine how the capitalist desire for opening new markets for leisure consumption with new forms of branding, alongside the desire for the territori…
Authenticating Queer Space: Citizenship, Urbanism and Governance
The focus of this paper is the impact of the 'new urban order' on sexualised spaces in cities. The paper explores how sexual 'others' are conscripted into the process of urban transformation and, by turn, how city branding has become part of the sexual citizenship agenda. The interweaving of urban governance and sexual citizenship agendas produces particular kinds of sexual spaces, at the exclusion of other kinds. The paper considers the extent t…
All hyped up and no place to go
In this paper we think about the performance of sexual identities in space, and try to explore the notions of transgression and parody implicit in recent queer theory, particularly in the work of Judith Butler. To do this, we take a long hard look at two current dissident sexual identities—the hypermasculine ‘gay skinhead’ and the hyperfeminine ‘lipstick lesbian’. We describe their evolution as sexual‐outlaw styles of the 1990s, and assess the ef…
Coming out of Geography: Towards a Queer Epistemology
In this paper I argue that in order to challenge the marginalisation of lesbians, gay men, and other sexual dissidents within the discipline, we need to pay more attention to how geography has been studied. I consider how different theoretical approaches to the subject have treated sexual dissidence. While positivism has been particularly guilty of ignoring the interests of lesbians and gay men, the new cultural geography, and feminist geography,…
Mundane mobilities, banal travels: Editorial
All of us are caught up in banal or mundane mobilities, whether it is the walk to the bus stop and catching the bus to town, the daily commute by train to work, the trip by car to the supermarket
Cosmopolitan Knowledge and the Production and Consumption of Sexualized Space: Manchester's Gay Village
According to }i~ek (1997) the logic of late capitalism offers opportunities for the incorporation of previously marginalised groups, whilst simultaneously dividing them at the same time. These possibilities for incorporation create divisions on the basis of gender, race, sexuality and class. Here, we examine how the capitalist desire for opening new markets for leisure consumption with new forms of branding, alongside the desire for the territori…
Geographies of sexual citizenship
Like a Bomb in the Gasoline Station: East-West Migration and Transnational Activism around Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Politics in Poland
This article examines the relationship between East-West migration in Europe and activism around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) politics in Poland. EU accession in 2004 was accompanied by an intensification of homophobia in Polish political discourse particularly associated with neo-populist Radical Right parties such as Law and Justice and the League of Polish Families. Marches for the tolerance and equality of lesbians, g…
Because It Was a Bit Like Going to an Adventure Park: The Politics of Hospitality in Transnational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Activist Networks
This article explores the overlaps between tourism and forms of political activism. The authors examine the politics of hospitality and solidarity within transnational lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer activist networks formed to combat homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in Poland. Based on interviews with participants in the March for Tolerance in Krakow - the city's annual tolerance and equality march - the authors argue that ques…
Invisible Europeans: Sexual Citizenship in the New Europe
In this paper I consider issues of transnational sexual citizenship. I examine the issue of international migration of lesbians and gay men. For lesbian and gay prospective migrants, obtaining citizenship rights is difficult owing to the laws affording status being based on bloodlines and marriage. This immediately excludes lesbian and gay relationships, which are generally not recognised for the purpose of obtaining rights of residence. I explor…
Queer as Folk: Producing the Real of Urban Space
This paper is about the construction of space and place in the urban imaginary. It draws on multidisciplinary empirical research—on Violence, Sexuality and Space—conducted in a place that was simultaneously represented in one of the most controversial programmes ever to be screened on British television— Queer as Folk. As the television programme intervened in the responses from the interviews and focus groups, we begin, through an exploration of…
Neoliberalism, Class, Gender and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Politics in Poland”
The Politics of Age, Temporality and Intergenerationality in Transnational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Activist Networks
Age, temporality and intergenerationality have often been neglected in debates on intersectionality within sexuality studies. This article contributes towards these debates by examining how age and generation operate within transnational activism around LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer politics) in Poland. Drawing on interviews with activists in Poland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK, this article examines age an…
Relational Comparison, Queer Urbanism and Worlding Cities
Urban studies have recently witnessed a revival of critical interest in comparison, situated within a broader postcolonial critique of the parochialism of (Western) urban theory. However, recent discussions of the comparative within urban studies have tended to neglect sexual politics, despite the emergence of a significant body of work on the queer politics of comparison. Urban research on sexualities has tended to focus on the territorialisatio…
Solidarities and tensions: Feminism and transnational LGBTQ politics in Poland
This article explores the significance of feminism in transnational activism around LGBTQ protest events, namely equality marches and associated festivals in Kraków, Poznań and Warsaw in Poland. The arguments advanced in this article are based on a multi-method qualitative research project focusing on transnational cooperation in the planning and realization of LGBTQ protest events in Poland, conducted in the years 2008–2009. The authors highligh…
Critical queer regionality and LGBTQ politics in Europe
This article examines what a critical focus on the region can contribute to the study of LGBTQ politics in Europe. It is argued that a regional lens can challenge methodological nationalism in existing studies of European LGBTQ politics. It can also contribute towards a broader examination of the politics of scale in relation to the Europeanisation of LGBTQ politics. The article discusses alternative theoretical approaches to the region and exami…
Relational Comparison and LGBTQ Activism in E uropean Cities
This article examines the role of city twinning as a device for conducting transnational activism around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer ( LGBTQ ) politics. It focuses on the city of L eiden in the N etherlands, examining how the city's twinning links with the cities of T orun in P oland and O xford in the UK have been used at different times as a device to mobilize transnational solidarities with LGBTQ people outside of the N ether…
The politics of age and generation at the Gaze International LGBT Film Festival in Dublin
Despite their global proliferation, queer film festivals, like film festivals more broadly, are somewhat understudied within the social sciences. This is despite scholarship within film studies that argues that they are significant sites of queer collectivity and sociality. This article examines queer film festivals as sites for the production of community and queer bonds. The authors argue that questions of age, temporality and intergenerational…
Homing desires: Transnational queer migrants negotiating homes and homelands in Scotland
A vast literature on the home across sociology, human geography and cognate disciplines has mapped out home as a messy conceptual terrain. Critical perspectives have theorised home as simultaneously imaginative and material, and argued for the importance to pay attention to both dimensions. Following in this tradition, empirical research has explored how 'home' is understood, imagined and experienced in everyday life, and how imagery and experien…
Globalization, Sexuality and
The globalization of sexuality refers to the sexualized and embodied nature of processes associated with the movement of people, capital, and goods across national boundaries. It also refers to how the consciousness of the world as a single place is sexualized. The globalization of sexuality is manifest in a range of processes and phenomena that are often couched and approached in highly emotive terms (e.g., the trafficking of women into prostitu…
All hyped up and no place to go
In this paper we think about the performance of sexual identities in space, and try to explore the notions of transgression and parody implicit in recent queer theory, particularly in the work of Judith Butler. To do this, we take a long hard look at two current dissident sexual identities—the hypermasculine ‘gay skinhead’ and the hyperfeminine ‘lipstick lesbian’. We describe their evolution as sexual‐outlaw styles of the 1990s, and assess the ef…
Invisible Europeans: Sexual Citizenship in the New Europe
In this paper I consider issues of transnational sexual citizenship. I examine the issue of international migration of lesbians and gay men. For lesbian and gay prospective migrants, obtaining citizenship rights is difficult owing to the laws affording status being based on bloodlines and marriage. This immediately excludes lesbian and gay relationships, which are generally not recognised for the purpose of obtaining rights of residence. I explor…
Coming out of Geography: Towards a Queer Epistemology
In this paper I argue that in order to challenge the marginalisation of lesbians, gay men, and other sexual dissidents within the discipline, we need to pay more attention to how geography has been studied. I consider how different theoretical approaches to the subject have treated sexual dissidence. While positivism has been particularly guilty of ignoring the interests of lesbians and gay men, the new cultural geography, and feminist geography,…
Geographies of sexuality - a review of progress
Geographies of sexuality - a review of progress
This article examines the recent rapid growth of work on the geographies of sexuality. The authors argue that while sexuality has become an area of considerable interest within social and cultural geography, much remains to be done to tackle homophobia within the discipline as a whole. The article critiques the ease with which sexuality as an object of study has become assimilated into the discipline while homophobia remains deep seated. The auth…
Locating Transnationalism: Agency and Method
The Globalization of Sexuality
What are the relations between homosexuality, globalization and social theory? Why has the debate on globalization paid so little attention to questions of sexuality? This text provides answers to these questions by exploring the relationships between the national state, globalization and sexual dissidence
Queer as Folk: Producing the Real of Urban Space
This paper is about the construction of space and place in the urban imaginary. It draws on multidisciplinary empirical research—on Violence, Sexuality and Space—conducted in a place that was simultaneously represented in one of the most controversial programmes ever to be screened on British television— Queer as Folk. As the television programme intervened in the responses from the interviews and focus groups, we begin, through an exploration of…
Authenticating Queer Space: Citizenship, Urbanism and Governance
The focus of this paper is the impact of the 'new urban order' on sexualised spaces in cities. The paper explores how sexual 'others' are conscripted into the process of urban transformation and, by turn, how city branding has become part of the sexual citizenship agenda. The interweaving of urban governance and sexual citizenship agendas produces particular kinds of sexual spaces, at the exclusion of other kinds. The paper considers the extent t…
Cosmopolitan Knowledge and the Production and Consumption of Sexualized Space: Manchester's Gay Village
According to }i~ek (1997) the logic of late capitalism offers opportunities for the incorporation of previously marginalised groups, whilst simultaneously dividing them at the same time. These possibilities for incorporation create divisions on the basis of gender, race, sexuality and class. Here, we examine how the capitalist desire for opening new markets for leisure consumption with new forms of branding, alongside the desire for the territori…
Cosmopolitan Urbanism
Geographies of sexual citizenship
Globalization, Sexuality and
The globalization of sexuality refers to the sexualized and embodied nature of processes associated with the movement of people, capital, and goods across national boundaries. It also refers to how the consciousness of the world as a single place is sexualized. The globalization of sexuality is manifest in a range of processes and phenomena that are often couched and approached in highly emotive terms (e.g., the trafficking of women into prostitu…
Mundane mobilities, banal travels: Editorial
All of us are caught up in banal or mundane mobilities, whether it is the walk to the bus stop and catching the bus to town, the daily commute by train to work, the trip by car to the supermarket
Locating Economics within Sexuality Studies
Reading Andrew Tucker's Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town
Class, sexuality and space: A comment
Because It Was a Bit Like Going to an Adventure Park: The Politics of Hospitality in Transnational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Activist Networks
This article explores the overlaps between tourism and forms of political activism. The authors examine the politics of hospitality and solidarity within transnational lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer activist networks formed to combat homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in Poland. Based on interviews with participants in the March for Tolerance in Krakow - the city's annual tolerance and equality march - the authors argue that ques…
Solidarities and tensions: Feminism and transnational LGBTQ politics in Poland
This article explores the significance of feminism in transnational activism around LGBTQ protest events, namely equality marches and associated festivals in Kraków, Poznań and Warsaw in Poland. The arguments advanced in this article are based on a multi-method qualitative research project focusing on transnational cooperation in the planning and realization of LGBTQ protest events in Poland, conducted in the years 2008–2009. The authors highligh…
Urban Space and Homosexuality: The Example of the Marais, Paris’ ‘Gay Ghetto’
Queer as Folk: Producing the Real of Urban Space - 1
Neoliberalism, Class, Gender and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Politics in Poland”
Like a Bomb in the Gasoline Station: East-West Migration and Transnational Activism around Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Politics in Poland
This article examines the relationship between East-West migration in Europe and activism around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) politics in Poland. EU accession in 2004 was accompanied by an intensification of homophobia in Polish political discourse particularly associated with neo-populist Radical Right parties such as Law and Justice and the League of Polish Families. Marches for the tolerance and equality of lesbians, g…
The Politics of Age, Temporality and Intergenerationality in Transnational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Activist Networks
Age, temporality and intergenerationality have often been neglected in debates on intersectionality within sexuality studies. This article contributes towards these debates by examining how age and generation operate within transnational activism around LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer politics) in Poland. Drawing on interviews with activists in Poland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK, this article examines age an…
Relational Comparison and LGBTQ Activism in E uropean Cities
This article examines the role of city twinning as a device for conducting transnational activism around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer ( LGBTQ ) politics. It focuses on the city of L eiden in the N etherlands, examining how the city's twinning links with the cities of T orun in P oland and O xford in the UK have been used at different times as a device to mobilize transnational solidarities with LGBTQ people outside of the N ether…
Relational Comparison, Queer Urbanism and Worlding Cities
Urban studies have recently witnessed a revival of critical interest in comparison, situated within a broader postcolonial critique of the parochialism of (Western) urban theory. However, recent discussions of the comparative within urban studies have tended to neglect sexual politics, despite the emergence of a significant body of work on the queer politics of comparison. Urban research on sexualities has tended to focus on the territorialisatio…
Sociology (29 works) · Gender Studies (27 works) · Political science (18 works) · Human sexuality (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · Queer (14 works) · Lesbian (10 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)