M Zebracki
Biographic Data
| ID | 46563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Zebracki |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Zebracki |
| SIGNATURE | ZEBRACKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0053-2093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The everyday spaces of public transportation: The ‘driving’ case of the city bus in Hong Kong
This paper explores the idea of ‘everyday spaces of public transportation’ through the lived experiences of bus users, both drivers and passengers, while they journey through city spaces. We bring scholarship on urban bus travel and the power relations that structure this process in dialogue with an empirical case study on Hong Kong. We present an analysis of interviews supplemented with the first author’s auto-ethnographic observations as a bus …
The queer afterlives of public art: The spaces and times of Warsaw’s Tęcza (Rainbow)
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology
This article examines creative writing (CW) as a place-based methodology for doing and analysing fieldwork. Drawing insights from CW scholarship and workshops as part of a collaborative project, we contribute new empirically-informed insights from peer researchers about the significance of leveraging emotional connections, detailed attention to lived experiences, and the researcher's experiences in executing and reporting fieldwork. While attendi…
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory
This article delves into queer memorials: public artworks dedicated to, and commonly designed to commemorate, LGBTQ + people’s lives. As part of a broader international multisite project, we present the first comprehensive case-study survey ( N = 343) of its kind, examining how everyday members of the public experience the Amsterdam Homomonument as an inclusive site of memory. As the world’s first publicly commissioned monument inaugurated for th…
Gay monuments in queer times: Amsterdam’s Homomonument and the politics of inclusive social practice
Despite growing debate about the role of monuments in diverse societies, there has been insufficient attention to contestations that have emerged involving ‘gay’ or ‘queer’ monuments. This article examines the politics of inclusion and exclusion that can stem from the social practices that evolve around these monuments, particularly as the imperatives and priorities of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) activism evolve while mo…
The politics of restor(y)ing: Towards a conflictual approach to art in urban public space
This paper investigates the political implications of public art using frameworks of conflict and antagonism.We introduce 'restor(y)ing' as an analytical scaling device for examining public art's potential to destabilise official planning processes and reclaim cities through acts of re-telling (restorying) and re-making (restoring) urban spaces.We probe how commissioned/formal and unsolicited/informal public art practices can concurrently operate…
Inclusive LGBTQ+ fieldwork: Advancing spaces of belonging and safety
Increasing everyday levels of LGBTQ+ phobia and other forms of identity‐based prejudice reveal the need for systematic attention across the versatile geographic discipline to the belonging and safety of LGBTQ+ field researchers. Through an expanded reflection on Bracken and Mawdsley's (2004) account ‘“Muddy glee”: Rounding out the picture of women and physical geography fieldwork’ ( Area , 36, pp. 280–286), we consider the major issues – includin…
Queer Monuments: Visibility, (Counter)actions, Legacy
This article synthesizes original comparative perspectives of visibility, (counter)actions, and legacy regarding queer monuments: public artworks dedicated to, and questioning or queering normativities around, the lives of LGBT+ people. It pursues a dialogic, interdisciplinary, and multisite and intercultural argument, drawing from approaches and preliminary insights from a scholarly project (Queer Memorials) and artist's project (Strange Inherit…
The Landscape of Public Art Research: A Knowledge Map Analysis
This is the first article to date that employs a knowledge map analysis to provide insights into the landscape of public art research, a multidisciplinary area that is concerned with issues around the geographies of art, space, and community. This study uses bibliometric analysis and knowledge visualization tools provided by CiteSpace mapping software to review scholarly journal output on “public art” since 1964—which is the first occurrence of t…
Queer mobilities: Critical LGBTQ perspectives of public transport spaces
This paper combines two case studies from the UK and Israel to question/‘que(e)ry’ LGBTQ people’s travel and mobility behaviours, to explore the issue of ‘queer mobilities’ and related exclusions from heteronormative public transport spaces. Our research demonstrates how the fear of anti-LGBTQ discrimination and violence have profound impacts on LGBTQ people’s travel options and activity spaces. Using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods…
Teaching geographies of sexualities: 20 Years On
This editorial provides an introduction to the Journal of Geography in Higher Education Symposium on “Teaching geographies of sexualities: 20 years on”. This edited collection revisits the Symposium “Teaching sexualities in geography” (Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Volume 23 [1999], Issue 1) and the earlier Arena Symposium essay series “Teaching sexual geographies” (Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Volume 21 [1997], Issue 3).…
Public artivism: Queering Geographies of Migration and Social Inclusivity
This article contributes an original critique at the nexus of public art, activism (i.e. public artivism) and migration alongside the promotion of inclusive change. It pushes at transdisciplinary boundaries by integrating geohumanities scholarship on socially engaged public art whilst adopting a queer theory approach to foreground and interrogate the socially marginalised. The focus is on Schellekens & Peleman’s multi-site Inflatable Refugee inst…
Public art, sexuality, and critical pedagogy
This paper establishes a novel niche by providing an original critical synthesis of the potentials and challenges of using public art to teach about, and “que(e)ry”, sexuality, gender and space. The argument vouches for a critical pedagogy that pursues a visual politics for experiential and potentially transformative learning about processes of social inclusion and exclusion, marginalization, and empowerment. It draws from vignettes of first-hand…
Beyond Picturesque Decay: Detroit and the Photographic Sites of Confrontation Between Media and Residents
This article contributes to scholarship on urban visual culture by advancing understandings of how visual imageries may become (online and off-line) sites of confrontation between dominant media perspectives and the lived experiences of urban citizens. Based on participatory photography amongst local residents in Detroit, this article provides transformative insights by contrasting sense makings of Detroiters with dominant media portrayals of a “…
Digital geographies of public art: New global politics
Responding to geography’s digital and political turns, this article presents an original critical synthesis of the under-examined niche of networked geographies of public-art practices in today’s politicised digital culture. This article advances insights into digital public art as politics, and its role in politicising online public spaces with foci on: how digital technologies have instigated do-it-yourself modes for the co-creation of art cont…
Regenerating a coastal town through art: Dismaland and the (l)imitations of antagonistic art practice in the city
Urban preservation and the queerying spaces of (un)remembering: Memorial landscapes of the Miami Beach art deco historic district
Based on a case study on Miami Beach’s acclaimed iconic art deco architectural district, this article critically dovetails intersecting hegemonic spaces of preservation, memorial practices and social and sexual identities. It argues how commemorative narratives are selectively encrypted in the local urban environment and its artefacts deemed of historical significance. It especially reveals the tensions arising between art deco (i.e. architectura…
Public Art for an Inclusive City: Producers and Publics on the Social Potentials and Problems of Flagship Vis-à-Vis Community Art
This article engages with socio-spatial theory on the "trialectic" between the physical, social, and spatial to examine the roles and uses of flagship vis-à-vis community art as experienced by both producers and publics. It presents a comparative case study on the Hieronymus Bosch Statue, a flagship artwork, and The Four Seasons, a community artwork, in the Dutch mid-sized city of Den Bosch. This study critically juxtaposes everyday experiences o…
Introduction to Special Issue: Urban Public Art: Geographies of Co-Production
Homomonument as Queer Micropublic: An Emotional Geography of Sexual Citizenship
Emotions have remained under‐addressed in scholarship on public memorial art, particularly with sexuality content. This case study on the Amsterdam‐based Homomonument attends to this gap by differentiating emotions according to multi‐scalar, multi‐temporal and multi‐semiotic dimensions of everyday lived experiences of sexual citizenship. Based on discourse analysis of secondary materials and social media coverage, supplemented with auto‐ethnograp…
A cybergeography of public art encounter: The case of Rubber Duck
Scholarship has largely been conducted on publics’ ‘offline’ public art encounters, while public art practice has become increasingly integrated with virtual dimensions. This article aims to fill this gap by focusing on digitally mediated public art engagement. A case study on the travelling Rubber Duck exhibition (2012–present) interrogates how this artwork is appropriated and narrated through digitally networked spaces (mainly social media, for…
Embodied techno-space: An auto-ethnography on affective citizenship in the techno electronic dance music scene
The search for publics: Challenging Comfort Zones in the Co-Creation of Public Art
This article reflects on a workshop as a space of possibility to encounter actual publics, explore the relationship between publics and experts and imagine alternative realities for public-art practice. In a workshop that the author convened at the invitation of the local cultural organisation Lokaal42 in Helmond in the Netherlands, participants were challenged to transgress comfort zones by enacting and negotiating desired prospects for public a…
Porn in church: Moral geographies of homosexuality in Uganda
This case-study based paper on Uganda critically engages with the strategic visual representation of homosexuality as socially dysfunctional and non-productive, reflecting what in queer studies is called Ôqueer social negativityÕ.This depiction ensues from current popular Ugandan understandings of sexuality that are deeply rooted in the socio-moral order of family and kinship promoted by Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity.The Ugandan pastor…
Queer cities, queer cultures: Europe since 1945
Cook and EvansÕ anthology offers a rich analytic assemblage of urban queer culture in Europe from 1945 to the present time.Although its temporal focus requires further conceptual substantiation, the work is generally effective in analysing queerÕs complex socio-spatial dimensions.This is particularly done in the domains of politics, mobility, migration, tourism, democracy, religion, language, sex, health, prejudice and justice that have been stru…
Deconstructing public artopia: Situating public-art claims within practice
Digital geographies of public art: New global politics
Responding to geography’s digital and political turns, this article presents an original critical synthesis of the under-examined niche of networked geographies of public-art practices in today’s politicised digital culture. This article advances insights into digital public art as politics, and its role in politicising online public spaces with foci on: how digital technologies have instigated do-it-yourself modes for the co-creation of art cont…
Engaging geographies of public art: Indwellers, the 'Butt Plug Gnome' and their locale
This paper focuses on particularities of indwellers' perceptions of public art and its locale by drawing on the epistemology of 'situated knowledges' (Haraway 1991, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Women. New York: Routledge) and the notion of 'geographies of engagement' (Zebracki, Van Der Vaart and Van Aalst 2010, Geoforum 41(5): 786-795). We employ the case of Paul McCarthy's internationally acclaimed public artwork Santa Claus i…
Queer mobilities: Critical LGBTQ perspectives of public transport spaces
This paper combines two case studies from the UK and Israel to question/‘que(e)ry’ LGBTQ people’s travel and mobility behaviours, to explore the issue of ‘queer mobilities’ and related exclusions from heteronormative public transport spaces. Our research demonstrates how the fear of anti-LGBTQ discrimination and violence have profound impacts on LGBTQ people’s travel options and activity spaces. Using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods…
Beyond public artopia: Public Art as Perceived by Its Publics
Since the upsurge of public art in the 1980s, geographers have been critically analysing creative practices as drivers of urban development and regeneration. They have commonly framed perceptions of art in urban public space from the perspectives of its producers and planners. Yet, the fundamental purpose of public art is shaped by its publics, which comprise a multifaceted audience. Some scholars have held a brief for examining perceptions of pu…
Queer Monuments: Visibility, (Counter)actions, Legacy
This article synthesizes original comparative perspectives of visibility, (counter)actions, and legacy regarding queer monuments: public artworks dedicated to, and questioning or queering normativities around, the lives of LGBT+ people. It pursues a dialogic, interdisciplinary, and multisite and intercultural argument, drawing from approaches and preliminary insights from a scholarly project (Queer Memorials) and artist's project (Strange Inherit…
Beyond Picturesque Decay: Detroit and the Photographic Sites of Confrontation Between Media and Residents
This article contributes to scholarship on urban visual culture by advancing understandings of how visual imageries may become (online and off-line) sites of confrontation between dominant media perspectives and the lived experiences of urban citizens. Based on participatory photography amongst local residents in Detroit, this article provides transformative insights by contrasting sense makings of Detroiters with dominant media portrayals of a “…
Regenerating a coastal town through art: Dismaland and the (l)imitations of antagonistic art practice in the city
Public art, sexuality, and critical pedagogy
This paper establishes a novel niche by providing an original critical synthesis of the potentials and challenges of using public art to teach about, and “que(e)ry”, sexuality, gender and space. The argument vouches for a critical pedagogy that pursues a visual politics for experiential and potentially transformative learning about processes of social inclusion and exclusion, marginalization, and empowerment. It draws from vignettes of first-hand…
Public Art for an Inclusive City: Producers and Publics on the Social Potentials and Problems of Flagship Vis-à-Vis Community Art
This article engages with socio-spatial theory on the "trialectic" between the physical, social, and spatial to examine the roles and uses of flagship vis-à-vis community art as experienced by both producers and publics. It presents a comparative case study on the Hieronymus Bosch Statue, a flagship artwork, and The Four Seasons, a community artwork, in the Dutch mid-sized city of Den Bosch. This study critically juxtaposes everyday experiences o…
Homomonument as Queer Micropublic: An Emotional Geography of Sexual Citizenship
Emotions have remained under‐addressed in scholarship on public memorial art, particularly with sexuality content. This case study on the Amsterdam‐based Homomonument attends to this gap by differentiating emotions according to multi‐scalar, multi‐temporal and multi‐semiotic dimensions of everyday lived experiences of sexual citizenship. Based on discourse analysis of secondary materials and social media coverage, supplemented with auto‐ethnograp…
Embodied techno-space: An auto-ethnography on affective citizenship in the techno electronic dance music scene
Public artivism: Queering Geographies of Migration and Social Inclusivity
This article contributes an original critique at the nexus of public art, activism (i.e. public artivism) and migration alongside the promotion of inclusive change. It pushes at transdisciplinary boundaries by integrating geohumanities scholarship on socially engaged public art whilst adopting a queer theory approach to foreground and interrogate the socially marginalised. The focus is on Schellekens & Peleman’s multi-site Inflatable Refugee inst…
Urban preservation and the queerying spaces of (un)remembering: Memorial landscapes of the Miami Beach art deco historic district
Based on a case study on Miami Beach’s acclaimed iconic art deco architectural district, this article critically dovetails intersecting hegemonic spaces of preservation, memorial practices and social and sexual identities. It argues how commemorative narratives are selectively encrypted in the local urban environment and its artefacts deemed of historical significance. It especially reveals the tensions arising between art deco (i.e. architectura…
Introduction to Special Issue: Urban Public Art: Geographies of Co-Production
Does Cultural Policy Matter in Public-Art Production? The Netherlands and Flanders Compared, 1945-Present
Cultural policy has produced divergent intentions underlying the direction of public art since its advent in Western Europe in 1945. Literature has feebly demonstrated the extent to which differentialities in cultural policy have affected the production of public artworks over time and space. This paper fills this gap as regards Amsterdam and Ghent, cities that are situated in different national institutional contexts. It shows dissimilarity-in t…
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory
This article delves into queer memorials: public artworks dedicated to, and commonly designed to commemorate, LGBTQ + people’s lives. As part of a broader international multisite project, we present the first comprehensive case-study survey ( N = 343) of its kind, examining how everyday members of the public experience the Amsterdam Homomonument as an inclusive site of memory. As the world’s first publicly commissioned monument inaugurated for th…
Inclusive LGBTQ+ fieldwork: Advancing spaces of belonging and safety
Increasing everyday levels of LGBTQ+ phobia and other forms of identity‐based prejudice reveal the need for systematic attention across the versatile geographic discipline to the belonging and safety of LGBTQ+ field researchers. Through an expanded reflection on Bracken and Mawdsley's (2004) account ‘“Muddy glee”: Rounding out the picture of women and physical geography fieldwork’ ( Area , 36, pp. 280–286), we consider the major issues – includin…
A cybergeography of public art encounter: The case of Rubber Duck
Scholarship has largely been conducted on publics’ ‘offline’ public art encounters, while public art practice has become increasingly integrated with virtual dimensions. This article aims to fill this gap by focusing on digitally mediated public art engagement. A case study on the travelling Rubber Duck exhibition (2012–present) interrogates how this artwork is appropriated and narrated through digitally networked spaces (mainly social media, for…
The search for publics: Challenging Comfort Zones in the Co-Creation of Public Art
This article reflects on a workshop as a space of possibility to encounter actual publics, explore the relationship between publics and experts and imagine alternative realities for public-art practice. In a workshop that the author convened at the invitation of the local cultural organisation Lokaal42 in Helmond in the Netherlands, participants were challenged to transgress comfort zones by enacting and negotiating desired prospects for public a…
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology
This article examines creative writing (CW) as a place-based methodology for doing and analysing fieldwork. Drawing insights from CW scholarship and workshops as part of a collaborative project, we contribute new empirically-informed insights from peer researchers about the significance of leveraging emotional connections, detailed attention to lived experiences, and the researcher's experiences in executing and reporting fieldwork. While attendi…
The politics of restor(y)ing: Towards a conflictual approach to art in urban public space
This paper investigates the political implications of public art using frameworks of conflict and antagonism.We introduce 'restor(y)ing' as an analytical scaling device for examining public art's potential to destabilise official planning processes and reclaim cities through acts of re-telling (restorying) and re-making (restoring) urban spaces.We probe how commissioned/formal and unsolicited/informal public art practices can concurrently operate…
Teaching geographies of sexualities: 20 Years On
This editorial provides an introduction to the Journal of Geography in Higher Education Symposium on “Teaching geographies of sexualities: 20 years on”. This edited collection revisits the Symposium “Teaching sexualities in geography” (Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Volume 23 [1999], Issue 1) and the earlier Arena Symposium essay series “Teaching sexual geographies” (Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Volume 21 [1997], Issue 3).…
Porn in church: Moral geographies of homosexuality in Uganda
This case-study based paper on Uganda critically engages with the strategic visual representation of homosexuality as socially dysfunctional and non-productive, reflecting what in queer studies is called Ôqueer social negativityÕ.This depiction ensues from current popular Ugandan understandings of sexuality that are deeply rooted in the socio-moral order of family and kinship promoted by Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity.The Ugandan pastor…
Queer cities, queer cultures: Europe since 1945
Cook and EvansÕ anthology offers a rich analytic assemblage of urban queer culture in Europe from 1945 to the present time.Although its temporal focus requires further conceptual substantiation, the work is generally effective in analysing queerÕs complex socio-spatial dimensions.This is particularly done in the domains of politics, mobility, migration, tourism, democracy, religion, language, sex, health, prejudice and justice that have been stru…
Deconstructing public artopia: Situating public-art claims within practice
Beyond public artopia: Public Art as Perceived by Its Publics
Since the upsurge of public art in the 1980s, geographers have been critically analysing creative practices as drivers of urban development and regeneration. They have commonly framed perceptions of art in urban public space from the perspectives of its producers and planners. Yet, the fundamental purpose of public art is shaped by its publics, which comprise a multifaceted audience. Some scholars have held a brief for examining perceptions of pu…
Does Cultural Policy Matter in Public-Art Production? The Netherlands and Flanders Compared, 1945-Present
Cultural policy has produced divergent intentions underlying the direction of public art since its advent in Western Europe in 1945. Literature has feebly demonstrated the extent to which differentialities in cultural policy have affected the production of public artworks over time and space. This paper fills this gap as regards Amsterdam and Ghent, cities that are situated in different national institutional contexts. It shows dissimilarity-in t…
Artists‐Accompanied Urban Regeneration: Insights and Lessons from Utrecht and Rotterdam
Urban regeneration in D utch cities is increasingly accompanied by the cultural sector in general and by artists in particular. This paper presents comparative case studies on current artists‐accompanied urban regeneration initiated by housing corporations in U trecht and R otterdam. On the basis of discourse analysis on the voices of decisive actors, it explores the rationale behind artists‐accompanied urban regeneration and the sociospatial imp…
Engaging geographies of public art: Indwellers, the 'Butt Plug Gnome' and their locale
This paper focuses on particularities of indwellers' perceptions of public art and its locale by drawing on the epistemology of 'situated knowledges' (Haraway 1991, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Women. New York: Routledge) and the notion of 'geographies of engagement' (Zebracki, Van Der Vaart and Van Aalst 2010, Geoforum 41(5): 786-795). We employ the case of Paul McCarthy's internationally acclaimed public artwork Santa Claus i…
Retracted: Right to Space: Moving Towards Sexual Citizenship Beyond the Nation State
Porn in church: Moral geographies of homosexuality in Uganda
This case-study based paper on Uganda critically engages with the strategic visual representation of homosexuality as socially dysfunctional and non-productive, reflecting what in queer studies is called Ôqueer social negativityÕ.This depiction ensues from current popular Ugandan understandings of sexuality that are deeply rooted in the socio-moral order of family and kinship promoted by Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity.The Ugandan pastor…
Queer cities, queer cultures: Europe since 1945
Cook and EvansÕ anthology offers a rich analytic assemblage of urban queer culture in Europe from 1945 to the present time.Although its temporal focus requires further conceptual substantiation, the work is generally effective in analysing queerÕs complex socio-spatial dimensions.This is particularly done in the domains of politics, mobility, migration, tourism, democracy, religion, language, sex, health, prejudice and justice that have been stru…
A cybergeography of public art encounter: The case of Rubber Duck
Scholarship has largely been conducted on publics’ ‘offline’ public art encounters, while public art practice has become increasingly integrated with virtual dimensions. This article aims to fill this gap by focusing on digitally mediated public art engagement. A case study on the travelling Rubber Duck exhibition (2012–present) interrogates how this artwork is appropriated and narrated through digitally networked spaces (mainly social media, for…
Embodied techno-space: An auto-ethnography on affective citizenship in the techno electronic dance music scene
The search for publics: Challenging Comfort Zones in the Co-Creation of Public Art
This article reflects on a workshop as a space of possibility to encounter actual publics, explore the relationship between publics and experts and imagine alternative realities for public-art practice. In a workshop that the author convened at the invitation of the local cultural organisation Lokaal42 in Helmond in the Netherlands, participants were challenged to transgress comfort zones by enacting and negotiating desired prospects for public a…
Homomonument as Queer Micropublic: An Emotional Geography of Sexual Citizenship
Emotions have remained under‐addressed in scholarship on public memorial art, particularly with sexuality content. This case study on the Amsterdam‐based Homomonument attends to this gap by differentiating emotions according to multi‐scalar, multi‐temporal and multi‐semiotic dimensions of everyday lived experiences of sexual citizenship. Based on discourse analysis of secondary materials and social media coverage, supplemented with auto‐ethnograp…
Beyond Picturesque Decay: Detroit and the Photographic Sites of Confrontation Between Media and Residents
This article contributes to scholarship on urban visual culture by advancing understandings of how visual imageries may become (online and off-line) sites of confrontation between dominant media perspectives and the lived experiences of urban citizens. Based on participatory photography amongst local residents in Detroit, this article provides transformative insights by contrasting sense makings of Detroiters with dominant media portrayals of a “…
Digital geographies of public art: New global politics
Responding to geography’s digital and political turns, this article presents an original critical synthesis of the under-examined niche of networked geographies of public-art practices in today’s politicised digital culture. This article advances insights into digital public art as politics, and its role in politicising online public spaces with foci on: how digital technologies have instigated do-it-yourself modes for the co-creation of art cont…
Regenerating a coastal town through art: Dismaland and the (l)imitations of antagonistic art practice in the city
Urban preservation and the queerying spaces of (un)remembering: Memorial landscapes of the Miami Beach art deco historic district
Based on a case study on Miami Beach’s acclaimed iconic art deco architectural district, this article critically dovetails intersecting hegemonic spaces of preservation, memorial practices and social and sexual identities. It argues how commemorative narratives are selectively encrypted in the local urban environment and its artefacts deemed of historical significance. It especially reveals the tensions arising between art deco (i.e. architectura…
Public Art for an Inclusive City: Producers and Publics on the Social Potentials and Problems of Flagship Vis-à-Vis Community Art
This article engages with socio-spatial theory on the "trialectic" between the physical, social, and spatial to examine the roles and uses of flagship vis-à-vis community art as experienced by both producers and publics. It presents a comparative case study on the Hieronymus Bosch Statue, a flagship artwork, and The Four Seasons, a community artwork, in the Dutch mid-sized city of Den Bosch. This study critically juxtaposes everyday experiences o…
Introduction to Special Issue: Urban Public Art: Geographies of Co-Production
Public art, sexuality, and critical pedagogy
This paper establishes a novel niche by providing an original critical synthesis of the potentials and challenges of using public art to teach about, and “que(e)ry”, sexuality, gender and space. The argument vouches for a critical pedagogy that pursues a visual politics for experiential and potentially transformative learning about processes of social inclusion and exclusion, marginalization, and empowerment. It draws from vignettes of first-hand…
Teaching geographies of sexualities: 20 Years On
This editorial provides an introduction to the Journal of Geography in Higher Education Symposium on “Teaching geographies of sexualities: 20 years on”. This edited collection revisits the Symposium “Teaching sexualities in geography” (Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Volume 23 [1999], Issue 1) and the earlier Arena Symposium essay series “Teaching sexual geographies” (Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Volume 21 [1997], Issue 3).…
Public artivism: Queering Geographies of Migration and Social Inclusivity
This article contributes an original critique at the nexus of public art, activism (i.e. public artivism) and migration alongside the promotion of inclusive change. It pushes at transdisciplinary boundaries by integrating geohumanities scholarship on socially engaged public art whilst adopting a queer theory approach to foreground and interrogate the socially marginalised. The focus is on Schellekens & Peleman’s multi-site Inflatable Refugee inst…
The Landscape of Public Art Research: A Knowledge Map Analysis
This is the first article to date that employs a knowledge map analysis to provide insights into the landscape of public art research, a multidisciplinary area that is concerned with issues around the geographies of art, space, and community. This study uses bibliometric analysis and knowledge visualization tools provided by CiteSpace mapping software to review scholarly journal output on “public art” since 1964—which is the first occurrence of t…
Queer mobilities: Critical LGBTQ perspectives of public transport spaces
This paper combines two case studies from the UK and Israel to question/‘que(e)ry’ LGBTQ people’s travel and mobility behaviours, to explore the issue of ‘queer mobilities’ and related exclusions from heteronormative public transport spaces. Our research demonstrates how the fear of anti-LGBTQ discrimination and violence have profound impacts on LGBTQ people’s travel options and activity spaces. Using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods…
Inclusive LGBTQ+ fieldwork: Advancing spaces of belonging and safety
Increasing everyday levels of LGBTQ+ phobia and other forms of identity‐based prejudice reveal the need for systematic attention across the versatile geographic discipline to the belonging and safety of LGBTQ+ field researchers. Through an expanded reflection on Bracken and Mawdsley's (2004) account ‘“Muddy glee”: Rounding out the picture of women and physical geography fieldwork’ ( Area , 36, pp. 280–286), we consider the major issues – includin…
Queer Monuments: Visibility, (Counter)actions, Legacy
This article synthesizes original comparative perspectives of visibility, (counter)actions, and legacy regarding queer monuments: public artworks dedicated to, and questioning or queering normativities around, the lives of LGBT+ people. It pursues a dialogic, interdisciplinary, and multisite and intercultural argument, drawing from approaches and preliminary insights from a scholarly project (Queer Memorials) and artist's project (Strange Inherit…
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