Jack Jen Gieseking
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 225294 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jack Jen Gieseking |
| PRENOMES | Jack Jen |
| SOBRENOME | Gieseking |
| ASSINATURA | GIESEKING J J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9472-9676 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 206 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
A Reply on Responsibility and Repair in AI
This afterword examines artificial intelligence (AI) as the latest iteration of digital capitalism's utopian promises and resultant violences, while situating AI within broader conversations on responsibility and repair in digital geographies. Building from what Lucy Suchman describes as its ‘strategic vagueness’, and much like ‘big data’ in the 2010s, AI is promoted through power and manipulation: supposedly able to solve social, political and e…
A roundtable on lesbian generations
The following written dialogue began as an intergenerational conversation, hosted by the lesbian feminist literary journal Sinister Wisdom , about Mairead Sullivan's book Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer , and continued over a series of Zoom conversations in the spring of 2024. We discuss what the term lesbian means to us, teaching and intergenerational encounters, lesbian feminism in the archives, and lineages of lesbi…
The Night is Still Young
Reflections on a cis discipline
Generations of Ex-lovers Cannot Fail
Generations of Ex-lovers Cannot Fail: Rethinking Lesbian Feminism Today Jack Jen Gieseking (bio) Cait McKinney’s Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020 Rox Samer’s Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022 Executive Director Sarah Chinn of the (then) Center of Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)1 co-organized the Lesbians in the 1…
Getting the Hell Over Manhattan
When reading Hugh Ryan's When Brooklyn Was Queer, the reader may feel certain (as I did) that Ryan is perched next to you on a stool at a gay bar, whispering stories of queer trysts, losses, and triumphs in your ear as you ironically down Manhattans. Ryan captivatingly weaves together a vibrant history of queer waterfronts, “peg houses,” communes, and scandals, which is a history also erased by highways, violence, pathologization, and morality co…
You vs. Us in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights
Dyke Slope
Epilogue
Constellating a Queer Map of the Lesbian City
Belonging in Greenwich Village and Gay Manhattan
Navigating A Queer New York
Citing you on behalf of an other digital geographical imagination
In replying to Natalie Oswin’s ‘An Other Geography’, I extend Oswin’s argument for ‘solidarities across modes of difference’ to the place of the scholarly Internet, through the specific case of citation practices. The scholarly Internet—ranging across platforms such as Google Scholar, Socarxiv, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu , to social media including the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram—affords new connections and communities, particul…
A Queer New York
The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City Over the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community. In A Queer New York , Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping the political, economic, and geographic dispossession of an important, thriving…
Mapping lesbian and queer lines of desire
The path to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) liberation has been narrated through a claim to long-term, propertied territory in the form of urban neighborhoods and bars. However, lesbians and queers fail to retain these spaces over generations, often due to their lesser political and economic power. What then is the lesbian-queer production of urban space in their own words? Drawing on interviews with and archival research a…
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
Launched in 2015, the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project maps and records present and possible future lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (Lgbt) historic sites in New York City. Using the tag line “Making an Invisible History Visible,” the project draws on the narrative that most Lgbt historic sites have long been “unknown or underappreciated.” As of late 2018, the Web site already includes over two hundred historic sites, each with a brief scho…
Start Here. We Exist
What are the politics of accounting for and sharing LGBTQ history in the United States with broader publics? The US National Park Service released LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History in 2016, designed to serve as a foundation for identifying, evaluating, and preserving LGBTQ history and historic sites across the country. In a roundtable conversation in 2018, six authors of the theme study from va…
Queer Internet studies recommended reading list
The list below is a selection of queer Internet studies (QIS) literature that, far from a comprehensive list, as a jumping off point for those looking to undertake research on the Internet from a queer perspective, or who are looking to do research with queer communities online. We offer this list as a complement and extension to the proceedings and articles in order to show the breadth and depth of QIS at work
What's queer about Internet studies now
Queerness owes much to the past, a past we can see playing out again and again in physical and online spaces. More than seeing the Internet as a tool for LGBTQ activism alone, our collective dialogue asks: what’s queer about the Internet? The interventions by queer theory and LGBTQ studies into Internet studies begets a new turn of phrase and a renewed queer studies in a terrain that queers have always made their own, i.e., online: Queer Internet…
A conversation
The following is a panel discussion from QIS2 that in which five experts shared their research on queer media and technology. The panellists discuss a wide range of topics including trans people and surveillance online; trans identity and social media; online communities and feminist politics; the LGBT games archive; and digital vigilantism and sex trafficking. Uniting these diverse themes were a shared attention to the politics of queer visibili…
Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities
Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities Jen Jack Gieseking (bio) For decades, the "spatial turn" has shaped and been shaped by the thinking of scholars and students in American studies in regard to the production, meaning, and experience of space and place. The "digital turn" soon followed and intertwined with the previous twist: "The recent embrace of GIS and other digital tools by the traditionally technology-averse d…
Operating anew
In the last decade, conversations around queering of GIScience emerged. Drawing on literature from feminist and queer critical GIS, with special attention to the under‐examined political economy of GIS, I suggest that the critical project of queering all of GIS, both GIScience and GISystems, requires not just recognition of the labour and lives of queers and research in geographies of sexualities. Based upon a queer feminist political economic cr…
Geographical Imagination
Geographers attach multiple definitions to the term “geographical imagination,” many of which can be traced back to the work of Hugh Prince, David Harvey, and Derek Gregory. The term is most often used in relation to understandings of the landscape, the power of maps, studies of identity and oppression, and/or meanings of large territories as they relate to everyday lives such as the city, nature, or the nation‐state. At its best, the geographica…
Messing with the attractiveness algorithm
Responding to the collection of articles, ‘Queering Code/Space,’ this article discusses how algorithms affect the production of online lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) spaces, namely online dating sites. The set of articles is well timed: lesbian bars have closed en masse across the US and many gay male bars have followed suit so that online spaces fill – or perhaps make – a gap in the social production of LGBTQ spaces. I dr…
Dyked New York
Where We Go From Here
The mental mapping method affords a lens into the way people produce and experience space, forms of spatial intelligence, and dynamics of human-environment relations. Mental mapping is the representation of an individual or group's cognitive map, hand sketched and/or computer-assisted, in drafting and labeling a map or adding to and labeling an already existing map. Despite its long-term, rich, and multifaceted use across the social sciences, I f…
A Queer New York
The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City Over the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community. In A Queer New York , Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping the political, economic, and geographic dispossession of an important, thriving…
Mapping lesbian and queer lines of desire
The path to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) liberation has been narrated through a claim to long-term, propertied territory in the form of urban neighborhoods and bars. However, lesbians and queers fail to retain these spaces over generations, often due to their lesser political and economic power. What then is the lesbian-queer production of urban space in their own words? Drawing on interviews with and archival research a…
Changing Gender Relations, Changing Families
Shoestring Democracy
This article develops the concept of shoestring democracy as a way to characterize the resulting social relations of private governance structures embedded in two types of collective housing schemes found in New York City and the adjoining suburbs: gated condominium communities (gated condominiums) and market-rate cooperative apartment complexes (co-ops). Drawing from ethnographies of gated condominiums and co-ops in New York City and neighboring…
Messing with the attractiveness algorithm
Responding to the collection of articles, ‘Queering Code/Space,’ this article discusses how algorithms affect the production of online lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) spaces, namely online dating sites. The set of articles is well timed: lesbian bars have closed en masse across the US and many gay male bars have followed suit so that online spaces fill – or perhaps make – a gap in the social production of LGBTQ spaces. I dr…
Reflections on a cis discipline
Crossing over into neighbourhoods of the body
The geopolitical focus on territory as a fixed and cohesive nation‐state simultaneously conceals the ways territories form and are operationalised at other scales. At the same time, the fleeting ability of minority bodies to make and retain cohesive, property‐owned territories overlooks the limited agency that marginalised groups possess while they continually reproduce social territories as they navigate their everyday lives. Lesbians, gay, bise…
(Re)constructing women
How are privilege and/or particular gender norms for women spatially (re)produced over time and how are they challenged and changed? In interviews and mental mapping exercises with 32 students and graduates of an elite US women's college from graduating classes spanning 1937 to 2006, women's class and gender norms and expectations are found to have been produced, reproduced and reworked in their everyday experiences during college. Participants p…
Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities
Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities Jen Jack Gieseking (bio) For decades, the "spatial turn" has shaped and been shaped by the thinking of scholars and students in American studies in regard to the production, meaning, and experience of space and place. The "digital turn" soon followed and intertwined with the previous twist: "The recent embrace of GIS and other digital tools by the traditionally technology-averse d…
The Night is Still Young
A Reply on Responsibility and Repair in AI
This afterword examines artificial intelligence (AI) as the latest iteration of digital capitalism's utopian promises and resultant violences, while situating AI within broader conversations on responsibility and repair in digital geographies. Building from what Lucy Suchman describes as its ‘strategic vagueness’, and much like ‘big data’ in the 2010s, AI is promoted through power and manipulation: supposedly able to solve social, political and e…
Citing you on behalf of an other digital geographical imagination
In replying to Natalie Oswin’s ‘An Other Geography’, I extend Oswin’s argument for ‘solidarities across modes of difference’ to the place of the scholarly Internet, through the specific case of citation practices. The scholarly Internet—ranging across platforms such as Google Scholar, Socarxiv, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu , to social media including the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram—affords new connections and communities, particul…
Operating anew
In the last decade, conversations around queering of GIScience emerged. Drawing on literature from feminist and queer critical GIS, with special attention to the under‐examined political economy of GIS, I suggest that the critical project of queering all of GIS, both GIScience and GISystems, requires not just recognition of the labour and lives of queers and research in geographies of sexualities. Based upon a queer feminist political economic cr…
Start Here. We Exist
What are the politics of accounting for and sharing LGBTQ history in the United States with broader publics? The US National Park Service released LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History in 2016, designed to serve as a foundation for identifying, evaluating, and preserving LGBTQ history and historic sites across the country. In a roundtable conversation in 2018, six authors of the theme study from va…
Safe space
Christina B. Hanhardt writes in Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence that one cannot ‘fully understand changing spatial development patterns apart from LGBT politics’ (
Foreground and Background
To examine how the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) has engaged with environmental issues throughout its 75‐year history, we consulted five SPSSI ‐based data sources. Our analysis, attentive to the larger sociopolitical contexts over time, focuses on SPSSI 's attention to the physical environment, the places in which social living and interactions occur. In SPSSI 's early years, social issues research was often situate…
(Re)constructing women
How are privilege and/or particular gender norms for women spatially (re)produced over time and how are they challenged and changed? In interviews and mental mapping exercises with 32 students and graduates of an elite US women's college from graduating classes spanning 1937 to 2006, women's class and gender norms and expectations are found to have been produced, reproduced and reworked in their everyday experiences during college. Participants p…
Changing Gender Relations, Changing Families
Shoestring Democracy
This article develops the concept of shoestring democracy as a way to characterize the resulting social relations of private governance structures embedded in two types of collective housing schemes found in New York City and the adjoining suburbs: gated condominium communities (gated condominiums) and market-rate cooperative apartment complexes (co-ops). Drawing from ethnographies of gated condominiums and co-ops in New York City and neighboring…
Foreground and Background
To examine how the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) has engaged with environmental issues throughout its 75‐year history, we consulted five SPSSI ‐based data sources. Our analysis, attentive to the larger sociopolitical contexts over time, focuses on SPSSI 's attention to the physical environment, the places in which social living and interactions occur. In SPSSI 's early years, social issues research was often situate…
Where We Go From Here
The mental mapping method affords a lens into the way people produce and experience space, forms of spatial intelligence, and dynamics of human-environment relations. Mental mapping is the representation of an individual or group's cognitive map, hand sketched and/or computer-assisted, in drafting and labeling a map or adding to and labeling an already existing map. Despite its long-term, rich, and multifaceted use across the social sciences, I f…
Safe space
Christina B. Hanhardt writes in Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence that one cannot ‘fully understand changing spatial development patterns apart from LGBT politics’ (
There goes the gayborhood
Nearly a decade ago, The New York Times ran the article ‘Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being Passe’ (2007) and debates about the demise, rise, and sprawl of LGBTQ neighborhoods have been ongoing wi
Crossing over into neighbourhoods of the body
The geopolitical focus on territory as a fixed and cohesive nation‐state simultaneously conceals the ways territories form and are operationalised at other scales. At the same time, the fleeting ability of minority bodies to make and retain cohesive, property‐owned territories overlooks the limited agency that marginalised groups possess while they continually reproduce social territories as they navigate their everyday lives. Lesbians, gay, bise…
Geographical Imagination
Geographers attach multiple definitions to the term “geographical imagination,” many of which can be traced back to the work of Hugh Prince, David Harvey, and Derek Gregory. The term is most often used in relation to understandings of the landscape, the power of maps, studies of identity and oppression, and/or meanings of large territories as they relate to everyday lives such as the city, nature, or the nation‐state. At its best, the geographica…
Messing with the attractiveness algorithm
Responding to the collection of articles, ‘Queering Code/Space,’ this article discusses how algorithms affect the production of online lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) spaces, namely online dating sites. The set of articles is well timed: lesbian bars have closed en masse across the US and many gay male bars have followed suit so that online spaces fill – or perhaps make – a gap in the social production of LGBTQ spaces. I dr…
Queer Internet studies recommended reading list
The list below is a selection of queer Internet studies (QIS) literature that, far from a comprehensive list, as a jumping off point for those looking to undertake research on the Internet from a queer perspective, or who are looking to do research with queer communities online. We offer this list as a complement and extension to the proceedings and articles in order to show the breadth and depth of QIS at work
What's queer about Internet studies now
Queerness owes much to the past, a past we can see playing out again and again in physical and online spaces. More than seeing the Internet as a tool for LGBTQ activism alone, our collective dialogue asks: what’s queer about the Internet? The interventions by queer theory and LGBTQ studies into Internet studies begets a new turn of phrase and a renewed queer studies in a terrain that queers have always made their own, i.e., online: Queer Internet…
A conversation
The following is a panel discussion from QIS2 that in which five experts shared their research on queer media and technology. The panellists discuss a wide range of topics including trans people and surveillance online; trans identity and social media; online communities and feminist politics; the LGBT games archive; and digital vigilantism and sex trafficking. Uniting these diverse themes were a shared attention to the politics of queer visibili…
Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities
Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities Jen Jack Gieseking (bio) For decades, the "spatial turn" has shaped and been shaped by the thinking of scholars and students in American studies in regard to the production, meaning, and experience of space and place. The "digital turn" soon followed and intertwined with the previous twist: "The recent embrace of GIS and other digital tools by the traditionally technology-averse d…
Operating anew
In the last decade, conversations around queering of GIScience emerged. Drawing on literature from feminist and queer critical GIS, with special attention to the under‐examined political economy of GIS, I suggest that the critical project of queering all of GIS, both GIScience and GISystems, requires not just recognition of the labour and lives of queers and research in geographies of sexualities. Based upon a queer feminist political economic cr…
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
Launched in 2015, the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project maps and records present and possible future lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (Lgbt) historic sites in New York City. Using the tag line “Making an Invisible History Visible,” the project draws on the narrative that most Lgbt historic sites have long been “unknown or underappreciated.” As of late 2018, the Web site already includes over two hundred historic sites, each with a brief scho…
Start Here. We Exist
What are the politics of accounting for and sharing LGBTQ history in the United States with broader publics? The US National Park Service released LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History in 2016, designed to serve as a foundation for identifying, evaluating, and preserving LGBTQ history and historic sites across the country. In a roundtable conversation in 2018, six authors of the theme study from va…
You vs. Us in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights
Dyke Slope
Epilogue
Constellating a Queer Map of the Lesbian City
Belonging in Greenwich Village and Gay Manhattan
Navigating A Queer New York
Citing you on behalf of an other digital geographical imagination
In replying to Natalie Oswin’s ‘An Other Geography’, I extend Oswin’s argument for ‘solidarities across modes of difference’ to the place of the scholarly Internet, through the specific case of citation practices. The scholarly Internet—ranging across platforms such as Google Scholar, Socarxiv, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu , to social media including the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram—affords new connections and communities, particul…
A Queer New York
The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City Over the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community. In A Queer New York , Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping the political, economic, and geographic dispossession of an important, thriving…
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