Taking New Directions

How Rural Queerness Provides Unique Insights into Place, Class, and Visibility

Bibliographic Data

ID15801520
AuthorsKelly J Baker (Western University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume20
Issue1
Publication date2012-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2561-7818 • E-ISSN: 2561-7818
PublisherUniversity of Western Ontario, Western Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5206/uwoja.v20i1.8919
OpenAlexW780331364
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

In this paper I demonstrate how an attention to rural queerness offers a beneficial and necessary opportunity to examine queer subjectivies through the lens of space, place, and class. I highlight how individuals' claims to queerness can actually be embeddd within identifications with class and place. I demonstrate how identifications with place are illustrative of a broader coneption of rurality, an often-ignored yet immensely pervasive thread of identity, which, governed by familiarity, familial affiliation, and community participation, can actually provide rural queer individuals with a means of both acceptance and queer expression alternative to dominant models. I illustrate how rurality is not only absent from hegemonic urban conceptualizations of queer visibility, but is actually incompatible with the basic tenets of mainstream urban queer visibility politics. Rurality thus provides a compelling vehicle of critique and alternative envisioning for contemporary queer politics and subjectivities

Aesthetics · Art · Geography · Hegemony · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Queer · Rural area · Rurality · Sociology · Visibility · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Urban Planning and Governance

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