Rethinking queer migration through the body
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978093 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Gorman-Murray (0000-0001-7479-8172, University of Wollongong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105-121 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649360701251858 |
| OpenAlex | W2040968683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 132 |
| References cited | 19 |
Discussions of the intranational migration of sexual dissidents have focused on rural-to-urban movement, and have largely conceptualized ‘queer migration’ through a symbolic rural–urban binary, consequently normalizing rural-to-urban displacement while eliding the real diversity of queer relocations. There is also a strong suggestion of teleological and ontological finality in the normalization of rural-to-urban relocation narratives, intimating a once-and-for-all emergence from the rural ‘closet’. To elicit greater complexity, I suggest that the explanatory scale of queer migration should be downsized from fixed rural–urban contrasts to the actual movement of the queer body through space. To this end I rethink ‘queer migration’ as an ‘embodied queer identity quest’, suggesting that while ‘coming out’ often underpins relocation decisions, the personal, embodied and individualistic nature of this experience generates movement on a variety of paths and scales. Arguably most important among these are peripatetic migrations, which most tellingly counter the teleology of rural-to-urban models. Moreover, in evoking embodied displacements predicated on ‘coming out’, I seek to contemplate the possible affects of bodily sexual desires in shaping the contours of queer migration
Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Lesbian · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Sex work and related issues
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| Unique citing works | 132 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,95 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 131 |