Intertextuality, the referential illusion and the production of a gay ghetto
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vincent Miller (0000-0002-7193-5378, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-79 |
| Publication date | 2005-02-01 |
| 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 | 10.1080/1464936052000335973 |
| OpenAlex | W2061291376 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper challenges Lefebvre’s distinction between Representations of Space and Spaces of Representation. Most current work in this area has assumed modernist conceptions of power, thereby interpreting representations of space (conceived space) as the property of the powerful who alone possess the ability to abstract space for their particular ends. Contrary to Lefebvre, I suggest that representation and abstraction are not the agents of state capitalism alone but are also manifested in ‘counter’ discourses. As an example of a ‘counter discourse’ I draw upon a series of editorial articles written in a local gay-oriented newspaper about a gay enclave in Vancouver, Canada. I argue that these depictions cloud the distinctions as practised between conception, abstraction and the imaginary in urban space. They also serve to promote one interpretation of space above others, and in that sense they colonize the experience of everyday life in their own way. The act of ‘speaking for’ presupposes a certain power, and in these cases, highlights the fact that the power of representation and abstraction does not only occur at the state or ‘system’ level. I suggest that by overcoming the assumption of a zero-sum ontology of power, one can see how a variety of agents in the urban context engage in the attempt to carve out their ‘own’ spaces of stability in the urban social imaginary
Abstraction · Aesthetics · Appropriation · Capitalism · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Identity (music · Interpretation (philosophy · Intertextuality · Late capitalism · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Representation (politics · Sociology · The Imaginary · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art · Urban Planning and Governance
Moving “Out,” Moving On
Leisure, Social Space, and Belonging
« Bats-toi ma sœur ». Appropriation de l’espace public urbain et contestation de la norme par les homosexuels
Gender and sexuality I
Cities and Sexualities
Gay and Lesbian Couples at Home
The transformative (and potentially discriminatory) possibilities of animating public space
Bodies in Space
The Transparency of Democracy”
Gender and sexuality II
Gender and sexuality II
The Practices and Process of Neighborhood
At once liberating and exclusionary? A Lefebvrean analysis of Gilda’s Club of Toronto
Gentrification and the Shifting Geography of Male Same-Sex Couples
Homonormative aesthetics
Imagining King Street in the Gay/Lesbian Media
Ottawa’s Le/The Village
A mythical place
The Unmappable
Governing sexuality and park space
The discoursal construction of candidates in the tenth Iranian presidential elections
Festivals, Space and Sexuality
Straightening' space and time? Peripheral moral panics in print media representations of Canadian LGBTQ2S suburbanites, 1985-2005
Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being PassÉ
Queer-Friendly Neighbourhoods
The Social Production of Urban Space
The Power of Maps
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
Discourse and social change
Places on the Margin
The Practice of Everyday Life
Vancouver’s Chinatown
Understanding Henri Lefebvre
Lefebvre, Love and Struggle
Deconstructing the Map
Bodies, Visions, and Spatial Politics
Representations and identities in tourism map spaces
The Cultural Politics of Place
Community as Interpretive Community
Journalists as interpretive communities
Race, Protest, and Public Space
The production of space
Imagined communities
The condition of postmodernity
Critique of everyday life
Toward an Analysis of the Role of Gay Communities in the Urban Renaissance
Researching Society and Culture
The Idea of Chinatown
West Hollywood as Symbol
The Life and Times of Community
Social theory, social movements and public policy
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
What's in a name? Minorities, identity, and politics in Bulgaria
Spatialities of 'community', power and change
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2021 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |