Geographies of LGBTQ2+ Survival: Contestations of Living and Belonging in Queer Public Spaces - Rae Rosenberg
Location:
Virtual Event
Date/time
Thu 31 March 2022
12:0.0-13:30
The University of Edinburgh Criminology Reading Group Seminar Series 2021/2022 presents:
Geographies of LGBTQ2+ Survival: Contestations of Living and Belonging in Queer Public Spaces
Dr Rae Rosenberg (he/him), Lecturer in School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
Geographies of survival address the ordinary proximity to state abandonment and violence that so frequently encapsulates the lives of people living in precarity, isolation, and vulnerability. This talk discusses the mundane forms of criminalization and contention that LGBTQ2+ youth experiencing homelessness encounter when inhabiting Toronto's gay village. Building on theories of bio-necropower, this talk explores the disputes that emerge when LGBTQ2+ youth experiencing homelessness assert themselves in queer public spaces and in doing so, charge their lives with intimacy, kinship, and meaning. Queer public spaces are important sites in which the state asserts control through policing and criminalization, particularly when abandoned subjects find ways to construct a meaningful life. This talk engages with the enduring persistence of LGBTQ2+ youth experiencing homelessness to feel a sense of purpose and belonging, and exposes the institutional efforts to reassert spatial exclusions of marginalized LGBTQ2+ people from Toronto's gay village.
Rae Rosenberg (he/him) is a Lecturer in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a Ph.D. in Critical Human Geography from York University and his work explores the contestations of living and forms of resistance amongst multiply-marginalized LGBTQ2+ people. His writing is published in journals such as Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Urban Studies, and Urban Geography.
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