{"title":"Sexuality on the move: gay transnational mobility embedded on racialised desire for ‘white Asians’","authors":"Yo-Hsin Yang","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2057446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2057446","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper offers a Bourdieusian field analysis to unpack the intersection among sexuality, place, and mobility through an ethnographic study of Taiwanese gay men’s trips to Bangkok. It unveils that how the societal cause of ‘Eastern orientation’— a racialised sexual desire for ‘white Asians’ among Thai gay men — and other material circumstances have transformed distinct scales of territory, including nation-states and gay establishments, into nuanced yet not thoroughly disparate sexual fields. Such nuances are closely associated with gay men’s intra-Asian mobility between Thailand and Taiwan that I elucidate through the concept of ‘sexuality on the move.’ This concept suggests that individuals’ geographical movements may diversify their sexual habitus as well as fluctuate their tiers of desirability and vice versa, delineating how different aspects of human sexuality are reshaping and reshaped during or after their embodied mobility. At the same time, their yearning for sexuality alterations also shapes the pattern of individuals’ trans-national and intra-urban movements. Moreover, the paper underscores that these alterations are not just objective reality but these gay men’s subjective belief which, along with their sexual desire, embodied practices and personal experiences composing a conceptual ‘circuit of sex and tourism’, attracting and captivating gay men to participate in and then be obsessed with this form of sexual/touristic practice.","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"1994 1","pages":"791 - 811"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86240465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oppression and empowerment: domestic foodwork and culinary capital among diasporic Iranian women in Aotearoa/New Zealand","authors":"Amir Sayadabdi, P. Howland","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2060941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2060941","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines evolutions of domestic foodwork and associated status among diasporic Iranian women in contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand. Drawing on feminist food studies, as well as on Bourdieu’s notion of cultural and symbolic capitals, we examine the two-fold, oppression-empowerment aspects of domestic foodwork, specifically its transformation from a socio-cultural obligation in the origin home to a means of agentic liberation and social empowerment in diaspora. Furthermore, we explore how this transformation is strategically negotiated by some women to successfully generate positions of enhanced respect, status, and private influence both within the domestic sphere and the wider diasporic Iranian community in Aotearoa/New Zealand.","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"28 1","pages":"1220 - 1239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91545589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Storying relationships: young British Muslims speak and write about sex and love","authors":"A. Tucker","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2055917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2055917","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"896 - 899"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81470471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Winners of the Gender, Place and Culture Annual International Conference Award for New and Emerging Scholars, 2022","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2054767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2054767","url":null,"abstract":"In 2007, the editorial team introduced the Gender, Place and Culture Annual Award for new and emerging Scholars with funds supplied by taylor & Francis. the award is targeted at emerging researchers in feminist geographies who are trying to establish research careers and create research momentum. the editorial team of Gender, Place and Culture is pleased to announce the award winners of this annual award, valued at a maximum of uS$1,500. this year the editors agreed to share the award between two candidates who both were deserving in terms of their financial need and the quality of their intended presentations. they are: Maria Anne Fitzgerald, Doctoral candidate at the Department of Geography, university of Delhi, and Mirjam Sagi, Assistant Research Fellow at the centre for economic and Regional Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. they will both use the award to present papers at the conference uGI-IGu 2022 in Paris, France, July 18-22, 2022. congratulations and best wishes for your continued work in the field of feminist geography! title and abstract of Maria Anne Fitzgerald’s paper: From gender wallah to feminist geographer: Reflections on ‘doing’ Gender and Feminist Geography in India existing literature on gender and feminist geography in India has discussed the growth and concerns of the sub-discipline. the frontlines wherefrom this geographical knowledge is produced may also be traced along the fringes of classrooms, recreational spaces and residential complexes within higher education institutes in India. While these spaces are keenly projected as ‘universitarian’ images, they are meshed with unequal gender and caste relations often inconspicuous within these institutes. these power asymmetries (un)knowingly create hegemonies of knowledge, prejudices and preferences in the system of geographical knowledge production within higher education institutes in India. thus making these spaces acquire a competitive nature rather than collegial practice. taking up space as an emerging scholar","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"898 - 900"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81528226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aesthetics of invisibility in Iranian women’s identity and their domestic space during the 1980s","authors":"Maryam Golabi","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2056146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2056146","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between the gendered identities of Iranian women and their domestic space in the first post-revolutionary decade (1980s) at a time when the influence of Islamic tenets on people’s lives was considerably higher than in the previous and subsequent decades. Contributing to feminist geography and providing an understanding of a regional reality, the aim of this article is to elaborate on how the redefined identities and bodies of Iranian women, which were considered central to the representation of the Islamic national identity in Iran during the 1980s, influenced the design and usage patterns of houses at that time. The paper adopts Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptual framework related to ‘social space’ and ‘physical space’, conceptualizing a house (physical space) as a translated form of social space. The article proposes the concept of the ‘aesthetics of invisibility’ to comprehend the identity of Iranian women and the domestic space in the 1980s. It uncovers the connection between the invisibility of the female body and domestic space through critical readings of contemporary printed and visual media, and also a study of 30 houses built in Tabriz during the 1980s. The paper reveals that for both Iranian women’s bodies and domestic space, their invisibility and seclusion from the public world are equated with aesthetics, which is often interwoven with morality in Iranian society. It shows that the redefinition of the identity of women, their appearance, and the codes of conduct and dress came with modifications to the street façades of houses, and the design, organization and use of interior spaces.","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"76 1","pages":"1616 - 1638"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83845230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating queer safe space: relational space-making at a grassroots LGBT pride event in Scotland","authors":"Andrew McCartan, C. Nash","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2052019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2052019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Queer safe space is commonly understood simply as space that is safe for queer people. In this paper we seek to develop a more nuanced conceptualisation of queer safe space attuned to how the process of creating space as simultaneously queer space and safe space can mean making compromises with both safety and queerness. Our research uses a case study of ‘Free Pride’ a grassroots LGBT Pride group in Glasgow, Scotland that sought to create a radical and inclusive event space, particularly for transgender people, but attracted controversy when it banned drag performers from the event, before reversing this decision. Drawing on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with the organizers of Free Pride, alongside online statements collected from those involved in the controversy, we show how the contradictions and complexities that arose from the group’s decision and its reversal highlights the contested political underpinnings of contemporary Pride events and the potentially fraught relations that can exist between certain identities within LGBT communities. Ultimately, Free Pride’s decision-making raised questions over how queer people relate to one another at Pride events, the inclusiveness of drag for trans identities, and the importance of seeing and being with one another in Pride spaces. We argue that although the process of queer space-making involved these complex and contradictory negotiations between safety and queerness, Free Pride ultimately created a queer safe space focused on queer collectivity.","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"74 1","pages":"770 - 790"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80025211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Just get on the pill: the uneven burden of reproductive politics","authors":"Cordelia Freeman","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2055916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2055916","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"IM-35 1","pages":"605 - 607"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84771687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Graphic migrations: precarity and gender in India and the diaspora","authors":"Amrita Datta","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2051318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2051318","url":null,"abstract":"kavita Daiya’s opening lines in ‘Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in india and the Diaspora’ sets the tone of the monograph that playfully captures the essence of historical, documented anecdotes with personal and intimate stories. From the very beginning the reader knows this is a book about a journey –both taken and missed. At some level, Daiya reminds me of Suketu Mehta’s This land is our land: An immigrants’ Manifesto (2019). At some other level, it resonates with my own experiences as an indian immigrant in Germany. This identification with the political and the personal – all at once with that one opening sentence is what makes Daiya’s book special, memorable and a keeper.","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"15 1","pages":"1497 - 1500"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87556273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender in the Australian innovation ecosystem: planning smart cities for men","authors":"Sophia Maalsen, Peta Wolifson, R. Dowling","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2053068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2053068","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The affinity for tech-driven solutions of ‘smart cities’ has been critiqued at length, as has the gender disparity in technology firms. This paper draws these literatures together along with our own data on Australia’s innovation economy – one that includes its spaces (incubators, accelerators and co-working hubs), events (‘hackathons’), and places (innovation districts). These three components are ubiquitous among smart city strategies across all levels of government. In this paper we examine the gendered landscape of the innovation economy and the strategic urban agenda to which it is tied. The paper draws on data collected through interviews conducted with women entrepreneurs around their experiences in Australia’s innovation economy. Drawing from policy documents and further interviews, our discussion mirrors their vignettes with an examination of the three innovation economy components using case studies from Australian smart city planning. In doing so, we illuminate how the gendered experiences of women in the innovation economy are entwined with the smart urbanism imperatives of high-growth, technology-focus, and the attraction of ‘talent’. Existing attempts to grapple with discrimination in the innovation economy are shown to reinforce gendered hierarchies, resulting in ‘smart cities’ designed for men. We argue that the gendered nature of the tech industries that underpin the innovation economy has implications for who the smart city is for.","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"141 1","pages":"299 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75031063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race in Post-Racial Europe: An Intersectional Analysis","authors":"Pallavi Gupta, J. Singh","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2051319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2051319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"105 1","pages":"508 - 512"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75675783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}