Towards queering the globally intimate

Analyzing intimacy is in vogue across an array of disciplines. Geographers too have taken up intimacy, engaging it from a variety of perspectives and, as elsewhere, without agreeing on definitional properties. Conventionally understood as a site, space or scale, intimacy figures in (asymmetric) bina...

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Published in:Political geography 2017-01, Vol.56, p.114-116
Main Author: Peterson, V. Spike
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affect
Articulation
Conventions
Females
Feminism
Gender
Geographers
Geopolitics
Global householding
Hierarchies
Intellectuals
Intersectionality
Intimacy
LGBTQ studies
Migration
Pain
Property
Public sector private sector relations
Queer theory
Queering
Race
Sexes
Sexuality
Womens studies
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Summary:Analyzing intimacy is in vogue across an array of disciplines. Geographers too have taken up intimacy, engaging it from a variety of perspectives and, as elsewhere, without agreeing on definitional properties. Conventionally understood as a site, space or scale, intimacy figures in (asymmetric) binaries of global-local, national-familial and public-private. In contrast, Pratt and Rosner paired ‘the global and the intimate’ in a double issue of Women's Studies Quarterly and asked contributors to ‘disrupt traditional organizations of space, to forge productive dislocations, and to reconfigure conventions of scale’ (2006, p. 16). Their essays and related work expanded the range of inquiry and spurred further discussion of the global-intimate relationship, while other scholars explored intimacy through studies of emotion, sexuality, subjectification and the everyday (Harker & Martin, 2012; Oswin & Olund, 2010; Valentine, 2008). Most recently, Pain and Staeheli's (2014; also Pain 2014, 2015) articulation of ‘intimacy-geopolitics’ aims to dissolve the binary and its presumptive hierarchy of global-local.
ISSN:0962-6298
1873-5096
DOI:10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.01.001