Queer Geographies
QUEER GEOGRAPHIES explores key events, sites, thinkers, and texts shaping the social, personal, and intellectual landscapes of queer geographies.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Describe the history of and key perspectives and debates in Queer Studies and Queer Theory.
Read and research theoretical scholarship.
Describe strategies for developing and conducting theory-driven research.
Identify approaches to researching socio-spatial topics.
Compose and edit academic theoretical/critical scholarship.
Recall the key issues in recent socio-spatial theory and the implications for, refractions through, and/or reactions by broader contemporary intellectual movements.
Identify pedagogical strategies for guiding classroom discussions.
Develop a personalized set of approaches to mediating challenging geographical, critical, and theoretical concepts for a broad range of learners.
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Explores several key events, sites, thinkers, and texts that contribute to the social, personal, and intellectual landscapes of Queer Geographies. An invitation to survey and reflect on queer critical strategies that sample, record, and remix constellations of relationships between theory, space, sexuality, gender, and identity. It foregrounds modes of queer spacing and placemaking in academic and popular works devoted to queer lives, studies, sexualities, narratives, publics and privates, joys and griefs, art, theory, and beyond. Offers a range of strategies for reading, interpreting, and developing nuanced scholarly interventions and theories. Question and reimagine normative notions of the personal, the social, and the socio-spatial.
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Topics
- Queer spacing and placemaking in academic and popular works
- Reimagining normative notions of the personal, social, and socio-spatial
- History, perspectives, and debates in Queer Studies and Queer Theory
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- Developing and composing academic theoretical and critical scholarship
- Describing strategies for theory-driven research
- Identifying pedagogical strategies for guiding classroom discussions
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