Andrew Tucker

Queer Visibilities (eBook, ePUB)

Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town.

• Explores the interface between queer sexuality, race, and urban space to show links between groups of queer men
• Focuses on three main 'population groups' in Cape Town-white, coloured, and black Africans
• Discusses how HIV remains a key issue for queer men in South Africa
• Utilizes new research data-the first comprehensive cross-community study of queer identities in South Africa

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444399776
• Artikelnr.: 38306532

Autorenporträt

Andrew Tucker lectures at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. He earned his PhD from the department and has also held an Economic and Social Research Council of the UK Postdoctoral Research Fellowship there. He has spent several extended periods of time in South Africa for research.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables.
Series Editors' Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1 Queer Visibilities in Cape Town.
Part I Visibilities.
2 Legacies and Visibilities among White Queer Men.
3 Coloured Visibilities and the Raced Nature of Heteronormative Space.
4 How to be a Queer Xhosa Man in the Cape Town Townships.
Part II Interactions.
5 Social Invisibilities.
6 Political Invisibilities (and Visibilities).
7 The Costs of Invisibility.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Rezensionen

"This attention to the materiality of the city, as well as therelational complexities of historical and contemporary interactionsbetween queer men from different racialised backgrounds is one ofthe major strengths of this book. Queer Visibilities offersvaluable lessons for sexual geographers and urban geographers alikeand deserves to be widely read." (Area, 2011)

"Tucker successfully resists closing down debate, carefullyqualifying his points without qualifying them out of existence. Hisassessments are many, detailed and well substantiated by interviewquotations. One is unable to comprehensively review the manyvaluable insights he brings here. Read the book." (Book SouthernAfrica, September 2010)"Queer Visibilities is amuch-needed intervention in the geographies of sexualities. Drawingupon extensive ethnographic and archival work, it provides atheoretically sophisticated examination of the interconnectedpolitics of class and race in the production of sexualised spacewithin contemporary Cape Town."
-Jon Binnie, Manchester Metropolitan University

"How can we understand the closet if we do not understand ourvisibilities? Tucker has provided an impressive study driven byintellectual parley between geography, queer theory, postcolonialand development studies. This book adds to the already powerfulqueer geographies on a fascinating place as well as to debatesaround queer globalisations."
-Michael Brown, University of Washington