ABSTRACT
Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics seeks to address some of the most recent developments in geographies of sexualities and to gesture towards a number of initial questions, directions and tensions that are currently emerging from this exciting and proliferating field of study. The book considers these ongoing developments in light of the continuing influence of ‘queer theories’ upon geographies of sexualities, and it asks what possibilities are offered by this intersection of ideas. It explores a host of themes – sexualised difference, social relations, institutions, desires, spaces – but does so through the framework of three interlinking perspectives: theory, practices and politics. Sexual geographers work in a diverse theoretical and political terrain, often dominated by different aspects of queer theory. Their eagerness to engage with concrete social relations and practices in their research means that their insights are materialistic, spatialised and affective. It is through this focus on the materialistic, spatialised and affective that sexual geographers help to contribute something both distinctive and innovative to broader thinking on sexual difference, relations and desires. One of the aims of this book is to create a space for a consideration of the emerging implications that are raised by such contributions, theoretically, empirically and politically.
