ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how sexuality and space studies have empirically enriched Pahl's work on its own terms and examines the spaces of urban politics, following central intellectual trends of queer theory. It describes the ontologies implicit and explicit in urban political geography and draws queer theory and post-humanist interventions to reimagine an urban political ecology that attends to sexualities and intimacies excessive to the human subject. Queer scholars have redefined the spaces or 'arenas' of urban politics, opening up the conceptual and empirical spaces of home, neighbourhood, 'public' and 'private' and body. Queering urban political ecologies extends these insights to consider the ways gendered and sexualized political processes and struggles circulate through, manifest within, and mutually constitute urban natures. Queering urban political ecologies also reconceptualizes the 'structures' of urban politics. The political possibilities of these queer urban ecologies unfold in ways that expand 'the political' beyond the human.
