Abstract
In this introduction to the themed section, we begin to explore how queer and precarity might be used to analyse how vulnerabilities are constituted across diverse spaces. We situate the contents of the themed section in relation to the context in which it was worked on, defined by the Covid-19 pandemic and the increased precarisation of Higher Education workers in the United Kingdom, as well as current literature on queerness and precarity. The interdisciplinary articles that follow are the work of early career feminist and queer scholars. We introduce them as grappling with a range of manifestations of precarity and their intersections with various categories of identity that might be recognisable as queer. Foregrounding navigations of embodied and structural aspects of precarity, these articles highlight the practices and relationalities that can emerge from being ‘out of place’, as well as specific opportunities and limitations of the aesthetic, and share a concern with the masking of difference as a function of precarity, including via broad analytic categories such as ‘precarious’ and ‘queer’.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1199–1208 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Gender, Place and Culture |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| Early online date | 16 Nov 2023 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Funding
Funding for the workshop from which this themed section is drawn was provided by the Spaces, Sexualities and Queer Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) - through a Research Group grant awarded by the RGS-IBG - as well as the University of Oxford Queer Studies Network and the Oxford School of Geography and the Environment. We are grateful also to Yvette Taylor and Sneha Krishnan, who acted as discussants in the online version of the workshops, offering valuable critical engagement with the contributions.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Funding for the workshop from which this themed section is drawn was provided by the Spaces, Sexualities and Queer Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) - through a Research Group grant awarded by the R | |
| University of Oxford Queer Studies Network |
Keywords
- Queer
- inequality
- precarity
- transgender
- vulnerability