Queer Geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives

Book info: Queer Geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives (Hardcover, 366 pages) – Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025. Language: English.

This timely book explores queer geographies at a critical juncture of societal and disciplinary self-reflection and transformation. It raises questions of justice and progress in the face of complex and ongoing social exclusions and ecological crises that necessitate change both within and beyond queer geographies.

Leading experts incorporate the concepts of reorientation, relationality, replacement, and reconceptualization to provoke collaborative discussion across the globe, revisiting queer geographies’ accomplishments and reworking established concepts. Interdisciplinary in scope, the book provides visual interventions to advance the reconfiguration of queer geographies and invites fluidity, openness, and dialogue across and between disciplines. Ultimately, this book showcases new lines of geographical inquiry and debate to envision alternative disciplinary futures that amplify queer and trans voices while displacing authority and privilege.

Queer Geographies is an essential resource for scholars and students of sexual and gender minority life and queer theory, as well as women’s and gender studies, cultural and environmental studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.

Editorial Reviews Review ‘Quite simply, this volume queers queer-geography. As it well should. Through the imbricated themes of reorientation, relationality, re-placement, and reconceptualization this compelling book critiques and challenges, but it also proposes new and alternative futures. It is an outstanding collection.’ -- Michael Brown, University of Washington, USA

‘Queer geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives is as much about queer geographies as it is about the geographies that shape our understanding of the complexities of queerness. This empirically and intellectually rich anthology jointly edited by Alison L. Bain, Julie A. Podmore, and Chan Arun-Pina transforms scholarship on queer geographies through four provocative pillars: reorientations that unsettle tropes such as the closet metaphor; relationalities that probe queer kinship against systematic forces including racial capitalism; socio-spatial replacements that question intimacies in digitally networked spaces and the peripheries of ‘queerurbia’; and reconceptualisations that reconfigure disciplinary boundaries and deconstruct binaries between queer human and non-human geographies. The collection offers thoughtful treatises about various geographies, temporalities, and positionalities beyond Anglo-American hegemonies – from migrants’ perspectives of Copenhagen Pride to transnational narratives of LGBTQ+ liveabilities across India and Ireland, Toronto’s queer punk and rave scenes, to digital racism among gay Swedish men. Alongside Arun-Pina's “trans-imaging” interventions for each chapter contribution, this concerted effort proffers, indeed, contending perspectives that chart “queerer disciplinary futures”. This book belongs on the shelves of anyone who wants to understand more of queer worlds and selves.’ -- Martin Zebracki, Professor of Human Geography and Social Inclusion, University of Leeds, UK

‘This powerful and provocative book brings forward new lines of queer geographical inquiry and debate. Beautifully illustrated, the original artwork visually represents and introduces each chapter. The result is a stunning collection of chapters which reorient, relate, replace, and reconceptualize queer geographies. The chapters amplify queer and trans voices visually, multi-textually and artistically. There is no other queer geography collection like it!’ -- Lynda Johnston, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand About the Author Edited by Alison L. Bain, Professor of Geography, York University, Julie A. Podmore, Professor of Geosciences, John Abbott College, and Affiliate Assistant Professor, Concordia University and Chan Arun-Pina, Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar, York University, Canada