Week Three – Space

Posted on | February 15, 2012 | No Comments

Here are the readings for the last meeting of the Sexuality and Space/ Queer Thinking reading group, in which we will discuss a number of approaches for researching intimacy, space and scenes.

Everyone is welcome, and this week Elspeth Probyn will join us for the discussion along with some other department colleagues.

If you would like the readings emailed to you let me know – although most are already available online through academia.edu or other sources (tip: add “pdf” to a Google search…)

Don’t forget to register for our workshop and Sydney Ideas events on Friday, February 24… we need to be sure the rooms are the right size :-)

Gordon Waitt and Kevin Markwell, “Touring the Sexualized City” in Gay Tourism: Culture and Context, Haworth Press, 2006: 159-202

Kane Race, “Party animals: the significance of drug practices in the materialisation of urban gay identity” Forthcoming in S. Fraser and D. Moore (eds.) The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society. Cambridge University Press

Will Straw, “Systems of Articulation, Logics of Change: Scenes and Communities in Popular Music,” Cultural Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (October, 1991) 361-375.

Elspeth Probyn, “Glass Selves: Emotions, Subjectivity, and the Research Process” in S. Gallagher (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Self. Oxford UP. 2011.

Optional:

Guy Davidson,”‘Contagious Relations’: Simulation, Paranoia, and the Postmodern Condition in William Friedkin’s Cruising and Felice Picano’s The Lure.”  GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11.1 (2005): 23-64.

Judith Halberstam, “What’s that smell? Queer temporalities and subcultural lives” International Journal of Cultural Studies 6,3 (2003): 313–333

Elspeth Probyn, “Only connect? Communicating across the coreperipheries of geography and discipline”. Address to the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2011.

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