Show Notes
Let's talk about geography. Not just the maps, mountains and rivers that we might remember from our school textbooks, but the everyday task of being professional geographers in the world. Eden Kinkaid joins the podcast this week to discuss queer and trans phenomenology and how this has a bearing on being queer and trans within the discipline of Geography.
Shownotes: The Production of Space (Henri Lefebvre, 1974) Splinter Collective https://splintercollective.org/ “Whose geography, whose future? Queering geography’s disciplinary reproduction” in Dialogues in Human Geography (Kinkaid, 2024) “An other geography” in Dialogues in Human Geography (Oswin, 2020) “The words they’ll use against you: A glossary for navigating white cishetero institutions”, via GEOZONe (Kinkaid, 2024): https://geoz.one/zines/the-words/ How to Foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Geography: Theory, Praxis, and Shaping our Future (Chen and Eaves, 2024) “On surviving a cis discipline” in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (Rosenberg, 2023) Space invaders: Race, gender and bodies out of place (Puwar, 2004) “Reflections on a cis discipline” in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (Gieseking, 2023) “Reflections on a white discipline”, in The Professional Geographer (Pulido, 2002) Geography Zine Organising Network, GEOZONe “Queering feminist geography I: queer/trans inclusion, exclusion, and belonging”, in Gender, Place and Culture (Queer Feminist Geography Collective, 2025) “Queering feminist geography II: working through and working against trans-exclusionary feminisms”, in Gender, Place and Culture (Queer Feminist Geography Collective 2025) “Queering feminist geography III: calling all allies and accomplices”, in Gender, Place and Culture (Queer Feminist Geography Collective, 2025) “Queering feminist geography IV: toward queer and trans-feminist coalition”, in Gender, Place and Culture (Queer Feminist Geography Collective, 2025) Order Eden’s book, “Disorienting Phenomenology: Queer Space and Trans Life”, through University of Minnesota Press: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921743/disorienting-phenomenology/
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