#queer geographies

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Queer Geographies, 111

First, a rhetoric of orientation encompasses the fusion of the symbolic and material, but we cannot anticipate how those two might align in queer articulations of space and place. ... Rather than celebrate alignments as the a priori configuration of rhetorical processes, what difference would it make to integrate mis-alignment, incoherence, or non-intelligibility as worthy rhetorical performances? ... Further, each of these books underscore the necessity of thinking through space not just temporally, but through deep time and the residual, underscoring the activating presence of palimpsests of cultural and ecological landscapes within contemporary queer rhetorics and culture.

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Queer Geographies, 105

As I’ve previously argued, the instability of norms within environments necessitates a shift from a rhetoric of identification to a rhetoric of orientation. Paired with a rhetorical cartography, orientation maps the circulation of power as it shapes large social worlds such as the suburbs, and the concomitant ways that micro-movements generate queer desires and pleasures.

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Queer Geographies, 102

Working with the assumption that space fundamentally operates as a medium of power, orientation enables rhetorical critics to hold the multiplicities of spatiality while simultaneously adhering to the notion that the final consequence of rhetorical process or action does not necessarily mean coherence, legibility, or lining up in “straight” line. To enliven the spatial turn in rhetorical studies, queer geographies do not merely trace queer identities in space, but also center how racialized sexualities structure the very conditions of possibility for public modes of being.

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Queer Geographies, 99-100

Drawing from three recent monographs that foreground an array of queer geographies across scale and region, this review essay challenges some of the taken for granted assump- tions about space, place, and mobility in rhetorical studies. Broadly, the concept of queer geographies refers to historically and geographically specific relationships between race, class, sexuality, gender, space and place. More acutely, queer geography traces how queer subjectivities are not external to, but instead emplaced within particular environments, cross-border migrations, and diasporic flows. In turn, the study of queer space, place, and movement necessitates a more robust examination of rhetorical concepts, including subjectivity, agency, invention, memory, and emotion alongside the generation of intimacies. More specifically, I imagine the topoi of queer geographies as a confluence of queer and environmental rhetorics that works to redress both the queer impoverishment of spatial scholarship alongside Pezzullo’s invitation to address how environmental matters often are taken for granted in shaping publics and public cultures.

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Queer Geographies, 99

This review essay asks how the field of rhetorical studies can center intersectional queer and trans perspectives within conversations about space, place, mobility, and mapping. What difference does it make to center queer and trans sensibilities, bodies, and practices as central to the production of spatialities? How has our criticism contextualized the study of space and place in ways that would inhibit centering queer positionalities, temporalities, public cultures, and intimacies?

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Queer Geographies, 99

More so, as Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Catalina de Onís note, the turn to space or environmental topoi in situ signals a growing ecological awareness from which to examine social and planetary precarity. Space matters. Space is alive, dynamic. Space is a medium of power. These are foundational tenets of a rhetoric of space and place that have been well established. And yet in accounting for orientations of spatiality as a social process or struggle over belonging, queer and trans perspectives on the matter seem to have fallen off the map.

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Cram, „Queer Geographies and the Rhetoric of Orientation“

Cram, E. (2019). Queer geographies and the rhetoric of orientation. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 105(1), 98-115. doi:10.1080/00335630.2019.1553587

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Queer Geographies: Remapping Hispanic Studies 

The Hispanic Studies Department of the University of Puget Sound invites you to participate in the X Annual Spanish Matters Colloquium on Cultural and Literary Studies in the Hispanic World that will take place at our campus in Tacoma, WA, on Thursday, April 2 and Friday, April 3, 2015.

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