Mutinous Eruptions: Autonomous Spaces of Radical Queer Activism

Gavin Brown
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Gavin Brown: Department of Geography, Bennett Building, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, England

Environment and Planning A, 2007, vol. 39, issue 11, 2685-2698

Abstract: This paper offers a reflexive ethnography of a set of queer autonomous spaces created in London over the last five years. It traces the political genealogies of a recent strand of radical queer activism that is broadly aligned with the anarchist and anticapitalist wings of the global justice movement. In line with the usage of the term ‘queer’ by these activists themselves, to refer to a variety of states of being that challenge both homonormativity and heteronormativity, this paper utilises a definition of ‘queer’ that moves beyond the ways in which it has been mobilised by many sexual geographers. The ethnography poses questions about the ‘queer’ in ‘queer geography’ and what it means to be an ‘activist’. This work considers the importance (as well as the limits) of these autonomous queer spaces. It suggests that the process of collective experimentation to build autonomous queer spaces is ultimately more transformative and empowering than the resulting structures.

Date: 2007
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