A Queer Theory of Housing Politics: on gentrification and chrononormativity
3:30pm - 4:30pm /
Wednesday 23rd March 2022
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
- Dr Claire Pierson
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Perhaps surprisingly, given the marginalisation of sexuality in the disciplines of both geography and politics, theories of ‘gay gentrification’ have gained critical purchase in the minds of academics, policymakers and the general public. And yet as recent research highlights, this focus on gay gentrification elides the housing experiences of the majority of LGBTQIA+ people whose gendered, classed and raced positions make them more likely gentrified than gentrifier. Indeed, the sexual politics of gentrification implicates a range of people - beyond any acronym - whose ways of living, working and surviving marks them as the constitutive outside to sexual normativity, and thus subject to displacement and disciplining. Building from this argument, in this research seminar I elaborate a queer theory of housing politics that moves us beyond the gayborhood and the white, middle-class gay male gentrifier. In particular, I explore the resistant potential of queer theories of temporality, bringing the concept of ‘chrononormativity’ (Freeman 2010) into dialogue with feminist and crip urban politics as a way of articulating the injustices of the present and imagining other futures.