Queer Visibilities by Andrew Tucker

Queer Visibilities by Andrew Tucker

The ending of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 ushered in the dawn of a new era. Virtually overnight, a visionary new constitution prohibiting discrimination based on race, gender, and sexual orientation ensured true equality for all.

"This attention to the materiality of the city, as well as the relational complexities of historical and contemporary interactions between queer men from different racialised backgrounds is one of the major strengths of this bookQueer Visibilities offers valuable lessons for sexual geographers and urban geographers alike and deserves to be widely read." (Area, 2011)

"Tucker successfully resists closing down debate, carefully qualifying his points without qualifying them out of existence. His assessments are many, detailed and well substantiated by interview quotations. One is unable to comprehensively review the many valuable insights he brings here. Read the book." (Book Southern Africa, September 2010)"Queer Visibilities is a much-needed intervention in the geographies of sexualities. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and archival work, it provides a theoretically sophisticated examination of the interconnected politics of class and race in the production of sexualised space within contemporary Cape Town."
–Jon Binnie, Manchester Metropolitan University

"How can we understand the closet if we do not understand our visibilities? Tucker has provided an impressive study driven by intellectual parley between geography, queer theory, postcolonial and development studies. This book adds to the already powerful queer geographies on a fascinating place as well as to debates around queer globalisations."
–Michael Brown, University of Washington

Andrew Tucker lectures at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. He earned his PhD from the department and has also held an Economic and Social Research Council of the UK Postdoctoral Research Fellowship there. He has spent several extended periods of time in South Africa for research.

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ISBN 13	9781405183024
ISBN 10	1405183020
Title	Queer Visibilities
Author	Andrew Tucker
Series	Rgs-Ibg Book Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2008-12-19
Number of pages	258
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.