In this episode, Emma Spruce, Teaching Fellow in Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights at the Department of Gender Studies (LSE) talks about their research on queer spaces in London with a focus on Brixton. In particular, they discuss the role of sexual progress narratives and experiences of LGBTQ+ sexuality in contemporary debates on urban change and urban activism in London.
Their interdisciplinary scholarship broadly follows two trajectories to explore ‘Transnational LGBTQI Rights Imaginaries’ and ‘‘Queer’ Claims to Space’. Embedding an intersectional, transversal and empirical approach, this research crucially argues for an analysis of the colonial sexual politics of rights, elaborates a queer-feminist critique of urban inequality and injustice, and provides a unique account of the contested meanings and practices that surround LGBTQI claims to space.
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- Spruce, E. (2016), Bigot Geography: Queering Geopolitics in Brixton, In S. Avery & K.M. Graham (Eds.). Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London, c. 1850 to the Present (pp. 65–80). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved May 4, 2021, from http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474235006.ch-005
- Spruce, E. (2021). The place of transversal LGBTQ+ urban activisms. Urban Studies, 58(7), 1520–1528. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020986063
- Spruce, E. (2020). LGBTQ situated memory, place-making and the sexual politics of gentrification. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 38(5), 961–978. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820934819
