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(Re)making the Other, Heterosexualising Everyday Space

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  • Kath Browne

    (School of the Environment, Cockcroft Building, Lewes Road, Brighton, Sussex BN2 4GJ, England)

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In this paper I develop conceptions of sexualised space as continually becoming by exploring the (re)creation of heterosexual spaces through the processes of power that hierarchise sexualities and how they are narrated. I seek to gain insights into the subtle operations of power between momentary enactments and stabilised manifestations of power. Central to this are the (invisiblised and unnamed) microlevel processes and the ‘common sense’ assumptions. In the empirical research I interrogate how twenty-eight nonheterosexual women discuss their experiences of eating in restaurant spaces to examine othering processes, rather than solely relying on categories of difference or named discriminations in theorising the (re)formation of spaces. From this it is possible to render the contingency of heterosexualised spaces visible, if reiterated and congealed in part (and para-doxically) through an absence of naming. I conclude by contending that focusing on (re)productive practices could expand our understandings of the hierarchical (re)construction of space.

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  • Kath Browne, 2007. "(Re)making the Other, Heterosexualising Everyday Space," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 39(4), pages 996-1014, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:39:y:2007:i:4:p:996-1014
    DOI: 10.1068/a38165
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    1. Coen, Stephanie E. & Rosenberg, Mark W. & Davidson, Joyce, 2018. "“It's gym, like g-y-m not J-i-m”: Exploring the role of place in the gendering of physical activity," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 196(C), pages 29-36.

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