Queer Theory's Green and Grey: thinking queer absence through the nonsexual rural

酷儿理论的绿色和灰色：通过非性乡村思考酷儿缺席

• 批准号: 2505226
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2505226
• 关键词: Queer; Theory; Green; Grey; thinking

There is a geography to desire, and a queerness in rural life. This research will expand on this observation, looking at the queer affects, practices and relations found in rural areas. Scholarly work has long looked to urban centres as places where queer sex flourishes, implying that sex needs to be seen and performed in order to be understood. These highly-structured and performative ideas of 'urbanity' and 'sex' are challenged in this research, which attempts to find the 'grey' areas between sexual and non-sexual, somewhere and nowhere; and which stages an intervention into the literature, asserting the queerness of non-metropolitan, 'green' areas. Both non-metropolitan areas and non-sexual relations have been defined by lack or absence, yet through qualitative and creative methods, this research shows a richness of queer, spatial experiences and feelings that are distinct from dominant ideas of urban sexuality and worthy of study themselves. The research focusses on affects and relationships in rural gay, lesbian and queer networks that are distinct from sexuality, for example friendship, intimacy, romance, bachelorhood et cetera. I refer to these affects henceforth as 'nonsexual'. This approach will conclude upon the nature of space, sexuality, desire, absence and relations more broadly, contributing to queer theory, cultural geography and rural sociology in particular, but with relevance universally too. One cannot adequately conceptualise the non sexuality of the rural, or the geography of nonsexual queerness without the present research. It provides a mixed-methods approach including participant observation, non-structured and mobile interviews, autoethnography, and the creation of collaborative video portraits of participants. Novel and creative in both topic and methodology, the research is well suited to the University of Brighton, which has relevant research clusters such as the Centre for Transforming Gender and Sexuality, and a number of current postgraduate research projects that mix queer and creative approaches.

有令人向往的地理环境，也有乡村生活的怪异。这项研究将扩展这一观察，着眼于农村地区发现的酷儿影响、实践和关系。长期以来，学术工作一直将城市中心视为酷儿性行为蓬勃发展的地方，这意味着性需要被看到和表演才能被理解。这些高度结构化和表演性的“都市性”和“性”观念在这项研究中受到了挑战，该研究试图找到性与非性之间、某处与无处之间的“灰色”区域；它对文学进行了干预，主张非大都市的“绿色”地区的酷儿性。非都市地区和非性关系都被定义为缺乏或缺席，但通过定性和创造性的方法，这项研究展示了丰富的酷儿、空间体验和感受，这些体验和感受不同于城市性的主流观念，值得研究他们自己。该研究的重点是农村男女同性恋和酷儿网络中不同于性的情感和关系，例如友谊、亲密、浪漫、单身等。今后我将这些影响称为“非性”。这种方法将更广泛地总结空间、性、欲望、缺席和关系的本质，特别对酷儿理论、文化地理学和农村社会学做出贡献，但也具有普遍意义。如果没有目前的研究，人们就无法充分概念化农村的非性行为或非性酷儿的地理。它提供了一种混合方法，包括参与者观察、非结构化和移动访谈、自我民族志以及创建参与者的协作视频肖像。这项研究在主题和方法上都新颖且富有创意，非常适合布莱顿大学，该大学拥有相关的研究集群，例如性别和性行为转变中心，以及许多当前混合酷儿和创意方法的研究生研究项目。