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Comfortable and safe spaces? Gender, sexuality and 'race' in night-time leisure spaces

Held, N

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This article aims to contribute to the fields of emotional geographies and geographies of sexualities by exploring the relationship between emotions and gender, sexuality, and ‘race’ in sexualised night-time leisure spaces. By drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Manchester's Gay Village, the article highlights the importance of taking into account intersections of social identities when exploring how people feel in certain spaces. It explores how relations of ‘othering’ work through emotions, in particular how people are othered through feelings of comfort and safety. Whilst these feelings are triggered by a particular reading of bodies and spaces, they also produce bodies and spaces that are gendered, sexualised, and racialised (and classed). The article offers a rethinking of comfort and safety as not just feelings individuals have but as being constitutive of sexual, gender, and racial subjectivities and spaces.

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Held, N. (2015). Comfortable and safe spaces? Gender, sexuality and 'race' in night-time leisure spaces. Emotion, Space and Society, 14, 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2014.12.003

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 18, 2014
Online Publication Date Jan 9, 2015
Publication Date Feb 1, 2015
Deposit Date Oct 26, 2021
Publicly Available Date Oct 26, 2021
Journal Emotion, Space and Society
Print ISSN 1755-4586
Publisher Elsevier
Volume 14
Pages 33-42
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2014.12.003
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2014.12.003
Related Public URLs http://www.journals.elsevier.com/emotion-space-and-society/

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