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

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posted on 2023-06-09, 03:15 authored by Nina Held
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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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Published version

Journal

Emotion, Space and Society

ISSN

1755-4586

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

14

Page range

33-42

Department affiliated with

  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-10-04

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-10-04

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