Queer(ing) Urban Space

Queer(ing) Urban Space: Histories, Tactics, and Futures in a Glocal World brings together case studies on queerness and queering in urban spaces across diverse global contexts.

Engaging with power, narrative, and desire, it responds to calls for new urban epistemologies beyond Western normative frameworks. The volume foregrounds intersections between Global North and South, exploring how colonial legacies, legal regimes, and spatial politics shape queer life. While research on queer access to public space has focused on Western cities, this book highlights underexplored contexts in the Global South, offering critical insights into how queerness challenges, negotiates, and reimagines the cis-heteronormative logics of urban modernity.

ISBN: 9798888909256

Publication date: February 2, 2027

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures and Tables
Preface

1 Introduction
 Jessica A. Albrecht and Sanchali Sarkar

Part 1 Creating the Queer in Urban Space

2 Pinay Femmes Dwelling in Hesitation: Spatiality Tactics in Urban Manila
 Claudia C. Lodia

3 “Only Northeast Contact”: Navigating the Racialisation of Northeast Indians on Gay Dating Apps in Delhi
 Lobsang Norbu Bhutia

4 Breaking the Surface: Unveiling Water Security Along the Gender Spectrum in Urban Landscapes
 Subham Mukherjee and Trude Sundberg

Part 2 Disrupted Space

5 Challenging “the Queer”: Elite Girls’ Schools as Queer Heterotopias in Urban Sri Lanka
 Jessica A. Albrecht

6 Can a Feminist City Be More than Gender-Just? Assessment Through the Lens of India
 Srestha Chatterjee

7 London Liberties: the Metropolis Through the Eyes of Victorian Writer Amy Levy
 Ruth Quante

Part 3 Queer Desires and Futures

8 Spaces of Minoritised Epistemologies
 Maya Nitis

9 Towards the Liberation of ‘Terf Island’? a Phenomenological Approach to Gender(s) and Space(s) in Britain
 Paul Thompson

Index