Confusing the grid: spatiotemporalities, queer imaginaries, and movement
2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 21; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/0966369x.2013.802666
ISSN1360-0524
Autores Tópico(s)LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
ResumoAbstractMediating between queer theory's privileging of time as actor and geographic emphases on material spaces and identities, this article engages feminist geographies and the work of Deleuze and Guattari to understand the implications of time and space as imagined, or actors' spatiotemporal imaginaries. We draw on Massumi's metaphor of the 'grid,' which sediments ways of seeing self and other and logics for action and interaction. The grid incites imaginaries of time as active and space as passive, which evoke past, present, and future, offering coordinates for locating identities. Focusing on spatiotemporality, we conduct a discourse analysis of interviews with two Chilean lesbian-feminist activists, focusing on (1) overtly spatial and temporal dimensions (nation, region, history), (2) the constitution of lesbian space and identity (identity, visibility, consciousness, and community), and (3) oppositional entities that stabilize lesbian identity and space (men, gay men, feminists, universities, and queer). We demonstrate how the activists' imagining of Chile as a space with a linear history with a fixed past and present directs their actions to a particular future of pre-given positions. Nonetheless, we point to moments of disidentificatory movement that returns analytic attention to process, creation, and the open potentiality of movement. The politics of spatiotemporal imaginaries offers activists, geographers, and queer theorists ways of narrating sexualized subjects and politics that are not repetitive of identitarian debates, history as necessary sequence, or spaces as material.Confundir la red: espaciotemporalidades, imaginarios queer, y movimientoMediando entre el privilegio que da la teoría queer al tiempo como actor y el énfasis geográfico sobre los espacios e identidades materiales, este artículo utiliza geografías feministas y trabajo de Deleuze y Guattari para comprender las implicancias del tiempo y el espacio como imaginados, o imaginarios espaciotemporales de los actores. Nos apoyamos en la metáfora de Massumi de la 'red', la cual sedimenta formas de verse a sí mismo y al otro y lógicas de acción e interacción. La red incita imaginarios del tiempo como activo y del espacio como pasivo, lo que evoca pasado, presente y futuro, ofreciendo coordenadas para localizar identidades. Centrándonos en la espaciotemporalidad, llevamos a cabo un análisis de discurso de entrevistas con dos activistas lesbianas-feministas chilenas, focalizándonos en (1) dimensiones abiertamente espaciales y temporales (nación, región, historia), (2) la constitución del espacio y la identidad lesbianos (identidad, visibilidad, consciencia, y comunidad), y (3) entidades oposicionales que estabilizan la identidad y el espacio lesbianos (hombres, hombres gays, feministas, universidades, y queers). Demostramos cómo los imaginarios que tienen los activistas sobre Chile como un espacio con una historia lineal con un pasado y un presente fijos dirigen sus acciones hacia un futuro específico de posiciones pre-determinadas. De todas maneras, señalamos momentos de movimiento desidentificatorio que retorna la atención analítica al proceso, la creación, y la potencialidad abierta del movimiento. La política de los imaginarios espaciotemporales ofrece a lxs activistas, geógrafxs y teóricxs de la teoría queer, formas de narrar sujetos y política sexualizados que no son repetitivos de debates identitarios, la historia como una secuencia necesaria, o espacios como material.混淆网格:空间时间性、酷儿的想像与运动本文斡旋于偏好时间做为行动者的酷儿理论以及地理学强调物质空间与认同,涉入女性主义地理学和德勒兹及瓜塔列的作品,以理解空间与时间做为想像的、抑或行动者的时空想像之意涵。我们运用马苏米的'网格'隐喻,该隐喻沉淀了观看自我及他者的方式,以及行动和互动的逻辑。网格鼓动着将时间想像为活跃的、空间想像为被动的,并召唤了过往、现在与未来,为身份认同的定位进行调节。我们聚焦空间时间性,对两位智利女同性恋—女性主义社会运动者的访谈进行论述分析,并聚焦(1)公然的空间与时间面向(国家、区域、历史),(2)女同性恋空间与身份认同的构成(认同、能见度、感知以及社群),以及(3)稳定女同性恋认同及空间的对立性实体(男性、男同性恋者、女性主义者、大学,以及酷儿)。我们将证明,社会运动者将智利想像为一个具有线性历史的空间,其中有着固着的过往和当下,如何将她们的行动引导至有着既定立场的特定未来。但我们仍然说明消解身份认同运动的时刻,该运动将分析的注意力转回过程、创造,以及运动的开放潜能。空间时间想像的政治,提供了社会运动者、地理学者和酷儿理论者叙述性化的主体和政治的方式,这些叙事方式并不重复同一性的辩论,将历史视为必然的序列,或是空间视为物质的。Keywords:: spatiotemporalimaginariesqueerlesbian-feministactivismPalabras claves:: espaciotemporalimaginariosqueerlesbiana-feministaactivismo关键词::: 空间时间想像酷儿女同性恋—女性主义者社会行动主义 AcknowledgementsThis research was supported by a Research Initiation Grant from Georgia State University. We thank the journal's three anonymous reviewers for their insights on earlier drafts of this article, and offer a particular thanks to Lynda Johnston for her gracious editorial skills throughout the process.Additional informationNotes on contributorsSusan TalburtSusan Talburt is Director of the Institute for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. She has published in the fields of curriculum studies, qualitative research, higher education, youth studies, and gay and lesbian studies. Susan's books include Subject to Identity: Knowledge, Sexuality, and Academic Practices in Higher Education (SUNY Press, 2000), and the co-edited Thinking Queer: Sexuality, Culture, and Education (Peter Lang, 2000), Youth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion, and Insubordination in and Out of Schools (Palgrave, 2004), and Keywords in Youth Studies: Tracing Affects, Movements, Knowledges (Routledge, 2012).Claudia MatusClaudia Matus is Associate Professor of Curriculum at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, where she teaches courses on curriculum theory, diversity, and internationalization of education. Her recent work on space, time, neoliberalism, and globalization has appeared in Discourse and Disability and Society.
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