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This volume explores the diversity and complexity of transgender
people’s experiences and demonstrates that gendered bodies are
constructed through different social, cultural and economic
networks and through different spaces and places. Rethinking
Transgender Identities brings together original research in the
form of interviews, participatory methods, surveys, cultural texts
and insightful commentary. The contributing scholars and activists
are located in Aotearoa New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, Catalan,
China, Japan, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. The
collection explores the relationship between transgender identities
and politics, lived realities, strategies, mobilizations, age,
ethnicity, activisms and communities across different spatial
scales and times. Taken together, the chapters extend current
research and provide an uthoritative state-of-the-art review of
current research, which will appeal to cholars and graduate
students working within the fields of sociology, gender studies,
sexuality and queer studies, family studies, media and cultural
studies, psychology, health, law, criminology, politics and human
geography.
Although the last decade has seen steady progress towards wider
acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer
(LGBTQ) individuals, LGBTQ residential and commercial areas have
come under increasing pressure from gentrification and
redevelopment initiatives. As a result many of these neighborhoods
are losing their special character as safe havens for sexual and
gender minorities. Urban planners and municipal officials have
sometimes ignored the transformation of these neighborhoods and at
other times been complicit in these changes. Planning and LGBTQ
Communities brings together experienced planners, administrators,
and researchers in the fields of planning and geography to reflect
on the evolution of urban neighborhoods in which LGBTQ populations
live, work, and play. The authors examine a variety of LGBTQ
residential and commercial areas to highlight policy and planning
links to the development of these neighborhoods. Each chapter
explores a particular urban context and asks how the field of
planning has enabled, facilitated, and/or neglected the specialized
and diverse needs of the LGBTQ population. A central theme of this
book is that urban planners need to think "beyond queer space"
because LGBTQ populations are more diverse and dispersed than the
white gay male populations that created many of the most visible
gayborhoods. The authors provide practical guidance for cities and
citizens seeking to strengthen neighborhoods that have an explicit
LGBTQ focus as well as other areas that are LGBTQ-friendly. They
also encourage broader awareness of the needs of this marginalized
population and the need to establish more formal linkages between
municipal government and a range of LGBTQ groups. Planning and
LGBTQ Communities also adds useful material for graduate level
courses in planning theory, urban and regional theory, planning for
multicultural cities, urban geography, and geographies of gender
and sexuality.
Although the last decade has seen steady progress towards wider
acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer
(LGBTQ) individuals, LGBTQ residential and commercial areas have
come under increasing pressure from gentrification and
redevelopment initiatives. As a result many of these neighborhoods
are losing their special character as safe havens for sexual and
gender minorities. Urban planners and municipal officials have
sometimes ignored the transformation of these neighborhoods and at
other times been complicit in these changes. Planning and LGBTQ
Communities brings together experienced planners, administrators,
and researchers in the fields of planning and geography to reflect
on the evolution of urban neighborhoods in which LGBTQ populations
live, work, and play. The authors examine a variety of LGBTQ
residential and commercial areas to highlight policy and planning
links to the development of these neighborhoods. Each chapter
explores a particular urban context and asks how the field of
planning has enabled, facilitated, and/or neglected the specialized
and diverse needs of the LGBTQ population. A central theme of this
book is that urban planners need to think "beyond queer space"
because LGBTQ populations are more diverse and dispersed than the
white gay male populations that created many of the most visible
gayborhoods. The authors provide practical guidance for cities and
citizens seeking to strengthen neighborhoods that have an explicit
LGBTQ focus as well as other areas that are LGBTQ-friendly. They
also encourage broader awareness of the needs of this marginalized
population and the need to establish more formal linkages between
municipal government and a range of LGBTQ groups. Planning and
LGBTQ Communities also adds useful material for graduate level
courses in planning theory, urban and regional theory, planning for
multicultural cities, urban geography, and geographies of gender
and sexuality.
Current planning practices have largely neglected the needs of the
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community for safe
urban spaces in which to live, work, and play. This volume fills
the gap in the literature on the planning and development of queer
spaces, and highlights some of the resistance within the planning
profession to incorporate gay and lesbian concerns into the
planning mainstream. Planning lags behind other disciplines
concerned with queer urban issues. In contrast, the field of
geography has developed a rich sub-specialty in the geographies of
sex and gender that examines spaces and the variety of
non-heteronormative populations that inhabit them. This volume
brings together both planners and geographers with experience in
planning to examine some of the fundamental assumptions of urban
planning as they relate to the LGBT community. The first few
chapters are substantial revisions and expansions of earlier
influential work on planning for non-conformist populations and the
preservation of LGBT neighborhoods. Subsequent chapters comprise
original contributions that draw on the rich literature from queer
theory, planning theory and the geography of sexualities to explore
the ways that nonconformist populations struggle with
heteronormative expectations embedded in planning theory and
procedures. These chapters consider the intersection of planning
and a range of populations including transgendered and gender
variant individuals. Subsequent chapters examine the ways that
variations in the scale of urban and regional governance influence
local politics around the implementation of more equitable policies
at the city level. In addition, several chapters critically examine
the implications of using the tolerance component of Richard
Florida's "creative cities" arguments. The final section consists
of two chapters that explore the ways that urban planning regimes
have been used to regulate sexually-oriented businesses and the way
this regulation of sexualized spaces has implications on the
heteronormativity of plans and planners. In summary, these chapters
interrogate planning practice and pose questions for academic and
professional planners about the ways that the queer community and
its needs for spaces have shifted. What do those changes mean for
the practice of planning 40 years after the North American
Stonewall rebellion and looking forward to the next 40 years? To
what extent does existing planning practice constrain the evolution
of queer communities or seek to commercialize such spaces to the
benefit of large developers and the detriment of marginalized
members of the community? How might planning practice change to
provide more direct support to the evolution of queer people and
the spaces in which they live? This volume draws on these insights
as well as the experiences of the various authors to lay out
possible future directions for the field of planning to create
truly inclusive urban areas.
This volume explores the diversity and complexity of transgender
people's experiences and demonstrates that gendered bodies are
constructed through different social, cultural and economic
networks and through different spaces and places. Rethinking
Transgender Identities brings together original research in the
form of interviews, participatory methods, surveys, cultural texts
and insightful commentary. The contributing scholars and activists
are located in Aotearoa New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, Catalan,
China, Japan, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. The
collection explores the relationship between transgender identities
and politics, lived realities, strategies, mobilizations, age,
ethnicity, activisms and communities across different spatial
scales and times. Taken together, the chapters extend current
research and provide an uthoritative state-of-the-art review of
current research, which will appeal to cholars and graduate
students working within the fields of sociology, gender studies,
sexuality and queer studies, family studies, media and cultural
studies, psychology, health, law, criminology, politics and human
geography.
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