Co-authoring Feminist and Queer Geographies (Routledge Spaces of Gender, Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Series)

The book explores co-authored dynamics of collective knowledge production in feminist and queer geographies. It examines how to use co-authorship as a generative feminist practice of care, endurance, and institutional transformation in support of feminism’s next generation of intellectual communities.

This book reveals the auto-biographical back-stories and emotional registers of geographical knowledge production through the co-written chapter intimacies of letters, poetry, interviews, and conversations. In doing so, it demonstrates the care-full and hope-full power of collaborations, mentorships, solidarities, and friendships to not only sustain lives and careers but also to enable social change. It confronts neoliberal reification of individual scholarship as the celebrated metric of academic productivity and presents co-authorship as a practice and politics of generating hope through the dynamics of collective care that its collaborations, mentorships, solidarities, and friendships manifest and sustain.

This is an interdisciplinary book at the interstices of Geography, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Education, Sociology, Women’s and Gender Studies, and LGBTQ+ Studies. Its intended audiences are scholars of pedagogy, feminist and queer theory, and sexual and gender minority life. It targets upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, writers, and educators.

Alison L. Bain is a professor of Geography in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is an urban social geographer who studies the inequalities of contemporary urban and suburban place-making through the lens of artistic practice and spatialized identity politics. She is the author of Creative Margins: Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs and co-author of the book Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S Suburban Place-Making. In collaboration, she has co-edited The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities, two editions of the textbook Urbanization in a Global Context, and the book Queer Geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives. She has been a North American Managing Editor with the Urban Studies Journal since 2017.

Lynda Johnston is a professor of Geography at the University of Waikato, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Lynda and Petra Doan recently edited: Rethinking Transgender Identities (2022, Routledge). In 2020 Lynda worked with Anindita Datta, Peter Hopkins, Elizabeth Olsen, and Joseli M. Silva editing the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies. Previous editorial experiences include: Editor of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (2011–2016). Editorial board member experience includes: Emotion, Space and Society (2014–continuing); Revista Latino-Americana de Geografia e Gênero (2017–continuing); and, Social and Cultural Geography (2009–2019). Lynda is the Aotearoa New Zealand representative for the International Geographical Union.

Chen Misgav is a teaching fellow at the Open University in Israel and teaches in several other academic institutes without a proper tenure position due to homophobia. He has published extensively on feminist and sexual issues in geography and urban planning. Chen has co-edited three special issues: “Gendered Diversity in a Globalized World” (with Prof. Tovi Fenster and Dr. Orna Blumen) for Hagar – Studies in Culture, Polity and Identities (2013); “Contemporary Queer Urban Movements” (with Dr. Gilly Hartal) for Geography Research Forum (2019); and, in Hebrew, “Activism and Knowledge” (with Dr. Ruthie Ginsburg) for Mafte'akh – Lexical Review of Political Thought (2021). He is co-author (with Dr. Gilly Hartal) of the forthcoming book Spaces of LGBTQ+ Politics, Activism and Social Relations: Centers in Israel.

Joseli M. Silva is a senior research professor at the State University of Ponta Grossa and a visiting professor at the Geography Postgraduate Program at the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil. She is the coordinator of the Territorial Studies Group dedicated to the study of gender, sexualities, and space. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Latin American Journal of Geography and Gender and is currently the Chair of the Gender Commission of the International Geographical Union. She works as a volunteer at the NGO Renascer, which fights for the human rights of the LGBTQIA+ population.