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EMOTION SPACE AND SOCIETY
Volume 14, Issue -, Pages 33-42Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2014.12.003
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Sexuality; 'Race'; Gender; Emotions; Manchester's Gay Village
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- Institute for Women's Studies at Lancaster University
- ESRC studentship [PTA-031-2006-00417]
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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. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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