Working Title of PhD: Carving out space for queer* subjectivities beyond the fear/safety binary
Year commenced PhD study: 2021
Institution/Organisation: University of Edinburgh
Funding: College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Award (Law) PhD Scholarship
Full or part-time: Full-time
PhD Supervisors: Prof Richard Sparks and Dr Rae Rosenberg
Synopsis of PhD
The project constitutes an effort to give materiality to some queer* subjectivities within the criminological, and wider academic, discourse about fear and safety and how these interact with the space(s) one occupies. It interrogates the predominant sociopolitical, as well as epistemological, perception of linearity from fearful/normative/oppressive/exclusionary spaces to safe/queer/emancipatory/inclusive ones, as the trajectories of queer* lives are rarely linear. This PhD will use qualitative, participatory methods in hopes of allowing queer* people to manifest their own imaginings of queer* safe spaces. The term ‘queer’ is marked with an asterisk to denote this project’s aspiration to address its multiple shortcomings when employed as a linguistic, conceptual and analytical tool in research.
themes: Safe spaces Fear of victimisation Queer criminology
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