Bloomsbury Academic
Locating Queer Histories: Places and Traces Across the UK
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- Matt Cook
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Hardcover
- 9781350143722
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- History > Europe - Great Britain - Victorian Era (1837-1901)
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Ranging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history. And in demonstrating how localities and regions are queered, the chapters tackle a broad range of themes herein from migration, movement and multiculturalism; idealised places of escape; the distinctive queer social and political scenes of different cities; and the ways in which places have been reimagined through locally led community history projects. Through this, the book challenges traditional LGBTQ histories, which have tended to conceive of queer experience in the UK as a comprising a homogeneous, national narrative.
Foregrounding the voices of LGBTQ-identified people through a synthetic analysis of letters, diaries, TV interviews and oral testimonies, this book sheds light on their experiences in Britain; chiefly, how they were shaped, and indeed differentiated, through a complex relation with locality.
Author Bio
MAtt Cook, Ph.D. is an economist, composer, Los Angeles Times bestselling author, and executive film producer based in Los Angeles. He tells stories through writing, music, magic, and numbers.
As an economist, he has worked in entertainment finance and founded a government transparency organization. Drawing from experience in over 130 countries, he enjoys infusing his musical compositions with international intrigue. As a close-up magician trained at the Magic Castle, he has performed in Hollywood and often weaves sleight of hand into his talks and lectures. For his support of the military, he was personally honored by President George W. Bush with the Presidential Call to Service Award.
Matt's thrillers include Sabotage (a Los Angeles Times bestseller) and Good Little Marauder (a historical thriller); his nonfiction includes Sleight of Mind (on paradoxes), The Startup Star, and more. He was educated at Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania. Outside of his creative work, Matt is also a divemaster and pilot of land and sea planes.
Source: MattCook.com
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