Queerburbia: Lgbtq2s Suburban Place-Making

List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, 1. Place-making/unmaking/remaking, 2. Representing, 3. Including, 4. Serving, 5. Resisting, 6. Organizing, 7. Living, 8. Dreaming, 9. Re-placing, References, Index

Alison Bain is a Professor of Geography in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto, Canada and is a North American Managing Editor for the Urban Studies Journal. 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 The Creative Margins: Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs, and co-editor of the book The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities, two editions of the textbook Urbanization in a Global Context, and the forthcoming books Queer Geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives and Co-Authoring Feminist and Queer Geographies: Collaborations, Mentorships, Solidarities, Friendships.

Julie Podmore is a College Professor in Geosciences at John Abbott College and Affiliate Assistant Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She is an urban socio-cultural geographer who adopts a feminist, queer historical approach to the study of urban/suburban processes. She is co-editor of Lesbian Feminism: Essays Opposing Global Heteropatriarchies, The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities and the forthcoming Queer Geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives.