Seeing The Untold, Speaking The Invisible: Lesbian Co-Formations In Milan

Nessi, Cecilia

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Seeing The Untold, Speaking The Invisible: Lesbian Co-Formations In Milan

Nessi, Cecilia

2021 • In Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 112 (2), p. 135 - 149

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Co-formations; lesbian; Milan; urban encounters; Whiteness; Geography, Planning and Development; Economics and Econometrics

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[en] This paper investigates how lesbian spaces in Milan are created, inhabited and reproduced in order to explore the existing ways of being lesbians, here and now. I reflect on how scholars can un/intentionally reinforce or challenge the dominant viewpoints of understanding difference. I use the concept of co-formations, a non-linear approach to intersectionality, that focuses on the relationality of difference and takes space and time into account. I argue that what is excluded from space is also excluded from the identities shaped by the same space. To conclude, I reflect upon the responsibilities and the possibilities presented by taking a critical and racialized White positionality seriously.

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Sociology & social sciences

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Nessi, Cecilia ; Université de Liège - ULiège ; Urban and Local European Studies (URBEUR), University of Milan Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social Research, Milan, Italy

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English

Title :

Seeing The Untold, Speaking The Invisible: Lesbian Co-Formations In Milan

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April 2021

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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

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0040-747X

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1467-9663

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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112

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135 - 149

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