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Published on: November 5, 2015
Sexual place, spatial change, and the social reorganization of sexual culture
Brian C Kelly1, Miguel A Muñoz-Laboy
1Columbia University, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, 722 W. 168th St., 9th Floor, New York, NY 10032, USA. bck12@columbia.edu
Abstract:
This paper describes how the landscape of a public place in a New York City park embodies larger external structures within which sexual subjects actively organize local sexual culture. Controlling the configuration and utilization of such space is a technique of power used by the state apparatus. Based upon ethnographic fieldwork, we describe how the sexual culture situated within this public space is produced and reproduced in the micro-social practices of sexual subjects in the face of structural constraints. The social reorganization of sexuality occurs when subjects creatively refashion their local sexual culture through subtle alterations in the way they practice it. Such practical alterations occur in dialogue with larger structures. Ultimately, this analysis of sexual space in San José Park provides for an examination of the deployment of power and local sexual culture as the nexus of structure and agency.
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