A Queer Journey to Queer Geography: Interview with Lawrence Knopp. DOI: 10.5212/Rlagg.v.2.i1.146150

Abstract

Since July 2010, Argentina are the position of Latin American vanguard in recognizing the right of same sex couples to civil marriage. In addition to the legitimization of equality in the public sphere between homosexual and heterosexual, the fact implies the subversion of the heteronormative character of marriage and family formation, which creates a demand for change from the perspective of understanding of social relations that rules the bonds of dependency between people forming family units. The transformations in terms of citizenship and queer politics pose challenges to the various social sciences, including by geography. In this effervescent context that we have the honor of interviewing Larry Knopp, one of the most important geographers of contemporary queer theory, questioning what makes his practice on academic space, sexuality and citizenship also a political struggle.

Larry Knopp held a doctorate in geography from the University of Iowa in 1989 and is currently director of the School Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington - Tacoma. Larry Knopp has as one of their most frequent partners in the production of numerous articles and book chapters the geographer Michael Brown. Together they have raised challenges involving the geography with social justice, politics and citizenship related to sexuality. From this interview we hope that the ideas of Larry Knopp will spread in the geographical community in Latin America, in order to establish a productive dialogue in various places where there is interest in the approach of Queer Geography.