Abstract
AbstractIn this paper, I explore how trans people's lives have been conceptualised and researched in human geography. I begin by contextualising trans people's lived experiences in Britain, before recognising trans studies as a distinct field that must continue to shape geographies of trans lives and ontologies. I then consider more recent research in queer geographies which foregrounds trans lives under the ‘trans geographies' banner. I examine how space has been conceptualised in such research and demonstrate the methodological and conceptual absences and failings and problematic approaches that geographical research often perpetuates, arguing that work remains to ensure our research works with and is responsive to or developed by trans people. The paper concludes by calling upon geographers to recognise the diversities and potentialities of trans people's everyday lives and develop intersectionally‐attentive and reciprocal geographical research around trans lives, bodies, and spaces.
Highlights
TRANS SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND TRANS LIVES GLOBALLY AND IN BRITAINThis paper examines how geographers have explored trans people's1 lived experiences, bodies, subjectivities, and encounters, and encourages geographical researchers committed to trans liberation to undertake intersectionally‐ attentive2 research around trans lives
These concerns are critical in social science research which largely remains premised on problematic approaches to trans experiences
I argue that this understanding, highlighting certain trans studies scholars' relative failure to account for the agency embedded in, or exerted by, space over how trans lives are lived, illustrates the value of geographical conceptual approaches— those attentive to socio‐materialities—in their potential ability to enliven existing work around trans people's experiences within, across, and between the spaces they encounter
Summary
TRANS SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND TRANS LIVES GLOBALLY AND IN BRITAINThis paper examines how geographers have explored trans people's1 lived experiences, bodies, subjectivities, and encounters, and encourages geographical researchers committed to trans liberation to undertake intersectionally‐ attentive2 research around trans lives. I argue that this understanding, highlighting certain trans studies scholars' relative failure to account for the agency embedded in, or exerted by, space over how trans lives are lived, illustrates the value of geographical conceptual approaches— those attentive to socio‐materialities—in their potential ability to enliven existing work around trans people's experiences within, across, and between the spaces (and the temporalities) they encounter.
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