Abstract
The Foucauldian notion of dividing practices is the focal point of this chapter. I will consider how spatial dividing practices are produced through an analysis of the regulation of sexualities in school spaces. More specifically, I turn my attention to the production of dividing practices that produce “safe spaces,” “queer spaces,” and that enable the production of subversive spatial acts that “imprint utopian and dystopian moments” (Munt 1995, 125) within and around high school settings in the United States. My aim is to interrogate some of the implications that ensue from these various attempts to produce spaces that construct and are constructed by the politics of identity. I will commence my analysis by elaborating upon my conception of Foucault’s notions of dividing practices and heterotopias.KeywordsYoung PeopleSexual IdentitySafe SpaceSafe SchoolSacred SpaceThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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