Queer ecology: Nature, sexuality, and heterotopic alliances

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 727-747

  Gandy, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abney park cemetery; Heterotopia; Posthumanism; Queer ecology; Queer theory; Urban ecology; Urban nature; Urban political ecology

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; SEXUALITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84865379656     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: 14723433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d10511     Document Type: Article

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