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Territorial Inequality Driven by Tourism: A Queer Mapping of Urban Space in Acapulco, Mexico
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Abstract Drawing on the life stories of nine LGBTTTIQ-identified people who have lived in Acapulco (Guerrero, Mexico), this article provides a queer mapping of this city, peripherally situated in the Global South yet with longstanding entangled transnational connections. The frame for this analysis is the co... view more
Drawing on the life stories of nine LGBTTTIQ-identified people who have lived in Acapulco (Guerrero, Mexico), this article provides a queer mapping of this city, peripherally situated in the Global South yet with longstanding entangled transnational connections. The frame for this analysis is the concept of "territorial inequality," a term coined by urbanism scholar Óscar Torres Arroyo, whose seminal work examined the emergence of this southern Mexican city as an urban space formed through a process of socioeconomic segregation driven by tourism. This article also responds to the call of queer urban scholars to look beyond the metropole for spaces of the political theorized on their own terms. In Acapulco, class, race, and nationality intersect with sexuality in ways that have made it a destination for some queers while also dangerous and unpredictable for others, a segregated sociopolitical space where norms of masculinity have collided with multiversal expressions of sexuality imbued with patterns of exploitation. A key destination during the 20th-century rise of international tourism and a place now securitized as "violent," this urban space is also the site of evolving LGBTTTIQ movements, communities, and shifting patterns of queer life and queer tourism. This article reconsiders proposals made by queer theorists such as Lionel Cantú and Jasbir Puar regarding the complicated role of tourism in shaping sexualities, urbanization patterns, and state practices structured through colonial, neoliberal, and liberational processes, to theorize queer dimensions of the development of this city.... view less
Keywords
Mexico; organized crime; segregation; public space; violence; gender; inequality; tourism; urban development
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Free Keywords
LGBTTTIQ; queer tourism; territorial inequality
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 249-261
Journal
Urban Planning, 8 (2023) 2
Issue topic
Queer(ing) Urban Planning and Municipal Governance
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed