Andrew Tucker BA MPhil PhD

Deputy Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies and Fellow of Jesus College

Career

2006 - 2007 ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Director of Studies in Geography at Jesus College

Qualifications

BA Department of Geography, University of Cambridge (2001)
MPhil Geographical Research, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge (2003)
PhD Department of Geography, University of Cambridge (2006)

Research

Research into the construction of queer sexualities has of late started to benefited from a critical engagement with post-colonial studies, critical race theory and development. A key strand of my work therefore explores the way sexualities, and specifically the social and political visibility of same-sex desires, have been understood and contested among communities with different racial histories in sub-Saharan Africa. This has led to the completion of a monograph (see below) on the historical, contemporary, multiple and interrelated racialised, classed and gendered dimensions of queer sexualities in South Africa.

I am also interested in the way health policies have been able to construct perceptions of risk among, between and about queer communities, with a specific focus on the way the HIV epidemic has lead to the re-formulation and deployment of moral geographies.

Publications

Tucker, A. (in press) 'Reframing sexual subjectivities and their political efficacy in the Global South: potential directions for future queer geographies of difference' Political Geography
Tucker, A., 2010. 'The 'rights' (and 'wrongs') of articulating race with sexuality: the conflicting nature of hegemonic legitimisation in South African queer politics' Social & Cultural Geography 11(5), 433-449
Tucker, A., 2010. 'Shifting boundaries of sexual identities: the appropriation and malleability of 'gay' in South African township spaces' Urban Forum 21(2), 107-122
Tucker, A., 2009. 'Review: African Intimacies by Neville Hoad' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 28(1), 187-189
Tucker, A., 2009. Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Tucker, A., 2009. 'Framing Exclusion in Cape Town's Gay Village: the Discursive and Material Perpetration of Inequitable Queer Subjects' Area

Teaching

Geography Part 1B

Cities

Geography Part II

The Historical Geography of the AIDS pandemic (Course Co-ordinator)

Joint Schools Social Science training

Ethnography, ethics and interviewing

MPhil in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies

Acting Assistant Director
Lecturer on Queer Theories and Masculinities