Andrew Tucker BA MPhil PhD

University Lecturer and Fellow Commoner of Jesus College

Career

2006 - 2007 ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

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., 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

Andrew Tucker BA MPhil PhD

University Lecturer and Fellow Commoner of Jesus College

Career

Qualifications

Research

Publications

Teaching

Geography Part 1B

Geography Part II