Being between binary: Personal narratives and power geometry: A visual essay

Carruthers Thomas, Kate (2021) Being between binary: Personal narratives and power geometry: A visual essay. Sexualities. ISSN 1363-4607

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Abstract
Being Between Binary is a visual critical auto-ethnography, combining collage, cartoon, narrative and photomontage in the form of a four-page A2 scrapbook. Conceptually and materially, the design combines map and memoir, placing Massey’s concept of power geometry into dialogue with personal experiences of sexuality and gender. The piece explores binaries and geographies of here/there, Global North/South, through a lens of borderlands, boundaries and crossings, modelling dissemination as a fluid space of continuing enquiry. This visual essay first contextualises the making of the piece as creative fieldwork, matching ‘a synthesis of shattered fragments’ (Davis 2008: 250), then presents images of the work with brief commentary.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.1177/13634607211013665
Dates:	Date Event 30 March 2021 Accepted 27 April 2021 Published Online
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sexuality, gender, power geometry, map, collage
Subjects:	CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-01 - sociology, social policy and anthropology > CAH15-01-02 - sociology CAH26 - geography, earth and environmental studies > CAH26-01 - geography, earth and environmental studies > CAH26-01-03 - human geography
Divisions:	Life and Health Sciences > Psychology Law and Social Sciences > Criminology and Sociology > Criminology Law and Social Sciences > Criminology and Sociology > Sociology
Depositing User:	Kate Thomas
Date Deposited:	06 May 2021 14:31
Last Modified:	04 Aug 2025 12:59
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/11578

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