Tucker Andrew
African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Urban Forum (Johannesbg). 2023;34(2):155-167. doi: 10.1007/s12132-023-09496-w. Epub 2023 May 1.
This article outlines why there exist important opportunities to think through what research on African urban sexualities-and specifically non-heteronormative sexualities-may mean moving forward. By looking back at the text that largely focused on articulating some of the relationships between the urban and sexuality over a decade ago in Cape Town, this article suggests at least three key opportunities in which future scholarship may wish to explore African urban sexualities in the current moment. These opportunities circulate around new theoretical insights that emerge from the South that may speak to but are not beholden to theories from the North, the urgent need for further empirical work on the ways sexuality interfaces with urbanisation dynamics on the continent, and to think through and give space to broader approaches to document the relationship between sexuality and the urban that include but also extend beyond more 'traditional' social science methods. This article then explores these opportunities in relation to the interventions that follow in this special issue.
本文概述了为何存在重要契机，可深入思考关于非洲城市性取向——特别是非异性规范的性取向——的研究未来可能意味着什么。通过回顾大约十多年前在开普敦撰写的、主要聚焦于阐明城市与性取向之间某些关系的文本，本文提出了至少三个关键契机，未来的学术研究可能希望在当下探索非洲城市性取向。这些契机围绕着源自南方的新理论见解展开，这些见解可能与北方的理论相关，但并不受其束缚；迫切需要就性取向与非洲大陆城市化动态相互作用的方式开展进一步实证研究；以及思考并为记录性取向与城市之间关系的更广泛方法留出空间，这些方法包括但不限于更“传统”的社会科学方法。然后，本文结合本期特刊中的干预措施探讨了这些契机。
