Queer Premises

Name: Queer Premises
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781350324855
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LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s

By Prof. Ben Campkin

Summary

Queer Premises explores the vital social and cultural infrastructure—termed "queer infrastructure"—that connects generations and places within London's LGBTQ+ communities. It examines how venues such as bars, cafés, nightclubs, pubs, and community centres have been imagined, created, and sustained from the 1980s to today, analysing their roles, challenges, and the reasons behind their closures.
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Ideal for students and scholars of urban studies, queer theory, sociology, and LGBTQ+ history, as well as urban planners and anyone interested in the cultural and social fabric of London's queer spaces.

Offers evidence for how London’s diverse LGBTQ+ populations have embedded themselves into urban space, systems and resources.

Offers evidence for how London’s diverse LGBTQ+ populations have embedded themselves into urban space, systems and resources.

Description

Queer premises provide vital social and cultural infrastructure – a queer infrastructure – connecting different generations and locations, facilitating the movement of resources, across and beyond the city.

Queer Premises offers evidence for how London’s diverse LGBTQ+ populations have embedded themselves into urban space, systems, and resources. It sets out to understand how, across their different material dimensions, bars, cafés, nightclubs, pubs, community centres, and hybrids of these typologies have been imagined, created, and sustained.

From the 1980s to the present, Campkin asks how, where, and why these venues have been established, how they operate and the purposes they serve, what challenges they face, and why they close down.

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Praised as a "terrific book" offering authoritative insights into the forces shaping London’s queer venues, Professor Campkin's analysis reshapes queer urban studies. Reviewers highlight its detailed examination of queer nightlife and urban governance as a "tour de force" illuminating the collective placemaking efforts of LGBTQ+ communities.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350324855

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 484g

Pages: 296

Collections

Education & Reference European History History & Archaeology History & Military LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction Prof. Ben Campkin

About the Author

Ben Campkin is the author of Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in London, which in 2014 won the Urban Communication Foundation Jane Jacobs Award and was Commended in the Royal Institute for British Architects President’s Awards for Research. Ben is Professor of History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK, and Co-Director of UCL’s Urban Laboratory.