Queer economic geographies: a roundtable discussion with Daniel Cockayne

Update: this event has been rescheduled to April 20, 2026 (4-6pm) at Room 1069, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St George St).

This panel facilitates a discussion of the Antipode paper “Queer economic geographies: sexual hegemony, queer and trans work, and homocapitalism” (2024) and associated work in economic geography and beyond that has, based extensively on feminist economic geography, sought to examine connections between queer and trans geography and theory and economic geography. It explores topics including the relationship between homophobia, transphobia, and labor market discrimination; how sexuality and gender identity have been instrumentalized by corporations; how sexuality and gender identity are related to class and property status; and the role of cisheteronormative futurity (based on marriage, procreation, and inheritance) within our dominant regimes of social reproduction. It also invites institutional questions about the state of the field of (economic) geography and the importance of thinking beyond traditional boundaries of economic thought. To think beyond these boundaries is both to produce new and better geographical knowledge, and to contribute to the project of reimaging who can and should be included in the (sub)discipline, in short, and to paraphrase Oswin (2020), to help to imagine “an other geography."

Speaker

• Daniel Cockayne, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

Discussants

• Natalie Oswin, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Scarborough
• Suzanne Mils, Associate Professor, McMaster University
• Michelle Buckley, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Scarborough
• Benjamin Owens, PhD Student, University of Toronto

Moderator

• Sergio Montero, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Scarborough

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