Queer Theory's Green and Grey: thinking queer absence through the nonsexual rural

有一种地理上的渴望，而乡村生活中有一种奇怪的东西。这项研究将在这一观察的基础上扩展，着眼于农村地区发现的奇怪的影响、做法和关系。长期以来，学术研究一直将城市中心视为同性恋性行为盛行的地方，这意味着需要看到和表演性行为才能被理解。在这项研究中，这些高度结构化和表演性的“都市性”和“性”概念受到了挑战，它试图在有性和无性之间、在某个地方和任何地方找到“灰色”区域；并对文学进行干预，断言非大都市的“绿色”区域是奇怪的。非都市地区和非性关系都被定义为缺乏或缺失，但通过定性和创造性的方法，这项研究显示了丰富的同性恋、空间体验和情感，这些都有别于城市性行为的主流观念，本身就值得研究。这项研究的重点是农村男女同性恋和同性恋网络中有别于性的情感和关系，例如友谊、亲密、浪漫、单身等。从今以后，我把这些影响称为“非性的”。这种方法将更广泛地总结空间、性、欲望、缺席和关系的性质，特别是对酷儿理论、文化地理学和乡村社会学的贡献，但也与普遍相关。如果没有目前的研究，人们就不能充分地概念化农村人的无性取向，或者无性同性恋的地理位置。它提供了一种混合方法，包括参与者观察、非结构化和移动采访、自传民族志以及创建参与者的协作视频肖像。这项研究在主题和方法上都具有新颖性和创造性，非常适合布莱顿大学，该大学拥有相关的研究集群，如性别转变和性行为中心，以及一些目前混合了同性恋和创造性方法的研究生研究项目。

There is a geography to desire, and a queerness in rural life. This research will expand on this observation, looking at the queer affects, practices and relations found in rural areas. Scholarly work has long looked to urban centres as places where queer sex flourishes, implying that sex needs to be seen and performed in order to be understood. These highly-structured and performative ideas of 'urbanity' and 'sex' are challenged in this research, which attempts to find the 'grey' areas between sexual and non-sexual, somewhere and nowhere; and which stages an intervention into the literature, asserting the queerness of non-metropolitan, 'green' areas. Both non-metropolitan areas and non-sexual relations have been defined by lack or absence, yet through qualitative and creative methods, this research shows a richness of queer, spatial experiences and feelings that are distinct from dominant ideas of urban sexuality and worthy of study themselves. The research focusses on affects and relationships in rural gay, lesbian and queer networks that are distinct from sexuality, for example friendship, intimacy, romance, bachelorhood et cetera. I refer to these affects henceforth as 'nonsexual'. This approach will conclude upon the nature of space, sexuality, desire, absence and relations more broadly, contributing to queer theory, cultural geography and rural sociology in particular, but with relevance universally too. One cannot adequately conceptualise the non sexuality of the rural, or the geography of nonsexual queerness without the present research. It provides a mixed-methods approach including participant observation, non-structured and mobile interviews, autoethnography, and the creation of collaborative video portraits of participants. Novel and creative in both topic and methodology, the research is well suited to the University of Brighton, which has relevant research clusters such as the Centre for Transforming Gender and Sexuality, and a number of current postgraduate research projects that mix queer and creative approaches.