Joe Jukes: Look & Look Again - Surprise, Affect & Queer Rurality

In this, our second episode on Affect, queer theorist and cultural geographer Joe Jukes asks, "What is ‘rural’?" Joe notes how the British countryside can be thought of, and has been produced, in multiple different ways and in many different forms. They suggest that ‘rural’ is an affect, or feeling, that is aligned with a queer mode inquiry. This can be a surprising ‘use’ of rural, especially as the countryside is often assumed to be unaccommodating to queer or LGBT+ lives. Staying with both affect and queer theory, Joe explores how the feeling of ‘surprise’ can perform queer desire, and un-do rural space, opening it up to new possibilities.BIOGRAPHYJoe Jukes is a Techne-funded PhD researcher at the Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender, University of Brighton. Their study involves a creative ethnography of LGBT+ Somerset, asking whether the countryside can be thought of as a queer place, and how living in the West Country feels for queer people. Joe has curated for the Museum of English Rural Life, written for CPRE – the countryside charity, and co-convenes the postgraduate and community conference, Outside/rs 2022.CREDITSPresented by Julien Clin.Produced by Polly Hember and Julien Clin.Original art by Jonathan Mansfield: https://jonathanmansfieldart.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jsdjukesOutside/rs 2022: https://twitter.com/Outsiders2022Royalty free music generously shared by Steve Oxen. FesliyanStudios.comExtracts from 'Little Britain' created and written by Matt Lucas and David Walliams. Produced by the BBC.The Technecast is funded by the Techne AHRC-DTP, and edited by Polly Hember, Julien Clin & Felix Clutson.Contact: [email protected] / @technecast