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- ISBN 9781517921743
- Weight: 113g
- Dimensions: 127 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 04 Aug 2026
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Rethinking space from the ground up through trans theory, philosophy, and radical possibility
Disorienting Phenomenology takes as its point of departure the trans mundane: entering a public restroom, moving through airport security, navigating professional spaces. These ordinary yet unsettling encounters become portals into urgent philosophical questions about space, embodiment, perception, power, and violence. Attending closely to how trans people experience everyday life, Eden Kinkaid shows that space is never neutral. It is felt, negotiated, and contested at the level of the body, shaping one's capacities, safety, and sense of self.
Weaving together philosophy, queer and trans studies, geography, and personal narrative, Kinkaid develops an intersectional theory of space grounded in lived experience. They bring the foundational spatial theories of Henri Lefebvre together with critical phenomenologies of gender, race, and disability to demonstrate how systems of oppression are built into the environments we inhabit, configuring movement and constraining possibility for minoritized people. Bold and interdisciplinary, Disorienting Phenomenology offers vital conceptual tools for understanding – and transforming – the worlds we move through each day.
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Eden Kinkaid is a postdoctoral fellow in human geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough and affiliate assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware.
