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In the light of the extensive awareness within feminist and queer research advocating co-existence and situated knowledge, we turn towards an urban framework of such understanding of queer lives in Copenhagen. Despite its queer-friendly narrative, the lived embodied experience of queer lives in Copenhagen is and has historically been neglected in urban planning practice and academia. Therefore, we investigate what neglected narratives of queer residents of Copenhagen reveal about the embodied lived experience within the city, and how they can enrich the current planning practice. We do so through a critical queer phenomenological framework (Ahmed, 2006; Koefoed & Simonsen 2020), and through the acknowledgement of Donna Haraway’s (1988) stand on situated knowledge, we approach the narratives through the works of Leonie Sandercock (2003), Kirsten Simonsen (2005), and Judith Butler (1990, 1993). Through our research, we find that unfolding queer narratives are crucial as they contain valuable insights into the embodied lived lives in Copenhagen for a planning practice that emphasizes co-existence. |
