What’s good sex? Reflections on body mapping with gay, bisexual, and queer men in Ghana
About the seminar
In the seminar, Dr Joe Strong will showcase his recent work conducting body mapping exercises with gay, bisexual, and queer men in Ghana on their sex lives, health, and politics. He will discuss body mapping as method, share his experiences on the complexities of conducting these interviews, and present some of the maps produced and participant’s reflections on the process. The seminar engages with alternative modes of qualitative data collection around complex and personal topics and considers their application in social science research.
About the speaker
Dr Joe Strong is a feminist, critical demographer at Queen Mary University of London. His research interrogates the causes and consequences of sexual and reproductive injustice and has covered issues of abortion, masculinities, and queerness across a range of global contexts. His current Leverhulme Fellowship explores the politics of knowledge production in sexual and reproductive health and rights, examining how silences are produced, maintained, and the implications of these.
About the chair
Ernestina Coast is Professor of Health and International Development in the Department of International Development. Her research is multidisciplinary and positioned at an intersection of social science approaches including health, gender and development. As a social scientist with training in demography and anthropology, her research uses mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) to understand the inter-relationships between social context and health-related behaviours, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health.
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