Description
This collection contributes to an understanding of queer theory as a "queer share," addressing the urgent need to redistribute resources in a university world characterized by stark material disparities and embedded gendered, racial, national, and class inequities.
From across a range of precarious and relatively secure positions, authors consider the changing politics of queer theory and the shifting practices of queers who, in moving from the margins toward the academic mainstream, differently negotiate resources, recognition, and returns. Contributors engage queer redistributions in all tiers of the class-stratified academy and across the UK, the US, Australia, Armenia, Canada, and Spain. They both indict academic hierarchy as a form of colonial knowledge-making and explore class contradictions via first-generation epistemologies, feminist care work in the pandemic, Black working-class visibility, non-peer institutional collaborations, and student labor.
The volume reflects a commitment to interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical approaches and methodologies across anthropology, Black studies, cultural studies, education, feminist and women’s studies, geography, Latinx studies, performance studies, postcolonial studies, public health, transgender studies, sociology, student affairs, and queer studies. This book is for readers seeking to better understand the broad class-based knowledge project that has become a defining feature of the field of queer studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Yvette Taylor, Matt Brim, and Churnjeet Mahn
Part 1: Cooperating and caring within and against the marketized university
1. In search of the cracks in the system: Feminist and queer scholarship in education and the marketized university in Spain
Alejandro Caravaca, Ingrid Agud-Morell, and Mauro C. Moschetti
2. Queering the binary: The politics of the pre/post-1992 division in UK higher education
Aura Lehtonen
3. Co-operation not competition: On the queer potential of co-operative higher education
Malcolm Noble
4. Collective study and the possibilities of becoming: Between a feminist space in Yerevan and the US university
Tamar Shirinian
Part 2: Redistributing queer inclusion in the raced and classed academy
5. Exploiting shared queer knowledge
Mary Zaborskis
6. WAGES AGAINST INCLUSION! FULL INCLUSION NOW! Towards a queer manifesto against LGBT+ inclusion in universities
Maddie Breeze and Darcy Leigh
7. Redistributing the light: From socio-scenography to company—and the formation of 125th & Midnight
Rommi Smith
8. Wanting more from OER: Enacting a queer of color commitment to open
Karen Zaino
Part 3: Confronting the shared silences of queer institutional spaces
9. Little strokes fell great oaks: Silences, meaning-making, and LGBTIQ+ forced displacement
Tina Dixson and Renee Dixson
10. Mentorship phenomenology: Queer sharing, opposition, and generosity
Ela Przybyło
11. A novice feminist pedagogy: Community, accessibility, and lessons from online learning during COVID-19
Jenny Rossberg and Alexandra Stamson
12. More than rainbows: Creating and reframing queer spaces on college campuses
Jeffrey Eppley and Chad Mandala
