Description
Queer Studies and Education: An International Reader explores how the category queer, as a critical stance or set of perspectives, contributes to opportunities individually and collectively for advancing (queer) social justice within the context and concerns of schooling and education. The collection takes up this general goal by presenting a cross-section of international perspectives on queer studies in education to demonstrate commonalities, differences, uncertainties, or pluralities across a diverse range of national contexts and topics, drawing a heightened awareness of heterodominance and heteropatriarchy, and to conceptualize non-normative and non-essentialist imaginings for more inclusive educational environments.Collectively, the chapters critically engage with heteronormativity and normativity more generally as a political spectrum, over a broad range of formal and informal sites of education, and against a backdrop of critiques of liberalism and neoliberalism as the frameworks through which "achievable" social change and belonging are fostered, particularly within educational settings. Taken together, the chapters assembled in Queer Studies and Education invite researchers, scholars, educators, activists, and other cultural workers to examine the multiplicity of contemporary (international) work in queer studies and education with readers' interpretations of queer's deployment across the chapters forming the compass for which to arrive at fresh insights and forms of (queer) critical praxis.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Reading Queer Studies and/in Education: International Contexts and PerspectivesNelson M. Rodriguez, Robert C. Mizzi, Louisa Allen, and Rob CoverChapter 1: Space, Place, and Queerness: The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus' Queer ZoningAdwoa Onuora and Nadeen SpenceChapter 2: A Queer Sexuality Education: The Possibilities and Impossibilities of KnowingNaomi RudoeChapter 3: Rupturing the 'Cul-de-Sac': Queer(y)ing Graduate Education StudiesJames Burford and Genine HookChapter 4: Racism, Heteronormativity, and Educational Assemblage in GermanyMaría do Mar Castro Varela and Yener BayramogluChapter 5: Queered Failure and Management EducationNick RumensChapter 6: Navigating Personal and Professional Identities in the Higher Education Workplace: A Facilitated AutoethnographyCraig M. McGill, Tonette S. Rocco, Joshua C. Collins, Lorenzo Bowman, Rod P. Githens, Holly M. Hutchins, Nathan Victoria, Saul Carliner, Gisela P. Vega, Julie Gedro, and Thomas NechodomuChapter 7: Shifting the Gaze: A Decolonial Queer Analysis of Photographs of the Canadian Indian Residential SchoolsSpy Dénommé-Welch and Robert C. MizziChapter 8: "No Queers, No Marching Bands": Schools, Social Recognition, and Gender Visibility on the Brazil-Bolivia BorderTiago Duque and Gustavo MouraChapter 9: Timely Interventions: Queer Activist Early Childhood Teaching in Aotearoa New ZealandAlexandra C. GunnChapter 10: Beyond 'Abstinence-Only': The U.S. Christian Right's 'Pro-Family' Countermovement against Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Eastern and Southern AfricaFinn Reygan and Haley McEwenChapter 11: Queering School Sport and Physical EducationRichard Pringle and Dillon LandiChapter 12: Queer Screen Pedagogies: Australian Queer Audiences and the Educational Value of LGBTQ Film and Television StoriesRob CoverChapter 13: The Possibilities and Futurities of LGBTQ Youth: Thinking from a Queer of Color Critique in Educational ResearchAndrea Vasquez and Cindy CruzChapter 14: An Assimilation or Transgression of 'Normativities': A Qualitative Sociological Exploration of the Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Students at a South African UniversityTshanduko Tshilongo and Jacques RothmannChapter 15: Norm-Critical Pedagogy as Femo- and Homonationalism: Perspectives on Norm Critique in Swedish Research, Activism, and Educational PracticeEva ReimersChapter 16: 'The Only Orange Park Bench': Using Photo-Elicitation to Explore Campus Experiences of LGBTIQA+ StudentsJohn Fenaughty, Lucy Cowie, and Louisa AllenChapter 17: Trans Children in Primary Schools: Thinking Queerly About Happiness and TimeAoife NearyChapter 18: Queer Love and EducationNelson M. Rodriguez and William F. PinarIndex
