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Queer Impact and Practices brings together chapters arising from the third annual Queering Paradigms conference. Queer Theory is still evolving and extending the range of its enquiry. It maps out new territories via radical contestations of the categories of gender and sexuality. This approach de-centers assumptions of heteronormativity, but at the same time critiques a new homonormativity. This book incorporates the work of queer theorists and queer activists who are seeking new boundaries to cross as well as new disciplines and social relations to queer. The sections of this book interrogate the impact of Queer Theory in studies of culture, nationalism, ethnography, linguistics, psychology, intimacy and activism. Chapters address contemporary theorizing about gay citizenship and 'homonationalism' as well as a critique of gay visibility. Other topics include the symbolics of queer subversion and transgression in performers who transgress gender and sexuality codes. Queer activists extend their analysis into the world of punk, Buddhist religious teaching and Native Studies. This book demonstrates that Queer Theory, as well as being a disposition, is now deployed by many researchers as a legitimate framework of analysis that questions many of the categories, constructs and relationships we encounter in twenty-first century society.
List of contents
Contents: Kathleen O'Mara and Liz Morrish: Introduction: Queer Impact and Practices - Kyle Jackson: Imagining Homonationalism and Homophobia in Transnational Perspective: The Case of Canada and Jamaica - Enda McCaffrey: From Homographies of Invisibility to Hypervisibility: Queering and De-Queering City Centre Space - Kyle Pape: Between Queer Theory and Native Studies: A Potential for Collaboration - Anne Kustritz: Homonational, Queer Nation, Glam Nation: Adam Lambert and American National Imagery - Rebekah Delaney: Dred: How Kinging and Illusion Queer the Audience - Burkhard Scherer: Queer as Kagyu: Negotiating Dissident Identities in Neo-Orthodox Buddhist Spaces - Maria Katharina Wiedlack: «A Race Riot Did Happen!» (Shotgunseamstress 2009): Queer Punks of Color Raising Their Voices - William L. Leap: Queer Linguistics, International Perspectives and the Lavender Languages Conference: Rethinking Alterity - Elizabeth Sara Lewis: Queer Subversion or Heteronormative Reinforcement? Linguistic Performativity in the Identity Constructions of a Young, Bisexual-Identified Brazilian LGBT Activist - Julia Scholz: The Possibility of a Quantitative Queer Psychology - Donovan Lessard: Queering the Urban, Queering Ethnography: A Review of the Analytic Concept of Space in American Urban Ethnography and Queer Geography - Josefa D.B. Scherer: Queering Public Health: A Social Justice Perspective - Aleardo Zanghellini: Gay Surrogacy and Tahitian Adoption: How Queer is Queer Parenthood? - Kelley-Anne Malinen: Challenging the Male Perpetrator/Female Victim Paradigm: Thinking Gender Transgressive Rape - Joy Brooke Fairfield: Cuddle Parties(TM): The Queer Potential of Metonymic Space.
About the author
Kathleen O¿Mara is Professor of African and Islamic History, State University of New York (SUNY) at Oneonta, USA. Her recent research examines LGBT social practices and sexual identity in Ghana.
Liz Morrish is Principal Lecturer in Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research interests combine Queer Theory, linguistics and Cultural Studies.
