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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.
List of contents
Introduction
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
2. Queering the binary: The politics of the pre/post-1992 division in UK higher education
3. Co-operation not competition: On the queer potential of co-operative higher education
4. Collective study and the possibilities of becoming: Between a feminist space in Yerevan and the US university
Part 2: Redistributing queer inclusion in the raced and classed academy
5. Exploiting shared queer knowledge
6. WAGES AGAINST INCLUSION! FULL INCLUSION NOW! Towards a queer manifesto against LGBT+ inclusion in universities
7. Redistributing the light: From socio-scenography to company-and the formation of 125th & Midnight
8. Wanting more from OER: Enacting a queer of color commitment to open
Part 3: Confronting the shared silences of queer institutional spaces
9. Little strokes fell great oaks: Silences, meaning-making, and LGBTIQ+ forced displacement
10. Mentorship phenomenology: Queer sharing, opposition, and generosity
11. A novice feminist pedagogy: Community, accessibility, and lessons from online learning during COVID-19
12. More than rainbows: Creating and reframing queer spaces on college campuses
About the author
Churnjeet Mahn is Professor of English at the University of Strathclyde and a fellow of the Young Academy of Scotland (Royal Society of Edinburgh). Her publications include
Journeys in the palimpsest: British women's Travel in Greece 1840-1914 (2012) and the edited collection
Creativity and Resistance in a Hostile World (2020).
Matt Brim is Professor of Queer Studies at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. His books include
Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (2020),
James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination (2014), and the coedited
Imagining Queer Methods (2019).
Yvette Taylor is Professor of Education, University of Strathclyde, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Books include
Working-class Lesbian Life (2007),
Making Space for Queer Identifying Religious Youth (2015), and the co-authored
Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education: Interrupting Career Categories (2020).
Summary
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.
