Queering Higher Education - Troubling Norms in the Global Knowledge Economy

Drawing on empirical data from diverse international contexts this book examines sites of affective antagonisms, fragility, and friction, and explores whether queer theory can provide alternative readings of contemporary pathways, pedagogical and research cultures, political economies, and policy priorities with higher education.

About the author

Louise Morley, FacSS, is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education and former Director of the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER) (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/) at the University of Sussex, UK. Louise has published and presented widely and she has an international reputation in the field of higher education studies (see http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/view/creators/461.html).
Daniel Leyton is Lecturer of Education at the University at the University of Exeter. His recent publications include Neoliberalising Working-class Subjectification through Affirmative Action Policies: Managerial Leadership and Ontological Coaching in Higher Education (2022) in Journal of Education Policy and The Un/methodology of ‘Theoretical Intuitions’: Resources of Generations Gone Before, Thinking and Feeling Class in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, with Valerie Hey and Sarah Leaney.

Summary

Drawing on empirical data from diverse international contexts this book examines sites of affective antagonisms, fragility, and friction, and explores whether queer theory can provide alternative readings of contemporary pathways, pedagogical and research cultures, political economies, and policy priorities with higher education.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Leyton, Louise Morley, Louise Leyton Morley, Morley Louise
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032190334
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3219033-4
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Foundations and Futures of Education
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; EDUCATION / General, Sociology, Moral and social purpose of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Moral & social purpose of education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher