Queer Studies: Methodological Approaches.
Robert Kulpa and Mia Liinason
Recent publications in queer studies point towards several directions, such as the dimension of “anti-social”-ity of “queer”, temporalities of non-normative desires, and
geographies of non-Western sexualities. Clearly “there is something in the air” around these issues, which quickly became noticeable from the abstracts we received for consideration for
publication. Problems of contextualizations of queer; the reception in non-English speaking contexts where “queer” is an empty word without history and negative connections; the
impact of spatial and temporal contexts on queer formation and academic practises of story telling and a problematisation of privileges, positionality and canon setting in queer studies of
today – are the hot topics... [read more...]
Index [PDF]
Editorial
Mia Liinason and Robert Kulpa, Queer Studies: Methodological approaches pp. 1-4 [PDF]
Articles
- Tiina Rosenberg
Locally Queer. A Note on the Feminist Genealogy of Queer Theory pp. 5-18 [PDF]
- Liv Mertz
“I am what I am?” - Toward a Sexual Politics of Contingent Foundations pp. 19-34 [PDF]
- Michela Baldo
Queer in Italian-North American women writers pp. 35-62 [PDF]
- María Amelia Viteri
‘Latino’ and ‘queer’ as sites of translation: Intersections of ‘race’, ethnicity and sexuality pp. 63-87 [PDF]
- Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen
Queer ethnography in theory and practice: Reflections on studying sexual globalization and women’s queer activism in Beijing pp. 88-116 [PDF]
- Linn Sandberg
The Old, the Ugly and the Queer: thinking old age in relation to queer theory pp. 117-139 [PDF]
- Judith Halberstam
The Anti-Social Turn in Queer Studies pp. 140-156 [PDF]
Book Reviews
- Della Porta, Donatella and Michael Keating (eds) (2008) Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences. A Pluralist Perspective. Review by François Briatte (pp.157-161) [PDF]
- McGarry, Molly (2008) Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America. Review by Julia DeLeon (pp.162-165) [PDF]
- Lisa, Rofel. (2007) Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture. Review by Ben Chia-Hung Lu (pp.166-170) [PDF]
- Driver, Susan. Ed. (2008) Queer Youth Cultures. Review by Mark Carrigan (pp. 171-175) [PDF]
- Horncastle, J (2008) Queer Bisexuality: Perceptions of Bisexual Existence, distinction and Challenges. Review by Allison Moore (pp. 176-179) [PDF]
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