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Reflections on Queer Studies and Queer Pedagogy
title
Reflections on Queer Studies and Queer Pedagogy
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publisher
Routledge
publication year
2003
description
Recently I have heard colleagues and students alike comment upon the possible decline of queer theory. Some say that queer theory is no longer in vogue; others characterize it as fatigued or exhausted of energy and lacking in keen debates; still others wax nostalgic for an earlier moment in the history of queer studies in the academy and accuse a new generation of queer theorists of having dropped the ball on the politics of the queer project. These vague rumblings of queer theory and its discontents are accompanied by rumors of certain powerful university presses no longer having faith in queer publications. Is queer studies in some kind of slump? It is my distinct impression that queer studies has recently experienced a paradigm shift and that far from being over, queer studies in the academy is flourishing in the work of a new generation of scholars who have had the benefit of a training in queer theory at the graduate level. Much of the most exciting work in this new moment of queer studies refuses to see sexuality as a singular mode of inquiry and instead makes sexuality a central category of analysis in the study of racialization, transnationalism and globalization. Some of this work can be considered to define new fields such as queer ethnic studies, queer postcolonial studies and transgender studies
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reviewer
Katie Arthur
was created by
Halberstam, Jack