The Graduate Journal of Social Science (GJSS)
is an international, interdisciplinary journal, aiming at providing examples of and discussions over pluralism in methodology. The journal is peer reviewed and published by the Amsterdam University Press twice a year.For more details please look at: http://www.gjss.org
Special Issue (December 2008):
Queer Studies: Methodological Approaches
Special issue editors: Robert Kulpa and Mia Liinason.
Special issue advisory board: Judith Halberstam, Tuula Juvonen and Tiina Rosenberg
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Queer Studies: Methodological Approaches
Mia Liinason and Robert Kulpa
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 became quickly noticeable from the abstracts we have received. 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. The following selection of eight contributions is the first of the two planned. Thus, we are happy to announce now that GJSS will be publishing a follow up issue on queer methodologies in March, to accommodate another set of interesting papers we have received.
The content of December 2008 issue follows a certain logic that emerged from submitted papers. The opening article of acclaimed academic Tiina Rosenberg on queer genealogies is followed by the series of papers dealing with issues of self-reflexivity, intersections, dispersion, and accommodations of “queer” to non-Western (English) contexts. The closing articles scrutinise identity and materiality of objects and bodies, to be metaphorically summarised in Judith Halberstam's article on “non-identification” and “negativity” of “queerness”. [read more...]
Index [PDF]
Editorial
Mia Liinason and Robert Kulpa, Queer Methodologies? 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]. - Maria A. Viteri,
‘Latino’ and ‘queer’ as sites of translation: Intersections of ‘race’, ethnicity and sexuality, pp. 63-87 [PDF]. - Elisabeth Enbebretsen,
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, Julia, (2008), ‘Queer Bisexuality: Perceptions of Bisexual Existence, distinction and Challenges’ Review by Allison Moore (pp. 176-179) [PDF].
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