ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|66 pages
Cooperating and caring within and against the marketized university
chapter 1|14 pages
In search of the cracks in the system
chapter 2|15 pages
Queering the binary
chapter 3|19 pages
Co-operation not competition
chapter 4|16 pages
Collective study and the possibilities of becoming
part 2|72 pages
Redistributing queer inclusion in the raced and classed academy
chapter 6|19 pages
Wages Against Inclusion! Full Inclusion Now!
chapter 7|20 pages
Redistributing the light
part 3|68 pages
Confronting the shared silences of queer institutional spaces