[csaa-forum] cfp: The cultural politics of queer theory in educational research

[Mary Lou Rasmussen]

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Dear all,

We would like to draw your attention to a forthcoming publication 
opportunity: a special issue of /Discourse: Studies in the Cultural 
Politics of Education/. A summary is below.

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*The cultural politics of queer theory in educational research*

*Special Issue Overview*

In its statement of aims, /Discourse/ states that the journal seeks "to 
contribute to contemporary debates on the new social, cultural and 
political configurations that now mark education as a highly contested 
but important cultural site".This journal is thus an apt location for a 
special issue on the cultural politics surrounding the use of a highly 
contested body of knowledge - queer theory in educational research.

This special issuedenotes our intention to disrupt cycles of thinking 
about the place of queer theory in education research. We aim to 
encourage dialogue about (a) the objects and subjects of queer research 
(b) forms of politics incited by the use of queer theory in education, 
and (c) the methodological approaches used by scholars when queer(y)ing.

The editors invite contributions from those who find queer theory 
problematic, and/or past its use by date, as well as by those who 
continue to see a productive place for queer research in education, 
however that may be defined. We seek contributions about the sorts of 
boundaries that are placed around queer research in education by 
researchers themselves, and by peers, ethics committees, funding bodies 
and university and government bureaucracies.

We also invite papers that consider how researchers identified with 
education and queer theory experience and navigate this space in the 
academy, and, papers on how the current academic climate shapes queer 
research in education. What are the contemporary cultural politics of 
doing queer theoretical work in different education spaces and places? 
Is queer theory an important cultural site in education research? Or, is 
queer theory in education irretrievablyoccidentalist and racist? In 
short, we welcome explorations that might disrupt what we think we 
already know about the 'place' of queer theory in education.


- Two page proposals are to be sent by 15^st Feb 2013

- Articles to be sent by 30^th August 2013

- Publication date May 2014.

Please attach an indicative list of references, plus a 200 word 
biography to your proposal. *All papers will be submitted to blind 
peer-review. *

Editors: Mary Lou Rasmussen and Christina Gowlett

Contact Details

Marylou.Rasmussen at monash.edu <mailto:Marylou.Rasmussen at monash.edu>


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