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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;">Dear all,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;">We would
like to draw your attention to a forthcoming
publication opportunity: a special issue of <i style="">Discourse:
Studies
in the Cultural Politics of Education</i>. A summary is
below.</span></p>
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justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; text-align:
justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">The cultural politics of queer theory in
educational
research</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; text-align:
justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">Special Issue Overview</span></b><span
style="font-family: Times;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; text-align:
justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-GB">In its statement of aims, <i
style="">Discourse</i>
states that </span><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US">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”.</span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">
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. </span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></p>
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justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New
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Times;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; text-align:
justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">This
special issue</span><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-GB"> denotes 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. </span><span
style="font-family: Times;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; text-align:
justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-family:
Times;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; text-align:
justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-GB">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. </span><span style="font-family:
Times;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; text-align:
justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-family:
Times;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; text-align:
justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-GB">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
irretrievably</span><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US"> occidentalist and racist? </span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">In
short,
we welcome explorations that might disrupt what we think we
already know
about the ‘place’ of queer theory in education.</span><span
style="font-family: Times;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;"><br>
- Two page proposals are to be sent by 15<sup>st</sup> Feb
2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;">- Articles
to be sent by 30<sup>th</sup> August 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;">-
Publication date May 2014.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-US">Please
attach an indicative list of references, plus a 200 word
biography to your
proposal. </span></span><b style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">All papers
will be submitted to blind peer-review.
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;">Editors:
Mary Lou Rasmussen and Christina Gowlett</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;">Contact
Details</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;"><a
href="mailto:Marylou.Rasmussen@monash.edu">Marylou.Rasmussen@monash.edu</a></span></p>
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