A Queer Mother for the Nation Redux

Fiol-Matta, Licia

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“…‘Queer’ as an identification term is often used as a way to have an identity that eschews stable identities, yet often still gets reiterated as a form of stable subjectification even within that set of goals. This work highlights important insights in a line of queer theory in the last decades that began with Licia ‘Fiol-Matta’s Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral (2002), wherein theorists have troubled the assumption that queer identities are somehow inherently radical. As we see in this article, the queer polyamorous identities actually do quite a bit of normative work, including that of attempting to stabilize and validate the happy object of a clear subject positioning.…”

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confidence: 93%

Tensions of subjectivity: The instability of queer polyamorous identity and community

Benson

2016

Sexualities

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The experiences of polyamorous queer people highlights and extends existing questions around subjectivity and identity. This article examines a case study of three polyamorous and queer-identified women and their experiences and brings them into conversation with existing queer feminist scholarship theorizing subjectivity and happiness. In this analysis, I highlight the points of commonality and disjuncture in these women's experiences and identities. By doing this, I am attentive to the available subject-positions for polyamorous people, their desires for sameness or commonality, and the ways that these desires are often disappointed.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Tensions of subjectivity: The instability of queer polyamorous identity and community

Benson

2016

Sexualities

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“…Here, historians of education can contribute by producing exemplary biographies of those who have beaten a path (e.g. Fiol-Matta, 2002;Whitehead, 2003).…”

Section: Learning and Changementioning

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Beyond zero-sum thinking in teacher education: cognitive science, educational neuroscience, and the history of education

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2023

HER

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PurposeI take as a starting point the disparaging comments about the place of history and philosophy of education in initial teacher education (ITE) made by the chair of the Teacher Education Expert Panel established by the Australian Government in 2023, which I take to be the most recent attempt at resurrecting the tired debate over “the art versus science of teaching”. I draw on an example from my own ITE classroom to tease possibilities for how historical research and research in the sciences of learning can be in dialogue and collaborate to deepen educational scholarship.Design/methodology/approachThe purpose of this essay is to reflect on the scholarly discussions and debates in the sciences of learning that historical researchers of education have largely been absent or excluded from. I argue that historical researchers have an important role to play as “critical friends” to the burgeoning fields of cognitive science and educational neuroscience.FindingsFrom my cursory and singular account, I highlight two key areas of education where historical research and the sciences of learning can be fruitfully in dialogue and collaboration: Firstly, on the cultural dimension that prefigures learners' approach to learning; and secondly, on the factors that enable or disable effective learning.Originality/valueThis essay sets an agenda for historical researchers in education to exercise “critical friendship” with the cognitive and brain sciences of learning, specifically by adding temporal considerations to the way biology, psychology, and sociality interact to produce different educational outcomes. This will be of “practical” service to ITE – and to students in schools.

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“…Mistral always spoke of “our race” ( nuestra raza ) and stood up for indigenous rights. Her sexual life was largely closeted, and she portrayed a heterosexual profile in her public profile, or what Fiol-Matta (2002, p. 4) calls a “silent sexuality”, married to the national cause of “chileanness” (Fiol-Matta, 2002, p. 6).…”

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Artists as cultural icons: the icon myth transfer effect as a heuristic for cultural branding

Scarpaci¹,

Coupey

Reed

2018

JPBM

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Purpose Communicating the national values of artists and the role of product benefits as symbols of national values, infuse iconic national brands. This paper aims to validate a conceptual framework that offers empirical insights for cultural identity that drives brand management. Design/methodology/approach Case studies and cross-cultural focus group research establish the present study’s conceptual framework for cultural branding. Findings Brand awareness of a perfume named after a Cuban dancer and a spirit named for a Chilean poet, reflect authentic emblems of national identity. Informants’ behavior confirms the study’s model of icon myth transfer effect as a heuristic for cultural branding with clear, detailed and unprompted references to the myths and brands behind these heroines. Research limitations/implications The study’s ethnography shows how artists reflect myth and folklore in iconic brands. Future research should assess whether the icon myth transfer effect as a heuristic for cultural branding occurs with cultural icons beyond the arts and transcends national boundaries. Practical implications The study challenges conventional branding, where the brand is the myth, and the myth reflects the myth market. The authors show how the myth connects to a national identity yet exists independently of the brand. The branding strategy ties the brand to the existing myth, an alternative route for cultural branding mediated by the icon myth transfer effect. Social implications These two Latin American brands provide a much-needed connection among the branding literatures and images surrounding gender and nationalism in lesser-known markets. Originality/value Most research explores iconic myths, brands and folklore in one country. This study extends cultural branding through social history and by testing a conceptual model that establishes how myths embody nation-specific values. Iconic myths are a heuristic for understanding and describing brands, revealing an unexamined path for cultural branding.

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A Queer Mother for the Nation Redux

Cited by 37 publications

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Tensions of subjectivity: The instability of queer polyamorous identity and community

Tensions of subjectivity: The instability of queer polyamorous identity and community

Beyond zero-sum thinking in teacher education: cognitive science, educational neuroscience, and the history of education

Artists as cultural icons: the icon myth transfer effect as a heuristic for cultural branding

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