Governing from the margins: Queering the state of local government?¹

Cooper, Davina; Monro, Surya

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“…Trans community spaces, and particularly those of support and self-help groups, fill gaps in care left by professional organisations (Hines 2007a(Hines , 2007b and statutory services (Cooper and Monro 2003). In this way, community groups were identified by many research participants as important sources of contact and friendship, as well as sites of support and advice.…”

Section: Queer In the Community?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Queerly situated? Exploring negotiations of trans queer subjectivities at work and within community spaces in the UK

Hines

2010

Gender, Place & Culture

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While traditional perspectives on transgender from some strands of feminism and within medical/psychoanalytical discourse have argued that transgender people conform to and reproduce gender stereotypes, queer theory has celebrated transgender as a site that highlights the social and cultural construction of 'sex' and 'gender' and, moreover, as a symbol of transgressive gender possibility. Both of these readings ignore the complexities of lived trans experiences and identifications. By evaluating a queer reading of trans through recent empirical research into transgender identities, I suggest that while trans identifications certainly queer binary models of 'sex' and 'gender', such transgressions are materially, culturally, socially and spatially contingent. The article draws on empirical research to explore the ways in which access to queer subjectivities is constrained by, and negotiated alongside, the locales of the workplace and community spaces.

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Section: Queer In the Community?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Queerly situated? Exploring negotiations of trans queer subjectivities at work and within community spaces in the UK

Hines

2010

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…In local authorities pursuing second generation, same-sex equality work, officers and community activists moved into the front-seat, in contrast to the 1980s when local gay politicians fronted developments. Relations with local residents also changed, or, at least appeared to have changed from the language and frameworks now deployed by local councils, as pastoral politics, on the one hand, and customer orientation, on the other, displaced service user models (see also Cooper & Monro, 2003) e a shift that intersected a further discursive move from equal opportunities to inclusion and diversity. Organisationally, work became both mainstreamed and peripheralised.8 Externally located multi-agency forums involving lesbian and gay community groups and state agency representatives replaced standing lesbian and gay committees.…”

Section: Active Citizenship and Domain Wallsmentioning

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“…Although the authorities were primarily selected to achieve a balance between second generation newcomers and first generation pioneers (see Cooper & Monro, 2003), they were also selected with a view to achieving geographic coverage, jurisdictional diversity, and political representativeness.5…”

Section: Active Citizenship and Domain Wallsmentioning

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Active citizenship and the governmentality of local lesbian and gay politics

Cooper

2006

Political Geography

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Abstract:This paper explores the relationship between new forms of speakability and continuing unthinkability in the context of British local government lesbian and gay work, particularly post-1997. The paper argues new municipal speech acts ushered in progressive modes of sexual citizenship; at the same time, local government's refusal to think hard, deeply or critically, limited the modes of active citizenship made possible. The paper addresses the easing out of active citizenship through an analysis of local government's self-care and its intensification of firewalls e firewalls which restricted the possibility of certain non-state forces guiding from 'a distance'.

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“…Quite simply, sexuality and social policy, respectively, have come to be understood as being concerned with 'private relations and public policy' (Carabine 1996a, p. 36). However, a number of commentators (Cooper 1993, Carabine 1996a, 1996b, Cooper and Monro 2003 have argued that it is essential to critically consider policy in light of constructions of sexuality and sexual politics because it represents 'a site where various issues and 'truths' about sexuality are contested, challenged, reformed and transformed' (Carabine 1996a, p. 55). This need for critical examination of social policy is all the more pressing in the context of youth policy where 'truths' about sexuality coalesce with 'truths' about 'childhood' and 'youth'.…”

Section: Tensions Contradictions and Convergence Between Policy And mentioning

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Absent but present: a critical analysis of the representation of sexuality in recent youth policy in the UK

Moore

Prescott

2012

Journal of Youth Studies

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Absent but present: a critical analysis of the representation of sexuality in recent youth policy in the UK, Journal of Youth Studies, 16:2, 191-205, Current youth policy in England and Wales utilises 'transition' as the major framework for understanding young people's movement from 'youth' to 'adulthood'. Underpinning this are developmental assumptions about who young people are and who they 'should' become, especially with regard to sexuality. 'Childhood' and 'youth' are conceptualised as asexual or pre-sexual categories and those young people who are deemed to have sexual knowledge are problematised. Transitions to adulthood are inescapably heteronormative: the movement to adulthood is not simply about becoming an adult, but about becoming a man or a woman conforming to compulsory heterosexuality. Current youth policy says little about young people's sexuality and when it does it frequently conflates sexual behaviour with sexual health. Drawing on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and, in particular, his concepts of field, habitus and symbolic violence, it will be argued that despite the rhetoric of participation, engagement and inclusion in current youth policy it continues to perpetuate and naturalise the symbolic order between 'adults' and young people and continues to position youth sexuality as potentially dangerous.

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Governing from the margins: Queering the state of local government?¹

Cited by 48 publications

References 6 publications

Queerly situated? Exploring negotiations of trans queer subjectivities at work and within community spaces in the UK

Queerly situated? Exploring negotiations of trans queer subjectivities at work and within community spaces in the UK

Active citizenship and the governmentality of local lesbian and gay politics

Absent but present: a critical analysis of the representation of sexuality in recent youth policy in the UK

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