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British Library Cataloguing in Publication DataQueer methods and methodologies : intersecting queer theories and social science research. Language (2004), and the author of a number journal publications. at irvine, he is a Core Faculty member for the Culture and theory Ph.d. program, as well as a Program Faculty member for the arts, Computation, and eng… Show more
“…When considering the contribution of queer theory to the research practice and methodological reflection in social sciences, we can say that it concerned more the ontology and epistemology of knowledge rather than methods and methodologies themselves. Indeed as stated by Browne and Nash (, p. 14): looking at the wide range of queer scholarship that was developed since the early 1990s, it is clear that ‘queer’ approaches are deeply engaged in questioning the existence and ‘knowability’ of the social, particularly in various social normative claims […] If sexual and gender studies (and broader social theorising) create social fields, it follows that destabilising such theorising, including through queer theorising, and creating new social methods can create transformative politics through research.…”
Section: Is There Anything Like a ‘Queer’ Methodology Or Method? Condmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research . In the introduction to the collection, the editors distinguish between ‘methodologies’, as ‘the logic that links the project's ontological and epistemological approaches to the selection and deployment of methods’, and ‘methods’, as ‘what is ‘done’, that is, the techniques of collecting data’ (Browne & Nash , pp. 10–11).…”
Section: Is There Anything Like a ‘Queer’ Methodology Or Method? Condmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However the essays composing the collection reveal the narrow boundaries of this distinction, showing how a queer methodology and a queer method open questions rather than giving answers. This undefined character is seen to originate from the fluid, unstable and multiple character of queer, ‘a term that can and should be redeployed, fucked with and used in resistant and transgressive ways, even if those ways are resisting what could, and some would argue already has, become a “queer orthodoxy”’ (Browne & Nash , p. 9). Indeed several voices had already denounced the increasingly institutionalised and normative tendencies within queer studies (Halberstam ; Halperin ; Wilcox ; Browne et al .…”
Section: Is There Anything Like a ‘Queer’ Methodology Or Method? Condmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Firmly convinced that ‘queering’ methodologies and methods is not an ontological position pre‐assumed when conducting research with queer‐identified subjects, we play with the tensions between queer as an adjective aimed at fixing and defining and as a verb signalling a continuous politics of becoming. Although in line with the ‘anti‐normative’ character of queer theory that ‘seeks to subvert, challenge and critique a host of taken for granted ‘stabilities’ in our social lives’ (Browne & Nash , p. 7), these tensions reveal the contradictory position of our writing effort: we are aware of the impossibility to fully account and represent emotional, affective and embodied personal trajectories, but we are still producing a form of knowledge (an academic paper) aimed at representing and somehow fixing those forms of experience.…”
Section: Introduction: Imagery and Desire As (Queer/creative) Migratimentioning
In this paper we discuss the main methodological issues raised by a research project we carried out between 2012 and 2013 about Italian queer 'creative' migration in Berlin, focusing on the tensions among mobility/movement, desire, bodies, affects and fieldwork. Following an increasing international debate on the topic, the contribution discusses the (im)possibility to develop a queer method or methodology. We stress how 'queering' methodologies and methods is not an ontological position pre-assumed when conducting research with queer-identified subjects, but is a process of dismantling taken-for-granted, stable, monolithic categories and identities. In order to do so, the paper discusses positionalities, situated knowledge and the different interactions --with both human and non-human actors --shaping the field. Through analysing body performances in the terms introduced by Taylor, 'a politics of becoming' emerges as a way to consider the relation between sexualities and spaces. The 'objects' of our research, that is, queer migrants, can thus be reframed following Braidotti's conceptualisation of the 'nomadic subject' and Deleuze and Guattari's 'desiring machines'. Since they are shaped by affects, personal trajectories are exceptional and unique, composing new territorial materialities.
“…When considering the contribution of queer theory to the research practice and methodological reflection in social sciences, we can say that it concerned more the ontology and epistemology of knowledge rather than methods and methodologies themselves. Indeed as stated by Browne and Nash (, p. 14): looking at the wide range of queer scholarship that was developed since the early 1990s, it is clear that ‘queer’ approaches are deeply engaged in questioning the existence and ‘knowability’ of the social, particularly in various social normative claims […] If sexual and gender studies (and broader social theorising) create social fields, it follows that destabilising such theorising, including through queer theorising, and creating new social methods can create transformative politics through research.…”
Section: Is There Anything Like a ‘Queer’ Methodology Or Method? Condmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research . In the introduction to the collection, the editors distinguish between ‘methodologies’, as ‘the logic that links the project's ontological and epistemological approaches to the selection and deployment of methods’, and ‘methods’, as ‘what is ‘done’, that is, the techniques of collecting data’ (Browne & Nash , pp. 10–11).…”
Section: Is There Anything Like a ‘Queer’ Methodology Or Method? Condmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However the essays composing the collection reveal the narrow boundaries of this distinction, showing how a queer methodology and a queer method open questions rather than giving answers. This undefined character is seen to originate from the fluid, unstable and multiple character of queer, ‘a term that can and should be redeployed, fucked with and used in resistant and transgressive ways, even if those ways are resisting what could, and some would argue already has, become a “queer orthodoxy”’ (Browne & Nash , p. 9). Indeed several voices had already denounced the increasingly institutionalised and normative tendencies within queer studies (Halberstam ; Halperin ; Wilcox ; Browne et al .…”
Section: Is There Anything Like a ‘Queer’ Methodology Or Method? Condmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Firmly convinced that ‘queering’ methodologies and methods is not an ontological position pre‐assumed when conducting research with queer‐identified subjects, we play with the tensions between queer as an adjective aimed at fixing and defining and as a verb signalling a continuous politics of becoming. Although in line with the ‘anti‐normative’ character of queer theory that ‘seeks to subvert, challenge and critique a host of taken for granted ‘stabilities’ in our social lives’ (Browne & Nash , p. 7), these tensions reveal the contradictory position of our writing effort: we are aware of the impossibility to fully account and represent emotional, affective and embodied personal trajectories, but we are still producing a form of knowledge (an academic paper) aimed at representing and somehow fixing those forms of experience.…”
Section: Introduction: Imagery and Desire As (Queer/creative) Migratimentioning
In this paper we discuss the main methodological issues raised by a research project we carried out between 2012 and 2013 about Italian queer 'creative' migration in Berlin, focusing on the tensions among mobility/movement, desire, bodies, affects and fieldwork. Following an increasing international debate on the topic, the contribution discusses the (im)possibility to develop a queer method or methodology. We stress how 'queering' methodologies and methods is not an ontological position pre-assumed when conducting research with queer-identified subjects, but is a process of dismantling taken-for-granted, stable, monolithic categories and identities. In order to do so, the paper discusses positionalities, situated knowledge and the different interactions --with both human and non-human actors --shaping the field. Through analysing body performances in the terms introduced by Taylor, 'a politics of becoming' emerges as a way to consider the relation between sexualities and spaces. The 'objects' of our research, that is, queer migrants, can thus be reframed following Braidotti's conceptualisation of the 'nomadic subject' and Deleuze and Guattari's 'desiring machines'. Since they are shaped by affects, personal trajectories are exceptional and unique, composing new territorial materialities.
“…Lors de l'arrivée sur le terrain, plonger dans les milieux queer fut l'occasion d'un approfondissement de ces éléments (Rooke, 2010 ; Di Feliciantonio et al, 2017), et surtout l'occasion pour moi de comprendre les liens entre les milieux queer et les luttes contre les processus de gentrification (McElroy and Maharawal, 2018). Or, au premier rang de cette socialisation militante, on trouve une forte préoccupation pour la déconstruction des formes intersectionnelles de domination (Dorlin, 2009), menée par des militant.es qui ont, bien souvent, un capital scolaire important, et qui ont transformé la pratique de l'enquête tout en étant elleux-mêmes les enquêté.es (Prieur, 2015 ;Browne, and Nash, 2010 Si cette violence symbolique ne disparaît jamais vraiment, la socialisation parmi ces collectifs porteños amène à d'autres transformations dans les pratiques de recherche. Ce qu'entraine cette violence symbolique est un changement de méthode après quelques semaines de travail, pour préférer, à la participation observante (Makaremi, 2008) mise en place à San Francisco, des phases d'observation couplées à des entretiens avec les acteurs clés des processus observés.…”
Dominant group members often are not aware of the privileges they benefit from due to their dominant group membership. Yet individuals are members of multiple groups and may simultaneously occupy multiple categories of dominance and marginality, raising the question of how different group memberships work in concert to facilitate or inhibit awareness of multiple forms of privilege. Examining awareness of privilege is important as awareness may be linked to action to dismantle systems of privilege that maintain oppression and inequality. Grounded in intersectional scholarship, in this study we examined how occupying intersecting categories of race/ethnicity, gender, and religion corresponded to an awareness of White, male, and Christian privilege. In a sample of 2321 Midwestern college students, we demonstrated that students from marginalized groups broadly reported greater awareness of all forms of privilege than students from dominant groups, and the difference between marginalized and dominant groups was most pronounced when the specific group category (e.g., gender) aligned with the type of privilege (e.g., male privilege). We also tested interactions among race/ethnicity, gender, and religion, only finding an interaction between race/ethnicity and religion for awareness of White and male privilege. These findings helped to clarify that multiple group memberships tended to contribute to awareness as multiple main effects rather than as multiplicative. Finally, we examined mean differences among the eight intersected groups to explore similarities and differences among groups in awareness of all types of privilege. Taken together, these findings quantitatively demonstrate the ways in which group memberships work together to contribute to awareness of multiple forms of privilege. We discuss study limitations and implications for community psychology research and practice.
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