How childish! Queering ‘youth’ and some other of the mutual challenges of queer and education research
Author
Summary, in English
Whithin queer research, children and young people have for a long time played a minor part (Driver, 2008; Epstein, O’Flynn, & Telford, 2009; Halberstam, 2008b; Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1991). With this paper, I will engage the (no) future debate with queer youth and education research, by problematizing the discrepancy between responsibility and solidarity and the task to question our own assumptions of a queer political project (Halberstam, 2008a). How is it possible to balance the obvious need for remedial intervention and the equally important need to question stabilizing notions of ‘children’ and ‘youth’?
Department/s
Publishing year
2010
Language
English
Document type
Conference paper
Topic
- Gender Studies
Keywords
- 'the child'
- queer
- education
- no future-debate
- youth
Conference name
Queer Again? Power, Politics and Ethics International Conference of the Department of English and American Studies and the Research Training Group “Gender as a Category of Knowledge”
Conference date
2010-09-23 - 2010-09-25
Status
Unpublished