What’s the place of queer theory in studies of gender, sexuality, and education on the periphery?

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    Abstract

    This article is an exploration of the problem of theorizing gender and sexuality of people who Raewyn Connell might describe as coming from the global periphery, but whose lives and futures are also enmeshed in the politics, policies, and pedagogies of the metropole. Elizabeth Povinelli is a Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University who lives and works in New York City. She also has an appointment as a Professorial Fellow at Charles Darwin University and has done extensive research on Indigenous people in the Belyuen in northern Australia. Raewyn Connell is an educational sociologist from Sydney who, according to her website, has tried to make social science relevant to social justice, becoming involved with campaigns, teachers and social-movement activists to bring research to bear on public policy and strategies of social change. I want to read Povinelli and Connell together because they have both sought to problematize the proper objects of research on gender and sexualities. Both have also been critical of identity politics related to gender and sexuality. Both researchers also interrogate gender and sexuality in relation to settler colonialism. Finally, both Connell and Povinelli attend to the ways in which intimate relations are governed by political and economic discourses related to neoliberalism (Connell and Povinelli) and late liberalism (Povinelli).
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)73-84
    Number of pages12
    JournalReview of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
    Volume38
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2016

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