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Author: Yvette Taylor (University of Strathclyde, UK) ,
Matt Brim ,
Churnjeet Mahn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781350273658
ISBN 10: 1350273651
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 04 May 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Before we normalize precarity and casualized labor in academia, as has occurred in many other, usually developing countries, we must resist and unite, support and align our solidarity with our queer communities in academia. This book reminds me of the importance of resilience and solidarity needed in order to stand against the structurally racist academic institutions, that are still not addressing the work of young and old queer academics seriously or intersectionally. As someone who has been reflecting deeply about these themes for the last quarter century, and writing about the dialectical traces that POCs and Queer Academics have endured throughout the history of American academic institutions, a book like this is refreshing and affirming, allowing us to see that the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s and 70s have bloomed in our younger queer academics. * Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Seattle University , USA *
Before we normalize precarity and casualized labor in academia, as has occurred in many other, usually developing countries, we must resist and unite, support and align our solidarity with our queer communities in academia. This book reminds me of the importance of resilience and solidarity needed in order to stand against the structurally racist academic institutions, that are still not addressing the work of young and old queer academics seriously or intersectionally. As someone who has been reflecting deeply about these themes for the last quarter century, and writing about the dialectical traces that POCs and Queer Academics have endured throughout the history of American academic institutions, a book like this is refreshing and affirming, allowing us to see that the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s and 70s have bloomed in our younger queer academics. * Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Seattle University , USA * This exciting collection is an important addition to both the literature on queer cultures/theory and on the precarious systems of higher education. Wide-ranging in focus, and including both evocative reflections and analytical suggestions for change, it will be a valuable addition to many bookshelves. * Professor Jo Littler, City, University of London *
Author Information
Yvette Taylor is Professor of Education, University of Strathclyde, UK, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Yvette has published four sole-authored books based on funded research: Working-class Lesbian Life (2007); Lesbian and Gay Parenting (2009); Fitting Into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities (2012) and Making Space for Queer Identifying Religious Youth (2015) and co-authored Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education: Interrupting Career Categories. Matt Brim is Professor of Queer Studies at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island and Graduate Cente, USA. His book Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (2020) reorients the field of queer studies away from exclusionary institutions of higher education and toward working-class colleges, students, theories, and pedagogies. Brim is the author of James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination (2014), as well as an open access online guide for teaching the HIV/AIDS activist documentary film United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012). Churnjeet Mahn is Reader in English at the University of Strathclyde, UK, and a fellow of the Young Academy of Scotland (Royal Society of Edinburgh). She recently completed a large Arts and Humanities Research Council project entitled Creative Interruptions and she is currently running a British Academy grant entitled Cross-Border Queers: The Story of South Asian Migrants to the UK.
