Queer Precarities in and out of Higher Education: Challenging Institutional Structures

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Yvette Taylor (University of Strathclyde, UK) Matt Brim

Queer Precarities in and out of Higher Education

Challenging Institutional Structures

Yvette Taylor (University of Strathclyde, UK), Matt Brim, Churnjeet Mahn

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
04 May 2023

Poverty & unemployment; Feminism & feminist theory; Gender studies, gender groups; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Political activism

Queer Precarity in Higher Education looks at queer scholars pushing against institutional structures, and the

queer knowledge that gets pushed out by universities. It provides insight into the work of, in and beyond academia as it is un-done in the contemporary (post)Covid moment, not least by queer academic-activists.

This radical un-doing represents cycles of queer precarity, pragmatism and participation both situating and questioning the ‘queer arrival’ of institutionalized programmes and presences (e.g. queer and gender studies degrees, prominent and public feminist academics). In this book, the contributors push back against contemporary educational precarity, mobilizing queer insight and insistence; and push back against confinement of the University, socially and spatially. The collection brings together academic-activist perspectives to extend understandings of experiences of marginalization and inequality in higher education. It also documents the diversity of tactics with which queers negotiate and resist the various, shifting and interconnected forms of precarity and privilege found on the edges of academia.

Contributors consider these issues from inside/outside academia and across career course, challenging the ‘queer arrival’ as emanating outward from the university to the community, from the academic to the activist, or from a state of privilege to a place of precarity.

Edited by: Yvette Taylor (University of Strathclyde UK), Matt Brim, Churnjeet Mahn
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350273658
ISBN 10: 1350273651
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 04 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Queer Precarities in and out of Higher Education: Challenging Institutional Structures

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 *