Queering Paradigms VI
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This edited volume brings together perspectives on embodied queerness within the complicated parameters of hegemonic normativities, biopolitics and social-religious governmentalities. Queering Paradigms VI offers queer interventions, explores value-production in socio-corporeal normative frameworks, and exemplifies and highlights the complexity of queering in the global-local continuum. Queer maintains its revolutionary subversive functionality as an impulse and catalyst for cultural shifts challenging status quos, advancing cultural philosophy and activism/artivism and subverting harmful discourses at work among communities of practice and academic disciplines. The authors of this volume demonstrate the discoursive power of value-production and show pathways of global-local queer resistance, virtuosity and failure in the fields of philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, art, criminology, health, social media, history, religion and politics.
The volume features a particular South Asia focus and a balanced mix of early career researchers and established scholars, which reflects Queering Paradigms' ethos for fostering a genial academic community of practice and to proffer intergenerational support and voice.
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Bee Scherer is Professor of Religious Studies and Gender Studies and Director of the Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice (INCISE) at Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kingdom (www.canterbury.ac.uk/INCISE). An expert in Buddhism and Queer Theory, Professor Scherer has authored more than a dozen monographs and edited volumes in German, Dutch and English. Professor Scherer is the founder of Queering Paradigms and the editor of Peter Lang's Queering Paradigms book series.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Queer Interventions, Ethics, and Glocalities
- Part I: Queer Interventions
- 1 The Queer Optimism of a Remuant Pedagogy
- 2 Queer(ing) Zizek
- 3 Queering Identities in Psychology: Blind Alleys and Avenues
- 4 Transiting Decolonization, Gender, and Disease through/in/with Performance as Research
- Part II: Troubling (Glocal) Ethics
- 5 The Ethics of Queer/ing Criminology: The Case of the 'Prison of Love'
- 6 Reproductive Ethics: An Example of an Allied Dis/Ability-Queer-Feminist Justice
- 7 Representing Queer Women: Nakedness and Sexuality in the Visual Presentation of the Colonized Body of the Female Other
- 8 Lynchpin for Value Negotiation: Lesbians, Gays and Transgender between Russia and 'the West'
- Part III: Queer Glocalities in South Asia
- 9 Queering Virtual Intimacies in Contemporary India
- 10 Unsettling the 'Hijra' Identity: A Study of the Hijras of Siliguri
- 11 Changing Sex in Pali Buddhist Monastic Literature
- 12 Variant Dharma: Buddhist Queers, Queering Buddhisms
- Afterword: Learning from Queer/Variable Embodiment
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
