Imagining queer methods / edited by Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ghaziani, Amin, editor.

Brim, Matt, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory--United States--Methodology.

Queer theory.

Gay and lesbian studies--United States--Methodology.

Gay and lesbian studies.

Methodology.

United States.

Physical Description:

vi, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Imagining Queer Methods' showcases the methodological renaissance unfolding in queer scholarship. This volume brings together emerging and esteemed researchers from all corners of the academy who are defining new directions for the field. From critical race studies, history, journalism, lesbian feminist studies, literature, media studies, and performance studies to anthropology, education, psychology, sociology, and urban planning, this impressive interdisciplinary collection covers topics such as humanistic approaches to reading, theorizing, and interpreting, as well as scientific appeals to measurement, modeling, sampling, and statistics. By bringing together these diverse voices into an unprecedented single volume, Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim inspire us with innovative ways of thinking about methods and methodologies in queer studies. -- Jacket.

Contents:

Introductions. Methods/Mess

Queer Methods: Four Provocations for an Emerging Field / Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim

“How the Other Half Thinks”: An Introduction to the Volume / Heather Love

Subjecting/Objecting

Put a Little Honey in My Sweet Tea: Oral History as Quare Performance / E. Patrick Johnson

The Racialized Erotics of Participatory Research: A Queer Feminist Understanding / Jessica Fields

Queer Survey Research and the Ontological Dimensionsof Heterosexism / Patrick R. Grzanka

Methodological Problems and Possibilities in Gayborhood Studies / Amin Ghaziani

Narrating/Measuring

To Count or Not to Count: Queering Measurement and the Transgender Community / Petra L. Doan

Counternarratives: A Black Queer Reader / Matt Brim

Measurement, Interrupted: Queer Possibilities for Social Scientific Methods / Zandria F. Robinson and Marcus Anthony Hunter

Listening/Creating

The Intersection of Queer Theory and Empirical Methods: Visions for the Center for LGBTQ Studies and Queer Studies / David P. Rivera and Kevin L. Nadal

The Map Where We Meet and Other Queer-Quare Stories: An Essay-as-Performance Set to a Double-Bass Score / Rommi Smith, with music composition by Jenni Molloy

Discursive Hustling and Queer of Color Interviewing / Steven W. Thrasher

Like Inciting a Riot: Queering Open Education with EqualityArchive.com / Shelly Eversley and Laurie Hurson

Historicizing/Resisting

Dyke Methods: A Meditation on Queer Studies and the Gay Men Who Hate It / Jane Ward

Haunted by the 1990s: Queer Theory's Affective Histories / Kadji Amin

Making Lesbian History Possible: A Proposal / Sarah Schulman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479821020

1479821020

9781479829484

147982948X

OCLC:

1051777997