Queer Sharing in the Marketized University (Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities)

This collection contributes to an understanding of queer theory as a "queer share," addressing the urgent need to redistribute resources in a university world characterized by stark material disparities and embedded gendered, racial, national, and class inequities.

From across a range of precarious and relatively secure positions, authors consider the changing politics of queer theory and the shifting practices of queers who, in moving from the margins toward the academic mainstream, differently negotiate resources, recognition, and returns. Contributors engage queer redistributions in all tiers of the class-stratified academy and across the UK, the US, Australia, Armenia, Canada, and Spain. They both indict academic hierarchy as a form of colonial knowledge-making and explore class contradictions via first-generation epistemologies, feminist care work in the pandemic, Black working-class visibility, non-peer institutional collaborations, and student labor.

The volume reflects a commitment to interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical approaches and methodologies across anthropology, Black studies, cultural studies, education, feminist and women’s studies, geography, Latinx studies, performance studies, postcolonial studies, public health, transgender studies, sociology, student affairs, and queer studies. This book is for readers seeking to better understand the broad class-based knowledge project that has become a defining feature of the field of queer studies.

Churnjeet Mahn is Professor of English at the University of Strathclyde and a fellow of the Young Academy of Scotland (Royal Society of Edinburgh). Her publications include Journeys in the palimpsest: British women’s Travel in Greece 1840–1914 (2012) and the edited collection Creativity and Resistance in a Hostile World (2020).

Matt Brim is Professor of Queer Studies at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. His books include Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (2020), James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination (2014), and the coedited Imagining Queer Methods (2019).

Yvette Taylor is Professor of Education, University of Strathclyde, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Books include Working-class Lesbian Life (2007), Making Space for Queer Identifying Religious Youth (2015), and the co-authored Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education: Interrupting Career Categories (2020).