Youdell, Deborah (2010) Queer Outings?: uncomfortable stories about the subjects of post-structural school ethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 23 (1). pp. 87-100. ISSN 13665898
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Abstract
In this paper I consider the abiding value as well as the limits of Queer; navigating the contradictions of a politics and ethnographic practice based on a refutation of an abiding subject; resisting subjectivation and needing recognition; and ‘coming-out’ in school ethnography framed by Queer theory. The paper moves from the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, borrowing Pillow’s (2003) notion of uncomfortable reflexivity and grafting the notion of the uncanny onto post-structurally informed ethnography via the work of Britzman (1998) and Delany’s (1988 & 2004). In bringing these ideas together the paper is an exercise in the discomfort provoked by both telling uncertain stories of the sort that are usually left untold about school ethnography and looking for glimpses of the uncanny in and through these. The paper suggests that attempts to engage what ‘escapes’ from or ‘falls away’ in the telling of uncomfortable stories helps us to engage what is unspeakable in the normative framing of the school and adultstudent relations within them and is a useful reminder of the impossibility of knowing completely or with certainty. This, I suggest, offers useful insights to ethnography and ethnographic writing and reading that we might characterise as ‘After Queer’.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Youdell, Deborah (2010) Queer Outings?: uncomfortable stories about the subjects of post-structural school ethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 23 (1). pp. 87-100. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518390903447168 |
| Subjects: | Departments > Education Foundations and Policy Studies |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (2) |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2010 09:44 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:28 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/2074 |
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