Queering Higher Education: Troubling Norms in the Global Knowledge Economy (Foundations and Futures of Education)

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This interdisciplinary and international book subjects key areas of inclusion in the global knowledge economy to critical scrutiny from queer perspectivism. Drawing on empirical data from diverse international contexts including Chile, Finland, Japan, Malaysia, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa, and the UK, this book examines sites of affective antagonisms, fragility, and friction, and explores whether queer theory can provide alternative readings of contemporary pathways, pedagogical and research cultures, political economies, and policy priorities with higher education. Main themes covered include: The Global Knowledge Economy and Epistemic InjusticeDecolonisationInternationalisationFeminist LeadershipAffirmative ActionQueering the Political Economy of NeoliberalismDigitalisation of academic work Both comparative and illustrative, this key text provides a comparative analysis that recognises epistemic diversity, multiplicity of experiences, and, importantly, the effect of comparative reason in constructing stratified universities’ world fields and excluded and marginal academic experiences. It also takes into account the colonial historical entanglements in the ongoing formation and disavowal of the university and academic labour. Queering Higher Education: Troubling Norms in the Global Knowledge Economy is ideal reading for all those interested in queer theory and how it relates to higher education. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Table of Contents Introduction Evacuating Energy From Higher Education Policy Aiming High Our Relationship: Sparking Each Other Everything Free, Everything Gay! Alphabetti Spaghetti: Naming Queer While the Initialism Just Keeps Growing Conceptual and Methodological Approaches Digging Deep References 1 Rainbow Laces and Safe Spaces: Applying Queer Theory to the Academy What’s Queer Theory? Queering the Academy Feminist Friends Paradoxical Binaries and the Politics of Authenticity: Gender Critical and Trans* Rights Activists and Theorists Decolonising Queer Theory Coming Out as Working Class The Embarrassed Etcs Queering Queer Theory References 2 COVID-19 - Pandemic Productivity, Epidemic/Epistemic Inclusion, and Staying With the Mess Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste! Exploiting the Materiality of the Virus We’re All in This Together? The Politics of Vulnerability Home, Sweet Home? Which Women? What the Pandemic Materialised If the Virus Doesn’t Finish You Off, Crisis Management Will Conclusion References 3 Queering the Digital Knowledge Economy: Disruption, Personalisation, and Privatisation Introduction Queer Imaginaries of the Digital Queering Higher Education Knowledge The Promise of Happiness: The Digital Economy as Disruptor of Higher Education Compounding the Public/Private Good Conclusion References 4 Queering Internationalisation: Contesting Policy and Knowledge Imaginaries From Migrants’ Embodied Experiences Queer Readings of Internationalisation in a Minor Key Migrant Academics and Internationalisation Heteronormal Internationalisation: Family as a Nuclear Force Violence Against Bodies, Intimacy, and Voice Heteronormal Internationalisation in Dynamic Intersection With Racist Configurations The Polyvalence of Internationalisation From Embodied Rationalities of Mobilities of Migrant Academics Conclusion References 5 Troubling Affirmative Action’s Global Normalisation in Higher Education Queering the Abjection/Abundance Binary Affirmative Action as a Hegemonic Liberal Dispositif The Global Epistemic Landscape of Affirmative Action in Higher Education Meritocracy and Failure: The Binary of Winners and Losers in Neoliberalism Queering Epistemic Intimidations: Allowing Affect Into Affirmative Action The Enactment of Global Meritocratic Exceptionality in the Affirmative Action Policy in Chile Working-Class Pleasures Dismissed in Higher Education The Visceral Economy of Merit Class, Patriarchy, Debt, and Expulsion in the Making of the Affirmative Action Assemblage Conclusion References 6 Queering Women in Higher Education Leadership Queering Absences: What We Are Not Doing? The Story So Far: Queering Studies on Gender and Leadership Queering Leadership: The Lavender Ceiling? Queering the Affective Economy of Leadership Methodology: Intellectuals Interrupted Queering Feminist Leadership in the Promised Land of Gender Equality Age Matters: (Un)Queer Temporalities and Chrononormativity Queering South Asia: Third Sex in the ‘Third’ World Conclusion References Conclusion: You Need to Unmute Yourself! Affective Capitalism Reading in a Minor Key Messing Up Queering Higher Education References Index