Queer Methods and Methodologies

Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research

Catherine J. Nash, Kath Browne, Kath Browne

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781317072669
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Queer Methods and Methodologies provides the first systematic consideration of the implications of a queer perspective in the pursuit of social scientific research. This volume grapples with key contemporary questions regarding the methodological implications for social science research undertaken from diverse queer perspectives, and explores the limitations and potentials of queer engagements with social science research techniques and methodologies. With contributors based in the UK, USA, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand and Australia, this truly international volume will appeal to anyone pursuing research at the intersections between social scientific research and queer perspectives, as well as those engaging with methodological considerations in social science research more broadly.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Queer Methods and Methodologies: An Introduction
• 1 Queer in the Field: On Emotions, Temporality and Performativity in Ethnography
• 2 Intimacy with Strangers/Intimacy with Self: Queer Experiences of Social Research
• 3 Brown, Queer and Gendered: Queering the Latina/o ‘Street-Scapes’ in Los Angeles.
• 4 The ‘Outness’ of Queer: Class and Sexual Intersections
• 5 Queer Methods and Queer Practices: Re-examining the Identities of Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Adults
• 6 Queer(ing) Communication in Research Relationships: A Conversation about Subjectivities, Methodologies and Ethics
• 7 The Trouble with Fieldwork: Queering Methodologies
• 8 Queer Conversations: Old-time Lesbians, Transmen and the Politics of Queer Research
• 9 Femme on Femme: Reflections on Collaborative Methods and Queer Femme-inist Ethnography
• 10 Queer(y)ing the Ethics of Research Methods: Toward a Politics of Intimacy in Researcher/Researched Relations
• 11 Method Matters: Ethnography and Materiality
• 12 Autoethnography is a Queer Method
• 13 Queer Techne: Two Theses on Methodology and Queer Studies
• 14 Queer Quantification or Queer(y)ing Quantification: Creating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Heterosexual Citizens through Governmental Social Research
• Bibliography
• Index