Engaged queer scholarship: probing a new paradigm of knowledge creation
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Date
2014
Authors
Mulé, Nick
Lowik, A.J.
Teixeira, Rob
Hudler, Richard
Hader, Davina
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Publisher
CISP Press
Abstract
This article features a reflexive iteration of engaged scholarship regarding the Queer Liberation Theory Project, a community-based research study with the social justice group Queer Ontario, which involves academics, activists, and artists, a number of whom are cross affiliated. We explore the tensions and challenges involved in developing and creating knowledge via an engaged scholarship process that must respect the historical philosophical perspectives of a social movement as well as today’s academic theories. This article addresses the challenges of developing new knowledge (a theory) that counters a powerful, neoliberal, mainstream segment of today’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements, with implications for society at large. The layered issues associated with engaged scholarship are disentangled, including vulnerability to neoliberalism, navigating competing perspectives, and how academics/activists/artists both understand and engage in knowledge creation.
Description
Open access. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada license (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 CA) applies
Keywords
Community-based participatory research , Engaged scholarship , Neoliberalism , Queer liberation theory , Queer theory , Theory development
Citation
Mulé, N. J., Lowik, A., Teixeira, R., Hudler, R., & Hader, D. (2014). Engaged queer scholarship: Probing a new paradigm of knowledge creation. Scholarly and Research Communications, 5(3), Article 0301160. https://doi.org/10.22230/src.2014v5n3a160