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datestamp: 2010-03-23 09:44:05
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creators_name: Youdell, Deborah
creators_id: d.youdell@ioe.ac.uk
title: Queer Outings?: uncomfortable stories about the subjects of post-structural school ethnography
ispublished: pub
divisions: B14
note: This is an invited paper in a Special Issue titled 'After Queer'. The SI is in press. The piece advances conceptual and methodological debates over 'queer' research and subjects by deploying new modes of data representation and bringing the notion of the uncanny to the reading of these. 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
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 arefutation of an abiding subject; resisting subjectivation and needing recognition;and ‘coming-out’ in school ethnography framed by Queer theory. The papermoves from the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, borrowing Pillow’s(2003) notion of uncomfortable reflexivity and grafting the notion of the uncannyonto post-structurally informed ethnography via the work of Britzman (1998) andDelany’s (1988 & 2004). In bringing these ideas together the paper is an exercisein the discomfort provoked by both telling uncertain stories of the sort that areusually left untold about school ethnography and looking for glimpses of theuncanny 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 toengage what is unspeakable in the normative framing of the school and adultstudentrelations within them and is a useful reminder of the impossibility ofknowing completely or with certainty. This, I suggest, offers useful insights toethnography and ethnographic writing and reading that we might characterise as‘After Queer’.
date: 2010
date_type: published
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
publication: Qualitative Studies in Education
volume: 23
number: 1
pagerange: 87-100
pages: 14
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0951-8398
citation:        Youdell, Deborah;      (2010)    Queer Outings?: uncomfortable stories about the subjects of post-structural school ethnography.                   Qualitative Studies in Education , 23  (1)   pp. 87-100.          Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10002074/1/YoudellQSE2010.pdf