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Queering "the idea of the university" : two queer conceptualizations of discursive deployment in higher education literature
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Henderson, Emily F. and Burford, James (2019) Queering "the idea of the university" : two queer conceptualizations of discursive deployment in higher education literature. Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 8 (2). 2. doi:10.31274/jctp.8201 ISSN 2325-1204.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.31274/jctp.8201
Abstract
‘The idea of the university’ is an expression which is frequently employed in discussions of what the university is, was, or could and should be. This article presents an exploration of the expression ‘the idea of the university’ reconceptualized as a queer signifier. Building on existing literature that works against the assumption that queer studies would always concentrate on people who identify as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer), the article takes as its object of study the expression ‘the idea of the university’. Firstly, ‘the idea of the university’ is discussed in relation to the queering potential of figurative language, in particular metaphors. In the formulation ‘the idea of the university’, ‘university’ is placed in subjugation to ‘idea’, which opens up what could be termed queer slippage in the signification process. Secondly, the article uses the political resignification of ‘queer’ as a springboard to address the citation practices that lead to the resignification of the expression ‘the idea of the university’. Thus, the article presents these two interlinked queer theorizations of the discursive use of ‘the idea of the university’ in higher education literature.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Queer theory, Education, Higher, Metaphor | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis | ||||
Publisher: | Iowa State University Digital Press | ||||
ISSN: | 2325-1204 | ||||
Official Date: | 9 October 2019 | ||||
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Volume: | 8 | ||||
Number: | 2 | ||||
Article Number: | 2 | ||||
DOI: | 10.31274/jctp.8201 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2019 Emily F. Henderson and James Burford | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 October 2019 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 January 2020 | ||||
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