Introduction to Queer/ing Regions

Queering Aging Futures

This paper explores the potential for cultural gerontology to extend its ideas of diversity in aging experiences by opening space to rethink conceptions of successful aging futures. We propose a ‘queering’ of aging futures that disrupts the ways that expectations of a good later life and happy aging are seen to adhere to some bodies and subjectivities over others. Drawing on feminist, queer, an...

Queering evidence-based practice

That which is currently understood as evidence-based practice within the discipline of psychology primarily relies upon a positivist interpretation of the world around us. Whilst such an interpretation may be argued by some to be useful, others argue that it fails to recognise the impact of social contexts, and the role they play in producing particular negative mental health outcomes for margi...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Introduction to circular data

In many diverse scientific fields, the measurements are directions. For instance, a biologist may be measuring the direction of flight of a bird or the orientation of an animal. A series of such observations is called ”directional data”. Since a direction has no magnitude, these can be conveniently represented as points on the circumference of a unit circle centered at the origin or as unit ...

Queering China a New Synthesis

Despite the title of this review essay, none of the four books under review adopts the word queer in its title. This serves as both an encouraging sign and a cautionary tale. This is encouraging because, as James Welker has pointed out recently, the horizon of queer studies has evolved and been decentered so rapidly that North America is no longer the only powerhouse, or the exclusive place of ...