Queering postcolonial travel writing

Postcolonial Travel Writing : Critical Explorations

Travel writing is an interdisciplinary genre that, in recent times, has become an important area of study. Closely linked to issues of imperialism, diaspora, multiculturalism, nationalism, identity, gender, globalization, colonialism and postcolonialism, it brings into play ideas of transculturation, the idea of the centre and the margin, border crossings, hybridity, location and displacement. ...

Review: Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations

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...

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 ...