This edited collection brings together the work of researchers and educators from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Colombia, Costa Rica, Portugal,and Mexico on education, pedagogy, and research from a queer perspective. It offers a space for the dissemination and development of new lines of analysis and intervention in the field of Queer Pedagogies in the region, relevant to the present and future of the field both in our countries and beyond. Chapters provide perspectives aware of the regional context but relevant from a theoretical and practical perspective beyond Ibero-America. The volume covers elementary, middle, and higher education, formal and informal, and includes theoretical and applied contributions on a variety of topics including public policies on education, queer youth, sex education, and conservative attacks against "gender ideology" in the region.

Provides a rigorous look into the current state of the field, including authors from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Colombia, Portugal, Costa Rica, and Mexico Contributes to current debates on queer pedagogies and education more broadly Includes a broad array of topics, methodological approaches, and educational levels Compiles in English the works of scholars working in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries

Autorentext

Moira Pérez is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Assistant Researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET). At the convergence of Practical Philosophy and Queer Theory, her research focuses on the articulation between violence and identity, with particular interest in epistemic and institutional violence.

Gracia Trujillo-Barbadillo is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Education at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain, and feminist and queer/cuir activist. Trujillo-Barbadillo has published on lgtbi and queer theories and political practices, queer epistemologies in education, sexual politics, memories, archives, and queer kinship and reproduction. 

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- Section I. Between Theories and Practices.- 2. Perspectivizing and reimagining queer times and places through collaborative interventionist research in a Brazilian school.- 3. Queering Freire's Pedagogies: Resistance, Empowerment and Transgression in Teacher Training.- 4. Queer, Crip, and Social Pedagogy: A Critical Hermeneutic Perspective.- 5. Pedagogical Devices in/of the Images. Notes on Lesbian Desire and Knowing How to Fuck.- Section II. Queering the Classroom and Beyond.- 6. Gender and Sexuality in the Brazilian Educational Rhizome: A Cartogenealogy of the Production of Difference in the Plot of Curricular Public Policies.- 7. Diva Yes! Free to Fly! Queer Resistance of Young Students in a Public School in the Capital of Piauí, Brazil.- 8. Claiming their Right to Appear: the Gender Studies Research Group, from the Free University of Colombia, as Maker of Oppositional Knowledge.- Section III. Queer Pedagogies in and for Regressive Times.- 9. 'Gender ideology' in conservative discourses: public sphere and sex education in Latin America.- 10. Subjectivities, bodies and desires: Costa Rican secondary teachers and students discourses about sexual diversity.- 11. Fear of a Queer Pedagogy of Law.- 12. "A Glossary of Queer".- 13. Conclusion: Shared horizons and future challenges.