Loading...
What's Queer About Political Science?
Smith, N.J. Lee, Donna
Smith, N.J.
Lee, Donna
Publication Date
2015
End of Embargo
Supervisor
Keywords
Rights
© 2015 Wiley. Reproduced in accordance with the
publisher's self-archiving policy. This is the accepted version of the article which
has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-856X.12037
Peer-Reviewed
yes
Open Access status
Accepted for publication
Institution
Department
Awarded
Embargo end date
Collections
Abstract
There is something queer (by which we mean strange) going on in the scholarly practice of political science. Why are political science scholars continuing to disregard issues of gender and sexuality—and in particular queer theory—in their lecture theatres, seminar rooms, textbooks, and journal articles? Such everyday issues around common human experience are considered by other social scientists to be central to the practice and theory of social relations. In this article we discuss how these commonplace issues are being written out of (or, more accurately, have never been written in to) contemporary political science. First, we present and discuss our findings on citation practice in order to evidence the queerness of what does and does not get cited in political science scholarship. We then go on to critique this practice before suggesting a broader agenda for the analysis of the political based on a queer theoretical approach.
Version
Accepted manuscript
Citation
Smith, N. J. and Lee, D. (2015), What's Queer About Political Science? The British Journal of Politics & International Relations. 17(1): 49–63.
Link to publisher’s version
Link to published version
Link to Version of Record
Type
Article
Qualification name
Notes
Full text was made available at the end of the publisher's embargo period: 20th Jan 2016