2015/03/01 by Jacek Kornak · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Latin American and Latino Studies #Historical Gender and Feminism Studies #Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies #Queer #Politics #Human sexuality #Gender studies #Queer theory #Sociology #Identity (music) #Race (biology) #Relation (database) #Class (philosophy) #Aesthetics #Epistemology #Political science #Art #Philosophy #Computer science #Law
paper · doi:10.7227/r.18.1.4
openalex publication_date 2015/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
In this article I critically examine the use of the concept “queer” in the work of Judith Butler. I investigate what kind of conceptual politics Butler performs through her use of “queer”. I suggest that “queer” was a term that particularly during the 1990s was used by Butler to repoliticise issues of identity, race, class and their relationship to sexuality. My hypothesis is that for Butler the concept “queer” is an open signifier that functions as a critical term in relation to various issues that Butler analyses.