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Papers by Chantal Nadeau
Comunicacion Y Sociedad, 2002
... My hearty thanks to the Women's Studies Programme at Lancaster Unive... more ... My hearty thanks to the Women's Studies Programme at Lancaster University, Jackie Stacey, once again, Sara Ahmed, and Maureen McNeil for kindly inviting me in May 1998 to present beaver stitches in their speakers series, Skin. ...
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2014
When imagined in relation to other regions in the United States, the Midwest is often positioned ... more When imagined in relation to other regions in the United States, the Midwest is often positioned as the "norm," the uncontested site of middle-class white American heteronormativity. This characterization of the Midwest has often prevailed in scholarship on sexual identity, practice, and culture, but a growing body of recent queer work on rural sexualities, transnational migration, regional identities, and working-class cultures suggests the need to understand the Midwest other wise. This special issue offers an opportunity to think with, through, and against the idea of region. Rather than reinforce the idea of the Midwest as a core that essentializes and naturalizes American cultural and ideological formations, these essays instead open up possibilities for dispelling and unraveling the idea of the heartland. This special issue represents an engagement with and a creative departure from the notion of the American Midwest both as a geographic entity and as a discursive formation. The middle creates less a magisterial panoramic perspective than a queer vantage-a troubled, unstable perch buttressed by the dominance of the coasts and the "South." We believe that such instabilities are productive of alternative ways to approach space and time and to reimagine routes and paths, contours and shapes, directions and teloses of queer lives, practices, and institutions.
J anuary 7, 2015. paris. Two self-proclaimed soldiers of the Islamic State force their way into t... more J anuary 7, 2015. paris. Two self-proclaimed soldiers of the Islamic State force their way into the headquarters of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo ( hereafter, CH) and shoot dead twelve members of the staff and editorial team, including the head editor, Stéphane Charbonnier (also known as “Charb”). In the following minutes, another shooting takes place outside as the gunmen leave the building. La mort en direct of two police officers shot by Chérif Kouachi and Saïd Kouachi quickly becomes associated with a new era of jihad, which New Yorker correspondent John Cassidy refers to as the “Clash of Civilizations.” 1 However, in the turbulent days that follow, it becomes very clear that civilizational plurality does not exist. Only one civilization matters: the secular one promoted by Western democracies such as France.
Comunicacion Y Sociedad, 2002
... My hearty thanks to the Women's Studies Programme at Lancaster Unive... more ... My hearty thanks to the Women's Studies Programme at Lancaster University, Jackie Stacey, once again, Sara Ahmed, and Maureen McNeil for kindly inviting me in May 1998 to present beaver stitches in their speakers series, Skin. ...
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2014
When imagined in relation to other regions in the United States, the Midwest is often positioned ... more When imagined in relation to other regions in the United States, the Midwest is often positioned as the "norm," the uncontested site of middle-class white American heteronormativity. This characterization of the Midwest has often prevailed in scholarship on sexual identity, practice, and culture, but a growing body of recent queer work on rural sexualities, transnational migration, regional identities, and working-class cultures suggests the need to understand the Midwest other wise. This special issue offers an opportunity to think with, through, and against the idea of region. Rather than reinforce the idea of the Midwest as a core that essentializes and naturalizes American cultural and ideological formations, these essays instead open up possibilities for dispelling and unraveling the idea of the heartland. This special issue represents an engagement with and a creative departure from the notion of the American Midwest both as a geographic entity and as a discursive formation. The middle creates less a magisterial panoramic perspective than a queer vantage-a troubled, unstable perch buttressed by the dominance of the coasts and the "South." We believe that such instabilities are productive of alternative ways to approach space and time and to reimagine routes and paths, contours and shapes, directions and teloses of queer lives, practices, and institutions.
J anuary 7, 2015. paris. Two self-proclaimed soldiers of the Islamic State force their way into t... more J anuary 7, 2015. paris. Two self-proclaimed soldiers of the Islamic State force their way into the headquarters of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo ( hereafter, CH) and shoot dead twelve members of the staff and editorial team, including the head editor, Stéphane Charbonnier (also known as “Charb”). In the following minutes, another shooting takes place outside as the gunmen leave the building. La mort en direct of two police officers shot by Chérif Kouachi and Saïd Kouachi quickly becomes associated with a new era of jihad, which New Yorker correspondent John Cassidy refers to as the “Clash of Civilizations.” 1 However, in the turbulent days that follow, it becomes very clear that civilizational plurality does not exist. Only one civilization matters: the secular one promoted by Western democracies such as France.