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Critical Intimate Praxis

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Critical intimate praxis is a method of queering the space of a classroom by subverting discourses around intimacy as inappropriate in “intellectual” spaces. By incorporating affective experience into classroom spaces and interactions and relying on explorations of those experiences as analytic lenses from which to view social relationships, students can view emotions and relationships as socially constructed, created through particular discursive means, and produced by historical and political contexts. This praxis asks both teachers and students to engage in queering the ways in which intimacy and vulnerability lead to both identity construction and social change through the practice of ethical relations.

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  1. Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA

    Marilyn Preston

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  1. Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey, USA

    Nelson M. Rodriguez

  2. Critical Policy, Equity, and Leadership Studies, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

    Wayne J. Martino

  3. Critical Policy, Equity, and Leadership Studies, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

    Jennifer C. Ingrey

  4. Department of Teaching and Curriculum, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

    Edward Brockenbrough

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Preston, M. (2016). Critical Intimate Praxis. In: Rodriguez, N., Martino, W., Ingrey, J., Brockenbrough, E. (eds) Critical Concepts in Queer Studies and Education. Queer Studies and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55425-3_8

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