Abstract
Queer theory is a highly productive approach that has facilitated critical interventions into understanding sexual identity configurations. However, the aim of this chapter is to disturb the conceptual and empirical privileging of the “sexual” that queer theory often provides. In response, this chapter uses queer theory to examine the interplay between gender, ethnicity/race, and generation and State-led discourses that transform the ethnic subject to a religious one. It does this by focusing on the concept of “containment” and exploring how categories stabilize and secure identities. We particularly focus on a queer use of containment as an epistemological device that has helped us to co-produce reflexive narratives of young men’s (dis)identification with ethnic categories, difference, and community.
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Haywood, C., an Ghaill, M.M. (2016). Containment. 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_7
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