Propositions for a queerer sociology

• In Event: Sociology of Sex and Gender Section Roundtables
  In Refereed Roundtable (60 minute): Table 1. Feminist Methods and Queering Sociology

Abstract

This presentation discusses video performance as a method to make “queer ways penetrate the
sociological imagination” (Angela Jones) and “take queer theory seriously” in sociology (Alison Rooke).
Through the example of an ongoing series that articulates live performances, sound, and analog film, I
suggest that performance (furthermore when informed by transgender and anarchist theory), can help
ethnographers critically address dominant canons in their research and, ultimately, foster hermeneutical
justice at the intersection of the social sciences and the arts.

Author

• Julie Patarin-Jossec, DePaul University