Intersectionality queer studies and hybridity: methodological frameworks for social research

This article seeks to draw links between intersectionality and queer studies as epistemological strands by examining their common methodological tasks and by tracing some similar difficulties of translating theory into research methods. Intersectionality is the systematic study of the ways in which differences such as race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity and other sociopolitical and cultural identities interrelate. Queer theory, when applied as a distinct methodological approach to the study of gender and sexuality, has sought to denaturalise categories of analysis and make normativity visible. By examining existing research projects framed as 'queer' alongside ones that use intersectionality, I consider the importance of positionality in research accounts. I revisit Judith Halberstam's (1998) 'Female Masculinity' and Gloria Anzaldua's (1987) 'Borderlands' and discuss the tension between the act of naming and the critical strategical adoption of categorical thinking. Finally, I suggest hybridity as one possible complementary methodological approach to those of intersectionality and queer studies. Hybridity can facilitate an understanding of shifting textual and material borders and can operate as a creative and political mode of destabilising not only complex social locations, but also research frameworks

Queer feminist media praxis: an introduction.

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Tracking biodata: Ownership and sharing, Final report

This report presents an outline of the main research activities, short fieldwork and key outputs that were undertaken and produced respectively during the research placement (as 2014 visiting scholar) at the research center science and justice, University of California, Santa Cruz. The research conducted during the period of the grant (January - April 2014) focuses on understandings of personal data ownership and sharing amongst individuals and digital health start-up companies who self-track in the San Francisco Bay area, and draws on wider research on wearable devices for monitoring health and well-being. The research placement was funded by the Research Council UK digital economy theme, under the NEMODE (New Economic Models in the Digital Economy) Network