Hannah Dyer

Hannah Dyer is a Canadian sociologist. She is an associate professor in the Department of Child & Youth Studies at Brock University. Quotes In 1991, Eve Sedgwick published an essay that may be said to have initiated contemporary queer theory’s consideration of childhood as a site of heteronormative intervention... [I] suggest that a queer methodological approach to child development and education can more generally disrupt teleologically constructed narratives of growth that require a developmental sequence which culminates in normalcy... Applying queer methods of analysis to studies of childhood can help to queer the rhetoric of innocence that constrains all children and help to refuse attempts to calculate the child’s future before it has the opportunity to explore desire... Strengthening a conceptual relation between ‘queer’ and ‘childhood’ can help to cultivate a culture of critique concerning the interruptive force of heteronormativity on the child’s development. "Queer Futurity and Childhood Innocence: Beyond the Injury of Development", Global Studies of Chilhood, vol. 7, no. 3 (2017), p. 292 External links Q141393865 Category:Living people Category:Sociologists from Canada Category:Women academics from Canada