Assemblage of Queer Activism as Public Pedagogy: An Assemblage of Theories
摘要
This chapter presents what we term a theoretical assemblage, integrating key concepts from poststructuralist and queer theoretical traditions to form a multidimensional framework for analyzing queer activism. Drawing on the works of Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Sara Ahmed, Henry Giroux, Gert Biesta, Judith Halberstam, and José Esteban Muñoz, the chapter explores questions of power, identity, spatiality, and temporality. This assemblage enables a critical examination of how ideas, events, and subjectivities are historically and politically constituted, particularly at the intersections of gender, sexuality, politics, education, and modernity. By situating this framework within queer activism, the chapter moves away from essentialist narratives and linear models of progress. Instead, it foregrounds activism as fragmented, affective, and non-linear, formed through situated practices, transnational flows, and disidentifications with normative structures. In the Icelandic context, where LGBTQIA+ rights are often framed through a narrative of progress and exceptionalism, this assemblage helps to interrogate how visibility, desire, and belonging are negotiated, resisted, and reimagined. Queer activism is, thus, understood not only as political resistance but as a dynamic and pedagogical process that reconfigures dominant temporal and spatial logics through embodied, relational, and affective interventions.