Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference 14-17th December 2016 Program Index

discussions about sexuality and sexual practices developed, within the space of schooling particular
normative scripts about lesbian and, especially, gay youth emerged. In 2016, the content of sexuality
education in Australian schools is again the subject of public discussion through debates that echo previous
controversies played out in relation to HIV/AIDS, but which also surface different sets of questions about
embodiment, trans bodies, sexuality and chrononormativity, and antinormativity. But such debates do far
more than signify what constitutes normativity/anti-normativity on the subject of
gender/sex/sexuality/embodiment. We consider these debates inspired by the notion of counterpublic
health (Race, 2009); an approach that pushes beyond a reading of what’s transgressive and what’s not in the
field of sexuality education to consider the relations between chrononormativity, embodiment and
competing sexual publics.
Susan Talburt
Horizons of Rights: Globalizing Chrononormativity and LGBT Youth
The globalization of same-sex marriage and “antihomophobic bullying” discourse constitutes a temporal
shift for LGBT youth, whose “horizon of expectation” (Freeman, 2010) is no longer the stasis of perpetual
abjection, but movement from an invisible, difficult past to an optimistic future. This paper turns to Chile to
trace the convergence of UNESCO, Todo Mejora, GLSEN, local activists, and the state in the production of
LGBT youth as needing protection from bad pasts through rights to safe schools and civil unions to secure
good futures. As Chile’s entry into a global morality of rights (Moyn, 2010) modernizes the nation, enabling
“natural” development for its population, LGBT youth are responsibilized to follow state-sponsored
temporalities for living (productivity, reproductivity, consumption), what Freeman (2010) calls
chrononormativity or “institutionally and culturally enforced rhythms, or timings, [that] shape flesh into
legible, acceptable embodiment” (4). Subjects and objects of chrononormativity must feel their timeliness
and materialize the promise of protection and rights.
Daniel Marshall*, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Rob Cover* & Peter Aggleton
Queer Generations: theorizing a concept
Drawing on archival research in queer youth history in Australia, conducted as part of an ongoing study of
belonging and sexual citizenship among gender and sexual minority youth, this paper will outline efforts to
theorise the notion of “queer generations”. Beginning with reflections on the utility of the concept, we will
discuss how this idea can be deployed to think about difference across time, gender and sexuality.
Considering queer generations in the context of the extant sexual citizenship literature we will reflect on
how generational knowledges can stabilise queerness while also providing new critical insights.
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Sonic cultures and practices (Chair, Yeung Yang)
Heikki Uimonen Radiogenic Sound Cultures in Call-in Programmes
During the last three years Finnish Broadcasting Company has been broadcasting a call-in programme on
environmental sounds. A three-hour live programme called Äänien ilta (Evening with Sounds) with
approximately 200 000 listeners consists of callers’ narratives on their personal experiences and memories
on contemporary and historical sonic phenomena from urban, agricultural and natural settings. Sound
requests are fulfilled with the help of sound archives and present-day soundscape recordings. This paper
studies the cultural, social and aesthetic nature of the requested sounds hypothesising them being parallel
to those of music call-ins in sharing music and experiences related to them. This is enabled by the fellow
listeners’ soundscape competence, referring to the ability to interpret sounds of a given cultural background.
Theoretically the programme is critically evaluated in relation to concept of the radiogenic referring to
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