Ben Nichol
Biographic Data
| ID | 3750466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Nichol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Nichol |
| SIGNATURE | BEN NICHOL |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Supreme Court ruling
On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court issued a ruling on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 (EA), after a group called For Women Scotland challenged the Scottish Government’s interpretation of the Act. The Scottish Government had interpreted safeguards that are provided in the EA for the protected characteristic of ‘sex’ to include people who have legally changed their sex and hold a ‘gender recognition certificate’. The Supreme Court…
Library fever
Scholars across disciplines have recognised the symbolic and practical importance of information infrastructures in queer lives – from archives to the contemporary Internet. This essay builds on this work to argue that crucial to understanding this fact is what it says about the place of structure and order in queer history and theory. While these ideas have tended to be maligned in queer thought, and imagined primarily as manifestations of Fouca…
Reductive
What is so bad about the "reductive"? In queer and other scholarship, reductionism signals simplistic homogeneity, fixity, and limitation, which are ideas often taken to be self-evidently problematic. Addressing a range of theoretical material, especially the work of Leo Bersani, this essay attributes the taken-for-granted status of reductionism to queer theory's structuring opposition to ideas associated with sameness-among them normativity, rep…
Reductive
What is so bad about the "reductive"? In queer and other scholarship, reductionism signals simplistic homogeneity, fixity, and limitation, which are ideas often taken to be self-evidently problematic. Addressing a range of theoretical material, especially the work of Leo Bersani, this essay attributes the taken-for-granted status of reductionism to queer theory's structuring opposition to ideas associated with sameness-among them normativity, rep…
Reductive
What is so bad about the "reductive"? In queer and other scholarship, reductionism signals simplistic homogeneity, fixity, and limitation, which are ideas often taken to be self-evidently problematic. Addressing a range of theoretical material, especially the work of Leo Bersani, this essay attributes the taken-for-granted status of reductionism to queer theory's structuring opposition to ideas associated with sameness-among them normativity, rep…
Library fever
Scholars across disciplines have recognised the symbolic and practical importance of information infrastructures in queer lives – from archives to the contemporary Internet. This essay builds on this work to argue that crucial to understanding this fact is what it says about the place of structure and order in queer history and theory. While these ideas have tended to be maligned in queer thought, and imagined primarily as manifestations of Fouca…
The Supreme Court ruling
On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court issued a ruling on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 (EA), after a group called For Women Scotland challenged the Scottish Government’s interpretation of the Act. The Scottish Government had interpreted safeguards that are provided in the EA for the protected characteristic of ‘sex’ to include people who have legally changed their sex and hold a ‘gender recognition certificate’. The Supreme Court…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Queer (2 works) · Queer theory (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)