Prof. Jon Kjaran

My publications:

Aðalsteinsdóttir, A. E., & Kjaran, J. I. (2019). Heterósexísk orðanotkun íslenskra framhaldsskólanema. Netla. https://doi.org/10.24270/netla.2019.8

Benediktsdóttir, Á., & Kjaran, J. (2022). The ‘Other’ Side of Laugavegur: Past Queer Spaces in Reykjavík. In M. Bildon & S. Brunn (Eds.), Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places. A Changing World. (pp. 695–710). Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-03792-4?page=3&oscar-books=true#toc

Björnsdóttir, Á., & Kjaran, J. I. (2019). „GÆSin mín og GÆSin þín, Egils malt og appelsín“Orðræðan um kaffihúsið GÆS. Netla. https://doi.org/10.24270/netla.2019.6

Blidon, M., & Brunn, S. D. (Eds.). (2022). Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places: A Changing World. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03792-4

Brynjarsdóttir, E. M. J., Erlingsdóttir, I., & Ingvar Kjaran, J. (2023). Editorial. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 31(1), 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2023.2171728

Elísabeth Halldórsdóttir, B., & Ingvar Kjaran, J. (2020). Critical Race Theory methods in educational research: Examples from Iceland. In M. Ward & S. Delamont, Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education (pp. 49–67). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977159.00014

Francis, D. A., & Kjaran, J. I. (2020). Troubling the discourse of the victimization of queer youth in Icelandic and South African education. Feminism & Psychology, 30(4), 425–444. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353520912960

Francis, D. A., Kjaran, J. I., & Lehtonen, J. (Eds.). (2020). Queer Social Movements and Outreach Work in Schools: A Global Perspective. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41610-2

Guðjónsdóttir, R. Á., & Kjaran, J. I. (2023). Discourses on fathers who use intimate partner violence: An example from Icelandic mass media. Norma. International Journal for Masculinity Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2023.2171661

Guðmundsdóttir, Rakel, K., Jón Ingvar. (n.d.). Undir regnboganum.

Halldórsdóttir Gudjonsson, B. E., & Kjaran, J. I. (2018). Geeting a ´Feel for the Game´: How Do (Im)Migrant Students in Iceland Experience Higher Education and Gain Access to the Field? In Higher Education Challenges for Migrant and Refugee Students in a Global World (pp. 203–223). Peter Lang US. https://doi.org/10.3726/b14486

Kjaran, J. (2015). ‘Flaming Gays’ and ‘One of the Boys’? White Middle-class Boys, Queer Sexualities and Gender in Icelandic High Schools. In E. Renold, J. Ringrose, & D. Egan (Eds.), Children, Sexuality and Sexualization. (pp. 209–223). Palgrave Macmillan.

Kjaran, J. I. (n.d.). Queering the Icelandic Upper Secondary Schools. Heteronormative Discourse and the Experiences of Queer Students in Icelandic Upper Secondary Schools. 197.

Kjaran, J. I. (2017). Constructing Sexualities and Gendered Bodies in School Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan US. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53333-3

Kjaran, J. I. (2019a). Gay Life Stories: Same-Sex Desires in Post-Revolutionary Iran. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12831-9

Kjaran, J. I. (2019b). Gender-segregated spaces in Icelandic high schools: Resistance, power and subjectification. Gender and Education, 31(8), 1020–1039. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2017.1401046

Kjaran, J. I. (2021). How Do Gay Identifying Young Men Navigate Shame and Appropriate 68 Local Sexual Identity Labels. Journal of Educational Studies, 68–83.

Kjaran, J. I., & Halldórsdóttir, B. E. (n.d.). Epistemic Violence Toward Immigrant Women in Iceland: Silencing, Smothering, and Linguistic Deficit. 15.

Kjaran, J. I., & Halldórsdóttir Gudjonsson, B. E. (2021). Epistemic Violence Towards LGBTQ Students in Icelandic High Schools: Challenges and Opportunities for Transforming Schools. In Y. Odenbring & T. Johansson (Eds.), Violence, Victimisation and Young People (Vol. 4, pp. 173–191). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75319-1_11

Kjaran, J. I., & Jóhannesson, I. Á. (2013). Manifestations of Heterosexism in Icelandic Upper Secondary Schools and the Responses of LGBT Students. Journal of LGBT Youth, 10(4), 351–372. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2013.824373

Kjaran, J. I., & Jóhannesson, I. Á. (2015). Inclusion, exclusion and the queering of spaces in two Icelandic upper secondary schools. Ethnography and Education, 10(1), 42–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2014.925409

Kjaran, J. I., & Jóhannesson, I. Á. (2016). Masculinity strategies of young queer men as queer capital. NORMA, 11(1), 52–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2016.1143274

Kjaran, J. I., & Kristinsdóttir, G. (2015). Schooling sexualities and gendered bodies. Experiences of LGBT students in Icelandic upper secondary schools. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 19(9), 978–993. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2015.1019375

Kjaran, J. I., & Kristinsdóttir, G. (2021). Working on violent self: How perpetrators of IPV narrate about and position themselves during and after therapy? An example from Iceland. Nordic Social Work Research, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/2156857X.2021.1991443

Kjaran, J. I., & Lehtonen, J. (2018). Windows of opportunities: Nordic perspectives on sexual diversity in education. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 22(10), 1035–1047. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2017.1414319

Kjaran, J. I., & Martino, W. (2019). In search of queer spaces in Tehran: Heterotopias, power geometries and bodily orientations in queer Iranian men’s lives. Sexualities, 22(4), 587–604. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460717713383

Kjaran, J. I., & Naeimi, M. (2022). Queer Social Movements and Activism in Indonesia and Malaysia. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15809-4

Kjaran, J. I., & Saeidzadeh, Z. (2024). Trans* Activism in Indonesia and Iran: Working Against Misrecognition and Enhancing the Intelligibility of Trans* Subjectivities. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 25(1), 49–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2024.2312078

Kjaran, J. I., & Sauntson, H. (Eds.). (2019). Schools as Queer Transformative Spaces: Global Narratives on Sexualities and Genders (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351028820

Kjaran, J., & Jóhannesson, I. Á. (2017). Teaching about the Pink Holocaust in and Icelandic upper secondary school classroom: Queer counterpublics? In T. Vaahtera, A.-M. Niemi, & S. Lappalainen (Eds.), Troubling educational cultures in the Nordic countries. (pp. 140–160). The Tufnell Press.

Kjaran, J., & Kristinsdóttir, G. (2015). Queering the environment and caring for the self: Icelandic LGBT students’ experience of the upper secondary school. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 23(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2014.910250

Kjaran, J., & Naeimi, M. (2022). Bench Love in Daneshjoo Park: Queering Public Spaces and Pedagogy for the Public in Tehran. In M. Bildon & S. Brunn (Eds.), Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places. A Changing World. (pp. 105–123). Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-03792-4#toc

Kristinsdóttir, G., & Kjaran, J. I. (2021). „Ég veit náttúrlega alveg hvernig manneskja ég vil ekki vera“ Um karla sem beita konur ofbeldi í nánum samböndum. Skírnir, 195.

Martino, W., & Kjaran, J. I. (2019). The politics of recognizability: Giving an account of Iranian gay men´s lives under repressive conditions of sexuality governance. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 51(1), 21–41. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002074381800048X

Naeimi, M., & Kjaran, J. I. (2021a). Navigating and resisting the compulsory military service in Iran: Embodied experiences of non-heterosexual Iranian men. Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2021-0020

Naeimi, M., & Kjaran, J. I. (2021b). Schooling (hetero)normative practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Sex Education, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2021.1911797

Naeimi, M., & Kjaran, J. I. (2023). Sociology of Gender and Education. In M. Naeimi & J. I. Kjaran, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.72

Odenbring, Y., & Johansson, T. (Eds.). (2021). Violence, Victimisation and Young People: Education and Safe Learning Environments (Vol. 4). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75319-1

Ólafsdottir, K., & Kjaran, J. I. (2019). Boys in Power. Boyhood Studies, 12(1), 38–56. https://doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2019.120104

Pihl, J., Holm, G., Riitaoja, A.-L., Kjaran, J. I., & Carlson, M. (2018). Nordic discourses on marginalisation through education. Education Inquiry, 9(1), 22–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2018.1428032

Þrastardóttir, B., & Kjaran, J. I. (n.d.). Girls Claiming Discursive Space within the Dominant Discourse on Gender Performativity: A Case Study.