Last week I participated in the conference Beyond Mothering Myths? Motherhood in an Age of Neoliberalism and Individualisation. With a partner recovering from foot surgery, children on school holidays and a busy time at work, my attendance was partial and interrupted. Those presentations I did attend were provocative and affecting. Lilia Mantai and I presented … Continue reading Sharing space
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Too many papers
This is the final post in a trilogy following the 6th International Academic Identities Conference at the University of Hiroshima. In my first post, I described the conference, its location, theme and keynote presentations. In the second, I highlighted four presentations that stretched my thinking. In this post, I want to share the four papers … Continue reading Too many papers
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The brutal concrete building where I studied for my PhD is now a hollow shell, with the promise of a wonderful new space to come in 2020. Re-reading Alison Phipps (2007) The sound of higher education: sensuous epistemologies and the mess of knowing for my recent post on the senses, I was thinking about how … Continue reading Joy
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