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Henderson, Emily F. (2018) Feminist conference time : aiming (not) to have been there. In: Taylor, Y. and Lahad, K., (eds.) The Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University : Feminist Flights, Fights and Failures Cham. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education . Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan US., pp. 33-60. ISBN 9783319642246
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Abstract
‘I was thinking, “I’ve travelled all this way, and I was looking forward to this, and my mind is somewhere else.”’ This is an excerpt from an interview with a feminist academic, taken from my ethnographic study of three national Women’s Studies conferences (India, UK, US). It is one example of the multiple temporalities that are experienced by feminist scholars when they make a break with the everyday and move their bodies to a conference (Henderson, 2015); anticipation layered with bodily presence in the here and now, layered with ongoing and future-oriented ‘somewhere else’-ness. This chapter explores academic feminist conferences as confluence points where multiple, competing, affective temporalities collide; I present a theorisation of ‘conference time’ that encompasses two competing temporal modes. Firstly, a feminist conference involves an embodied experience of being there, of being present in space and time, of taking time to think and take stock. However, ‘being there’ may also be experienced as an irritation that is impeding a more future-oriented modes of being: ‘having been there’, and/or ‘not having been there’. Both of the aspects of this mode involve ‘catching up’ with the future. ‘Having been there’ relates to the conference experience that is lived for the gains it will have brought, a line on the CV, for example. ‘Not having been there’ refers to the expectation that the conference attendee will be able to return home seemingly without having interrupted normal work patterns, having kept up with emails, for example. These modes, which may be experienced simultaneously, represent some of the tensions involved in occupying the subject-position of ‘feminist academic’ (Pereira, 2015): how to maintain a commitment to the field, to collegiality, to thinking, when academic success seems to demand an individualistic, performative, future-oriented approach?
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman L Education > LC Special aspects of education |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Feminism and higher education, Women college teachers, Congresses and conventions | ||||||
| Series Name: | Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education | ||||||
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US. | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Cham, Switzerland | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9783319642246 | ||||||
| Book Title: | The Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University : Feminist Flights, Fights and Failures Cham | ||||||
| Editor: | Taylor, Y. and Lahad, K. | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2018 | ||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 April 2018 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 33-60 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-64224-6 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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