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Carefree conferences? Academics with caring responsibilities performing mobile academic subjectivities

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Henderson, Emily F. and Moreau, Marie-Pierre (2020) Carefree conferences? Academics with caring responsibilities performing mobile academic subjectivities. Gender and Education, 32 (1). pp. 70-85. doi:10.1080/09540253.2019.1685654

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Abstract

This article explores how academics with caring responsibilities negotiate the mobility imperative, with specific reference to attending conferences. We argue that, in the neoliberal and ‘careless’ context of higher education, negotiating conflicting identities of academic and carer are fraught with tensions for carers as they try to reconcile the mobility imperative with their caring responsibilities. We acknowledge and also challenge the naturalised relationship between care and femininity, and use a feminist poststructuralist approach to analyse the competing discourses surrounding academic and care work. We draw on two distinct, but related, research projects with predominantly UK-based participants. Moreau’s project (‘Carers and Careers’, 2015–2017) explored how academic carers negotiate academic cultures which tend to render care work invisible, using interviews with academic carers and policy staff. Henderson’s project (‘In Two Places at Once’, 2017–2018) focused on the impact of caring responsibilities on academics’ conference participation, using diary-interview method.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: A General Works > AS Academies and learned societies (General)
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- )
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Congresses and conventions -- Attendance, Caregivers , College teachers , College teachers -- Family relationships, Mobility, Women -- Employment
Journal or Publication Title: Gender and Education
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0954-0253
Official Date: 2020
Dates:
DateEvent
2020Published
7 November 2019Available
29 August 2019Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit: 11 September 2019
Volume: 32
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 70-85
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2019.1685654
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Publisher Statement: “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Gender and Education on 07/11/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09540253.2019.1685654
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIEDLeadership Foundation for Higher Education (Great Britain)http://viaf.org/viaf/126517626/#Leadership_Foundation_for_Higher_Education_(Great_Britain)
Delivering ResultsUniversity of Warwickhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000741
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