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Academic conferences : representative and resistant sites for higher education research

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Henderson, Emily F. (2015) Academic conferences : representative and resistant sites for higher education research. Higher Education Research & Development, 34 (5). pp. 914-925. doi:10.1080/07294360.2015.1011093

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Abstract

The overarching argument made in this article is twofold. Firstly, academic conferences are posited as sites for higher education research. Secondly, the well-recognised emotional and social processes of conferences are used to make space at the boundaries of higher education research for psychosocial analysis. The article theorises conferences in relation to the current concerns of higher education, such as globalisation, technologisation and neoliberalisation, but simultaneously delves into the micro-conventions of academic spaces. This latter mode of analysis is adapted from Butler's (1997) work Excitable speech: A politics of the performative (New York: Routledge), around naming and vulnerability to language. An autobiographical example of naming and misnaming at a conference is worked through, both zooming in to micro-processes and zooming out to the wider concerns of higher education research. The article asserts the importance of recognising the connection between micro- and macro-scale analyses of higher education.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- )
Journal or Publication Title: Higher Education Research & Development
ISSN: 0729-4360
Official Date: 2015
Dates:
DateEvent
2015Published
12 March 2015Available
2014Accepted
Volume: 34
Number: 5
Page Range: pp. 914-925
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2015.1011093
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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