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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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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2015.1011093
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 | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Higher Education Research & Development | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0729-4360 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2015 | ||||||||
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| 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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