Women Activating Agency in Academia

Metaphors, Manifestos and Memoir
Herausgeber: Black, Alison L; Garvis, Susanne

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Produktbeschreibung

Women Activating Agency in Academia seeks to create and expand safe spaces for scholarly, professional and personal stories and assemblages of agency . It provides a place to connect with the strategies women are using, and it explores core values of female academics linked to trust, relationship, wellbeing and ethics of care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781138551138
• ISBN-10: 1138551139
• Artikelnr.: 52456368

Autorenporträt

Alison L. Black is a narrative researcher and early childhood educator. Her arts-based research and scholarly work seeks to foster connectedness, community, wellbeing and meaning-making through the building of reflective and creative lives and identities. Ali is interested in storied and visual approaches for dismantling personal/professional binaries and representing lives. Her research and writing is concerned with the power and impact of collaborative and relational knowledge construction. Susanne Garvis is Professor of Child and Youth Studies in the Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg. Her focus is the field of early childhood education. Susanne has been involved in Australian, European and international research projects and is the current organizer of the Nordic Early Childhood Systems Approach Research Group.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Chapter 1 Telling stories, gaining wisdom: putting our voices into our practice
Chapter 2 You're not alone: discovering the power of sharing life narratives as academic women
Chapter 3 Responding to longings for slow scholarship: writing ourselves into being
Chapter 4 "We would love to have you over . . . ": building career capital in a new academic environment
Chapter 5 How yoga taught me about vocation
Chapter 6 Intergenerational bodies: women's knowledge production in supervisory relations
Chapter 7 Feasible utopias and affective flows in the academy: a mobilisation of hope and optimism
Chapter 8 Beyond silence and conformity: a reflection on academic activism as resistance to managerialism in the contemporary university
Chapter 9 Academia as therapy
Chapter 10 Travellers: traversing the academic landscape: a dialogue
Chapter 11 Confronting, collaborating, and crafting: an enlivening methodology for academic ecojustice activism
Chapter 12 Women writing to ourselves: rescuing the girl child from androcentricity
Chapter 13 Embracing the power of the self as a female scholar
Chapter 14 Vulnerability: an uncomfortable means to a positive place
Chapter 15 PhD: Pivotal Heart Development
Chapter 16 Stretching the elastic: can we change the heart of university management?
Chapter 17 To care for self and others: a collaborative conversation
Chapter 18 I am the compliant academic
Afterword
Index