Grim tales: Meetings, matterings and moments of silencing and frustration in everyday academic life

Carol Taylor; Susanne Gannon; Gill Adams; Helen Donaghue; Stephanie Hannam-Swain; Jean Harris-Evans; Joan Healey; Patricia  Moore

doi:10.1016/j.ijer.2019.101513

Grim tales: Meetings, matterings and moments of silencing and frustration in everyday academic life

Carol Taylor, Susanne Gannon, Gill Adams, Helen Donaghue, Stephanie Hannam-Swain, Jean Harris-Evans, Joan Healey, Patricia Moore

Department of Education

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Abstract

Universities are dominated by marketisation, individualisation and competition, forces inimical to individual flourishing and collaborative endeavours. This article presents four stories from a collective biography workshop in which a group of women academics explored everyday moments in their university lives. The stories are grim tales of damage, silencing, frustration and cynicism, whose affects continue to reverberate. The article makes two contributions to higher education research. One, its focus on mundane moments offers insights into embodied dynamics of gender, power and affect within the neoliberal university. Two, it demonstrates how collective biography as a feminist methodology can mobilise increased awareness of shared experiences and, thereby, enable participants to work together to recognise and contest the affective grimness of their workplaces.

Original language	English
Article number	101513
Journal	International Journal of Educational Research
Volume	99
Early online date	28 Nov 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2019.101513
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Acceptance email copy

Allen Thurston (International Journal of Educational Research) <[email protected]>
Thu 21/11/2019 14:29
Carol Taylor
Ref: IJER_2019_1088_R1
Title: Grim tales: Meetings, matterings and moments of silencing and frustration in everyday academic life
Journal: International Journal of Educational Research

Dear Professor. Taylor,
I am pleased to inform you that your paper has been accepted for publication.
Your accepted manuscript will now be transferred to our production department. We will create a proof which you will be asked to check. You can read more about this here. Meanwhile, you will be asked to complete a number of online forms required for publication. If we need additional information from you during the production process, we will contact.
Thank you for submitting your work to International Journal of Educational Research. We hope you consider us again for future submissions.
Kind regards,
Allen Thurston
Editor
International Journal of Educational Research

Keywords

collective biography, power, academia, gender, affect

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Grim tales: Meetings, matterings and moments of silencing and frustration in everyday academic life

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