Women Activating Agency in Academia
Women Activating Agency in Academia seeks to create and expand safe spaces for scholarly, professional and personal stories and assemblages of agency. It provides readers with the opportunity to connect with the strategies women are using to navigate academe and the core values, linked to trust, relationship, wellbeing and ethics of care, they live by.
The collection offers the stories of women academics from around the globe and across disciplines and showcases their efforts to meaningfully listen and converse in order to resist self-audit and diminished identities. Reflections come from a range of responsive, personal and aesthetic techniques, including writing groups, guided autobiography, auto-ethnography, collective activism and slow scholarship. Chapters engage with themes and ideas such as agency, neoliberalism, ontological security, androcentricity, identity and collegial support, which manifest in unique ways for female academics.
The focus in this volume is what really matters to women in the academy, as they share their efforts to be themselves in their work, to care for themselves and others and to count what isnt counted. It aims to prove how collaborative storytelling and discussion can empower female academics to preserve and achieve these ambitions.
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.
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Names: Black, Alison L., editor. | Garvis, Susanne, editor.
Title: Women activating agency in academia : metaphors, manifesto and
memoir / edited by Alison L. Black and Susanne Garvis.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017060355 | ISBN 9781138551138 (hardback : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781315147451 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Women college teachersProfessional relationships. |
Women in higher education. | Sex discrimination in higher education. |
Agent (Philosophy)
Classification: LCC LB2332.3 .W62 2018 | DDC 378.0082dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017060355
ISBN: 978-1-138-55113-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-14745-1 (ebk)
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Contents
MELISSA BURCHARD, AMY JOY LANOU, LEAH GREDEN MATHEWS, KARIN PETERSON, AND ALICE WELDON
MICHELLE BARKER, ANN WEBSTER-WRIGHT, DEANNE GANNAWAY, AND WENDY GREEN
ALISON L. BLACK
HEIDI HARJU-LUUKKAINEN
MELISSA MAHONEY
MARGARET SOMERVILLE AND SARAH CRINALL
JENNIFER CHARTERIS, ADELE NYE, AND MARGUERITE JONES
CHRISTINE MORLEY
DEE MICHELL
SHARN DONNISON AND SORREL PENN-EDWARDS
PETA WHITE, SANDRA WOOLTORTON, AND MARILYN PALMER
CECILY JENSEN-CLAYTON
RENA MACLEOD
NICOLE GREEN, CHERRY STEWART, AND BRENDA WOLODKO
SANDRA ENGSTROM
JUDY BACKHOUSE
RACHAEL HAYNES AND COURTNEY PEDERSEN
LINDA HENDERSON
Judy Backhouse is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she recently headed the School of Economic and Business Sciences. She researches Smart Cities, data for policy-making, higher education management and doctoral education. She was Director, Advice and Monitoring at the South African Council on Higher Education and previously worked in the information technology industry.
Michelle Barker is Professor, International Business and Asian Studies, at Griffith University. Her research expertise is in intercultural adjustment and intercultural skills development. Michelle has been trained in Canada and Australia in the Life Review method by Professor Marvin Westwood (University of British Columbia).
Alison L. Black is a narrative researcher and early childhood educator. A Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast, 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.
Melissa Burchard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UNC Asheville, USA. Melissa is a white, middle-class, middle-aged cis-gendered queer woman who teaches ethics, feminist theory and critical race theory, among other things. Currently her research interests are focused in issues of identity, sex and sexual abuse/violence, and contemporary trauma theory.
Jennifer Charteris is Senior Lecturer of Pedagogy at the University of New England School of Education. She conducts research associated with the politics of teacher and student learning and identity formation. Critical and post-structural theories inform much of her work. Jennifer researches in collaboration with educational leaders, teachers and students.
Sarah Crinall graduated from the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University and is a member of the Space, Place and Body research group and Naming the World emerging literacies collective. Sarah is interested in alternative ways of becoming related to water, place and bodies.