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View article: After Belonging: Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s ‘I Still Call Australia Home’
After Belonging: Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s ‘I Still Call Australia Home’ Open
A classroom can be a place to belong. Students become settled, ideas become familiar, relations become belongings. Teachers attentive to belonging can support critical conversations without fear that students will accidentally stumble onto…
View article: Curious care: tacit knowledge and self-trust in doctoral training
Curious care: tacit knowledge and self-trust in doctoral training Open
Building on recent literature on supervision practice that has turned away from previous efforts to construct typologies, and towards 'dialogic' models that emphasise iterative feedback processes between students and supervisors in situ , …
View article: The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures
The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures Open
The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures explores stories about love that recuperate a vision of intimate life as a resource for creating bonds beyond heterosexual coupledom. This book offers a variety of ethical frames through which to…
View article: Higher degree research by numbers: beyond the critiques of neo-liberalism
Higher degree research by numbers: beyond the critiques of neo-liberalism Open
This article argues that strong theories of neo-liberalism do not provide an adequate frame for understanding the ways that measurement practices come to be embedded in the life-worlds of those working in higher education. We argue that ne…
View article: Thinking Without Monsters: The Role of the Philosopher in Moira Gatens
Thinking Without Monsters: The Role of the Philosopher in Moira Gatens Open
Moira Gatens poses questions that challenge the social and institutional worlds that sustain what we call philosophical thinking. This does not mean that Gatens pillories philosophy to secure polemical victories. It does mean that, drawing…
View article: Critical Approaches to Continental Philosophy: Intellectual Community, Disciplinary Identity, and the Politics of Inclusion
Critical Approaches to Continental Philosophy: Intellectual Community, Disciplinary Identity, and the Politics of Inclusion Open
This article examines what it means to produce critical continental philosophyin contexts where the label of continental may seem increasingly tenuous, ifnot entirely anachronistic. We follow Ghassan Hage in understanding criticalthought a…
View article: REVIEW | Soundtracks of Asian America: Navigating Race through Musical Performance
REVIEW | Soundtracks of Asian America: Navigating Race through Musical Performance Open
Stereotypes like to travel.Like Frankenstein's monster, they gain piecemeal limbs by trampling across disparate cultural domains, from television spoofs to fashion labels to schoolyard jokes.Stereotypes cannot easily be defeated by correct…
View article: Reading People Watching Music: Feminism, Fandom, Trolls
Reading People Watching Music: Feminism, Fandom, Trolls Open
This paper considers feminist approaches to contrasting modalities of communication in online forums and fansites. I begin by engaging with Eve Sedgwick's schematic distinction between paranoid and reparative readings, and link each modali…