Academic Conferences: Representative and Resistant Sites for Higher Education Research

Autor/in	Henderson, Emily F.
Titel	Academic Conferences: Representative and Resistant Sites for Higher Education Research
Quelle	In: Higher Education Research and Development, 34 (2015) 5, S.914-925 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0729-4360
DOI	10.1080/07294360.2015.1011093
Schlagwörter	Conferences (Gatherings); Higher Education; Educational Research; Global Approach; Technology Uses in Education; Neoliberalism; Gender Issues; Psychology; Social Influences; Identification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Globales Denken; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Geschlechterfrage; Psychologie; Sozialer Einfluss; Identifikation; Identifizierung
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01