Feeling Ordinary
Posted on | December 15, 2004 |
Thanks Glen!
I’m back from Perth feeling far from ordinary after an amazing trip. The Queenslanders were out in force at CSAA. As promised, here is the paper I gave as part of the ‘Fields of Uncool’ panel. Plans are likely for a special journal issue on our theme, so stay tuned. Thanks to the many who came along. We were overwhelmed by the response.
I came home to the news of Andrew Bolt’s latest attack, which made me feel physically sick. How sad that a man would choose to make a career out of virulence. And how lucky for me that I have Elspeth Probyn as a friend and role model.
Category: Academia
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May 31st, 2006 @ 7:24 pm
[...] The conference where we first gave the papers seems a long time ago now, but its significance still resonates strongly for me on a number of levels. Perhaps most of all, it makes me believe in the power of acting collectively rather than individually to bring about the kind of relationships you need, whether personally or professionally. I am grateful to everyone I met at that conference who also believed in that, and helped to make it happen. Essentially we had to double the length of our conference papers to fit the journal’s new requirement for 6000 word articles. The irony of this is not lost on me - the issue is about the effects of professionalism on cultural studies, and the newly expanded word count has a somewhat transparent relationship to the impending RQF and the ranking of ‘quality’ journals. Anyway. My article in the issue - ‘Feeling Ordinary: Blogging as Conversational Scholarship’ - is very much based on the experience of having this blog for the last two years, and it talks explicitly about the ambivalences I feel and the contradictions I see in cultural studies’ institutional practice. If you’re reading this blog now, you might find it interesting, if you can wade through the ranting. [...]