home cooked theory

Writing an abstract

If you are an academic, when in your professional life did you learn how to write an abstract? Did you? Were you ever taught? I’m trying to remember if I was. I don’t think so. Like many things I think I just sent drafts to my supervisor and learned through trial and error. This usually [...]

US trip

I am doing a couple of talks at the end of the month on the back of the Chicago Cultural Studies Association conference. It is just a quick US trip because it is the middle of a teaching semester… but one of the events is this talk at Rutgers University. Affective Labor and its Limitations. [...]

The research process

Week Two’s readings are: • Robert Dessaix. “Showing your Colours.” (and so forth). Sydney: Pan Macmillan/Picador (1998): 121-133. • Ann Game & Andrew Metcalfe. “Managing.” Passionate Sociology. London: Sage Publications (1996): 26-42. • Elspeth Probyn. “Writing Shame” [extract]. Blush: Faces of Shame. Sydney: University of New South Wales (2005): 129-43. (There is also a version [...]

Lisa Adkins @ Sydney this Friday

Very happy to see this: Department of Gender and Cultural Studies 2011 seminar series MONEY IS TIME: TEMPORALISATION, ECONOMIC CRISIS and BOURDIEU Professor Lisa Adkins, University of Newcastle This paper considers events related to the recent global financial crisis from the point of view of temporality. More specifically, it will elaborate how such events were [...]

First class

As promised, this semester I will be blogging alongside the class I teach on gender and cultural studies research methods. This is partly because I think it could be useful for postgrads elsewhere who don’t get access to this sort of advice regularly. But it is also because the course is designed to illustrate the [...]