The emotional knots of academicity: a collective biography of academic subjectivities and spaces Charteris, Jennifer, Gannon, Susanne, Mayes, Eve, Nye, Adele and Stephenson, Lauren 2016, The emotional knots of academicity: a collective biography of academic subjectivities and spaces, Higher education research & development, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 31-44, doi: 10.1080/07294360.2015.1121209. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The emotional knots of academicity: a collective biography of academic subjectivities and spaces Author(s) Charteris, Jennifer Gannon, Susanne Mayes, Eve orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-2489 Nye, Adele Stephenson, Lauren Journal name Higher education research & development Volume number 35 Issue number 1 Start page 31 End page 44 Total pages 14 Publisher Taylor & Francis Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2016 ISSN 0729-4360 1469-8366 Keyword(s) Academicity affect collective biography knowledge economy space Summary The highly imagined and contested space of higher education is invested with an affectively loaded ‘knowledge economy optimism’. Drawing on recent work in affect and critical geography, this paper considers the e/affects of the promises of the knowledge economy on its knowledge workers. We extend previous analyses of the discursive constitution of academic subjectivity through the figuration of ‘emotional knots’ as we explore three stories of the constitution of academic subjectivities in institutional spaces. These stories were composed in a collective biography workshop, where participants constructed accounts of the physical, social, material and imaginative dimensions of subjectivities in the ‘academic-city’ of higher education spaces. Identifying moments of ‘perturbation’ in these stories, this paper considers the micro-contexts of ‘becoming academic’: how bodies, affects and relations become knotted in precise times and places. The figuration of ‘knots’ provides an analytical strategy for unravelling how subjects affectively invest in the promises of spaces saturated with knowledge economy discourses, and moments of impasse where these promises ring hollow. We examine the affective bargains made in order to flourish in the corporate university and identify spaces of possibility where optimistic projections of alternative futures might be formed. These stories and their analysis complicate the metanarrative of ‘knowledge economy optimism’ that is currently driving higher education reform in Australia. Language eng DOI 10.1080/07294360.2015.1121209 Field of Research 130103 Higher Education 13 Education Socio Economic Objective 939904 Gender Aspects of Education HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2016, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30084598 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Education Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 01 Jul 2016, 13:38:18 EST Fri, 01 Jul 2016, 13:40:46 EST Sat, 02 Jul 2016, 05:00:20 EST Mon, 04 Jul 2016, 12:46:34 EST Tue, 02 Aug 2016, 06:09:40 EST Mon, 22 Aug 2016, 10:55:59 EST Mon, 22 Aug 2016, 10:56:59 EST Mon, 22 Aug 2016, 10:59:15 EST Mon, 22 Aug 2016, 11:14:12 EST Thu, 25 Aug 2016, 11:59:11 EST Thu, 25 Aug 2016, 11:59:50 EST Tue, 14 Mar 2017, 09:50:06 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 3 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 41 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 01 Jul 2016, 13:40:46 EST

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