Theorizing the “Public”—Recognizing Ephemeral and Migrating Publics and the Educative Agent Charman, K and Dixon, Mary 2022, Theorizing the “Public”—Recognizing Ephemeral and Migrating Publics and the Educative Agent, Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 282-289, doi: 10.1177/15327086221087661. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Theorizing the “Public”—Recognizing Ephemeral and Migrating Publics and the Educative Agent Author(s) Charman, K Dixon, Mary orcid.org/0000-0001-7736-9541 Journal name Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies Volume number 22 Issue number 3 Start page 282 End page 289 Total pages 8 Publisher SAGE Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2022 ISSN 1532-7086 1552-356X Keyword(s) public authority educative agent ephemeral migrating Summary As the parameters of social mobility decrease in light of COVID 19, we are turning away from the global to smaller iterations of community. These communities have always been there, but our collective gaze has, over a long period of time, persistently turned outward. Taking the term public, this article examines how iterations of the public realm reveal authority and the circulation of knowledge. We suggest two instances of the public realm “ephemeral” and “migrating” to draw attention to the inherent possibilities for communities to speak on their own authority. In so doing, this article draws on Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, and Nancy Luxon to offer a particular theoretical framework to recognize the appearance of what we term the educative agent. We are concerned with who has the authority and can enact the self as a speaking subject. We argue that power is increasingly standing in place of authority. A new concept is offered, that of the educative agent, which highlights the possibilities of the public. To understand how a sense of authority can be reinstated and recognized, we look to the work of Luxon. Language eng DOI 10.1177/15327086221087661 Field of Research 1303 Specialist Studies in Education 2001 Communication and Media Studies 2002 Cultural Studies HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30168510 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education 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 Wed, 18 May 2022, 11:53:34 EST Wed, 18 May 2022, 16:31:25 EST Wed, 18 May 2022, 16:41:24 EST Fri, 27 May 2022, 21:47:37 EST Sat, 28 May 2022, 06:04:21 EST Tue, 12 Jul 2022, 10:31:03 EST Tue, 12 Jul 2022, 14:11:18 EST Tue, 12 Jul 2022, 14:14:54 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 13 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 27 May 2022, 21:47:37 EST