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Comment on Failed femininities and troubled mothers: gender and the riots by Kim Allen and Yvette Taylor by The Riots One Year On: On Being Present | Weeks Centre Blog

The Riots One Year On: On Being Present | Weeks Centre Blog — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:07:50 +0000

[...] The conference was planned over the last year and was in part inspired by a piece for the BSA Sociology & the Cuts blog as a call to focus on the gendered aspects of protest, (in)visibility and the (dis)location of [...]

Comment on Mapping Campus: Entrances and Exits by Yvette Taylor by Fitting In at the Weeks Centre | Weeks Centre Blog

Fitting In at the Weeks Centre | Weeks Centre Blog — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:03:46 +0000

[...] to adapt in order to survive the 21st century cull in education. In simple evolutionary terms, ‘adapt or die’. Yet, things are obviously not so simple. When certain individuals already embody cultural valued, [...]

Comment on Sinking or Swimming? Academic Strokes, Anxious Provokes by Yvette Taylor and Kimberly Allen by Fitting In at the Weeks Centre | Weeks Centre Blog

Fitting In at the Weeks Centre | Weeks Centre Blog — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:03:43 +0000

[...] The repercussions of this austerity climate in HE are serious. Jobs are at risk, but what we also risk is an uneven retention of particular bodies that have been inscribed with a particular neoliberal embodiment of what denotes value (see ‘Academic Cares and Capacity’). I am concerned with what losses the HE sector stands to make, not only in terms of jobs, but also with regards to individuals who are not disposed to accrue value to themselves as easily as their colleagues. The looming onset of unemployment provides a sense of being aboard a sinking ship and forces participants to ‘size up’ their options and assess what capital they have to barter in order to retain their position on the proverbial ‘life boats’. Some participants talked about feeling confident in holding their own, whereas others felt less sure, expressing sinking morale, coinciding with a loss of prospects as real – rather than marketed – diversity disappears in turbulent waters (see ‘Sinking or Swimming’). [...]

Comment on Failed femininities and troubled mothers: gender and the riots by Kim Allen and Yvette Taylor by The Ugliness of Class, Parenting and Privilege | Weeks Centre Blog

The Ugliness of Class, Parenting and Privilege | Weeks Centre Blog — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:47:33 +0000

[...] conveyed here, with high ‘school lottery’ stakes and re-circulated risks of becoming the ‘wrong’ kind of mother, unbalanced from work-care and unable to resource her child-citizen into the future. As some women [...]

Comment on Sinking or Swimming? Academic Strokes, Anxious Provokes by Yvette Taylor and Kimberly Allen by Trying to Triumph? Academic Cares and Capacities | Weeks Centre Blog

Trying to Triumph? Academic Cares and Capacities | Weeks Centre Blog — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:11:05 +0000

[...] becomes harder in recessionary times, let’s thinks about alternative stories which fracture the ‘us’ and ‘them’of the successful/failing academic and institution. What other stories of academic cares and [...]

Comment on Failed femininities and troubled mothers: gender and the riots by Kim Allen and Yvette Taylor by Same-Sex Marriage, Horse and Carriage | Weeks Centre Blog

Same-Sex Marriage, Horse and Carriage | Weeks Centre Blog — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:19:14 +0000

[...] same-sex rights as linked to and made through ‘marriage with love’ (as well as marriage with ‘responsibility’, with gendered familial care, with tax-paying ‘responsibility’ and without much awareness of [...]

Comment on ESRC announces Doctoral Training Centres by John Holmwood by ‘Freedom’ of Choice: Choosing the ‘Right’ University? | Campaign for the Public University

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:47:28 +0000

[...] However, this system has been discarded and now studentships are exclusively allocated to just 21 Doctoral Training Centres (DTCs) involving 45 institutions. DTCs have been predominantly located in Russell group [...]

Comment on Sinking or Swimming? Academic Strokes, Anxious Provokes by Yvette Taylor and Kimberly Allen by The ‘Here’ and ‘There’, ‘Then’ and ‘Now’ of Gender Studies: Crisis, Competition and Claiming Space | Weeks Centre Blog

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:38:55 +0000

[...] is removed from re-distributive materialist critique, simply standing as solid and matter-of-fact (Taylor and Allen, 2011). What, then, is the significance of these new-old economies in re-creating forms of activism, [...]

Comment on Letter home? Distances, Proximities, Returns and Escapes by Yvette Taylor by weekscentre

weekscentre — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 07:46:09 +0000

See also ‘ In Process: Asylum, Arrival, Academia’
http://weekscentreforsocialandpolicyresearch.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/in-process-asylum-arrival-academia/

Comment on Sinking or Swimming? Academic Strokes, Anxious Provokes by Yvette Taylor and Kimberly Allen by Anon

Anon — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:42:35 +0000

see Gender and Educaiton Association blog ‘Feminist ‘Failures’ and Classroom Concerns’ at: http://www.genderandeducation.com/issues/feministfailures/#more-4238