Laura E Smithers
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 174244 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laura E Smithers |
| NOMBRES | Laura E |
| APELLIDO | Smithers |
| FIRMA | SMITHERS L E |
| AFILIACIONES | Old Dominion University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5706-3649 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Administrative life in the time before crisis
Minor pedagogy
Critical Inquiry in and Against 21st-Century Authoritarian Times
This paper forwards critical inquiry as a tool for hope against authoritarian movements in American public higher education. We utilize a speculative case study approach to interrogate the present moment, with its rising tide of authoritarian fascism in the United States and its manifestations in higher education. Rather than viewing this case (and its analogue) as solvable, we orient to it as a predicament. After introducing the problem of autho…
The Production of Alter-Competence
This paper asks how can higher education and student affairs (HESA) faculty influence the development of HESA practitioners outside of the reproduction of the present? First, I develop a theory of alter-competence, the practice of nonrepresentational thinking, through wonder. This theory is put to empirical work in a GPP classroom through post qualitative inquiry. The results paradoxically locate alter-competence, the nonplaces of competence, wit…
Predictive analytics and the creation of the permanent present
This article examines the work of predictive analytics in shaping the social worlds in which they thrive, and in particular the world of the first year of Great State University’s student success initiative. Specifically, this article investigates the following research paradox: predictive analytics, as driven by a logic premised on predicting the future, lock Great State University into a never-ending present. Through Brian Massumi’s concept of …
Impasses of Affective Inquiry in Pandemic Times
This paper puzzles through the doubled impasses of our affective inquiry into learning communities in a college setting. In so doing, we take on the incommensurabilities of our field site and post qualitative inquiry, providing an example of critical qualitative inquiry where theory and practice are made to work together at their limits, both compromising with each other, neither subordinated to the other. Affective inquiry, an instantiation of c…
(Navigating-Circling-Un/Doing)~Post-Qualitative Inquiry
In this collective biography, we follow the question: What does it do to think~post? We navigate~circle~un/do the entanglements of institutional and disciplinary boundaries and researcher identities, increasing striations of post-thinking within qualitative inquiry, teaching practices, ethics, and becoming. Our data include personal journals, crafts and collages, collective writing, dialogues, and images from a conference session where we engaged…
Fuck It
Profane methodologies is one way to describe research practices as creation rather than categorization and optimization. This essay takes on the utterance of fuck it, ubiquitous in late capitalism, as a spark that profanes methodologies. The essay explores the creative potential of fuck it in research methodologies in three ways. First, fuck it is situated within existing modes of inquiry. Second, fuck it is discussed as a performative that creat…
Student success as preemption
Queer Black adolescence, the impasse, and the pedagogy of cinema
This paper considers the potential of impasses within cinematic assemblages and the pedagogy of cinema to expand the possible horizons of Black queer youth. Black queerness in film provides pedagogical tools for exploring the limits of the category of queer. Both Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight and Dee Rees’s Pariah counter uncritical narratives of pathology, and are research data in their explorations of affective dimensions of gender, sexuality, race…
Qualitative Inquiry in the Making
This article builds on Mazzei's concept of minor inquiry to advance the concept of a minor pedagogy. We do so by folding poststructural theory into the evidence of experience, spotlighting a collective enunciation of the pedagogical event among individuated concepts, speakers, and moments. These pedagogical events are at once quotidian and more than one. In this spacetime individuation falls away, and the production of qualitative research expert…
Enactments of a Minor Inquiry
In this article, we map conditions and enactments for a new plane of inquiry, what Mazzei named a minor inquiry. Informed by our collective thinking with Deleuze and Guattari's discussion of a minor literature and its attendant characteristics, deterritorialization, political immediacy, and collective assemblage of enunciation, we present the conditions for inquiry on this new plane, provide enactments from our individual projects, and conclude w…
Reordering student affairs
Student affairs, a field comprised of many co- and extra-curricular university functions outside of academic affairs, has a durable left-leaning reputation. Roderick Ferguson’s theorization of minority absorption serves as the concept through which we investigate the practices of student affairs. Ferguson argues that student movements of the 1960s and 1970s, which aimed at transforming academic affairs into spaces of radical equity for minoritize…
This is not a checklist
This article examines the ACPA/NASPA Competencies as functional protocol of the neoliberal state. Described as ‘not a checklist’, Competencies structure rubrics, conferences, jobs, and performance as static, indicative of a power/knowledge rooted in protocol. We utilize post qualitative thinking, specifically poetics, to create a series of experimentations (in)tension with Competencies. This micropolitical practice disrupts protocol, opening imag…
Becoming-academic in the neoliberal academy
As evidenced by the collection of articles in Gender and Education’s July 2015 issue and various articles that have circulated recently on social media [American Council on Education. 2016. “New report looks at the status of women in higher education.” January 15. http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/New-Report-Looks-at-the-Status-of-Women-in-Higher-Education.aspx; Donald, A. 2016. “Women are too often actively sidelined against their will.” Tim…
Becoming-academic in the neoliberal academy
As evidenced by the collection of articles in Gender and Education’s July 2015 issue and various articles that have circulated recently on social media [American Council on Education. 2016. “New report looks at the status of women in higher education.” January 15. http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/New-Report-Looks-at-the-Status-of-Women-in-Higher-Education.aspx; Donald, A. 2016. “Women are too often actively sidelined against their will.” Tim…
Qualitative Inquiry in the Making
This article builds on Mazzei's concept of minor inquiry to advance the concept of a minor pedagogy. We do so by folding poststructural theory into the evidence of experience, spotlighting a collective enunciation of the pedagogical event among individuated concepts, speakers, and moments. These pedagogical events are at once quotidian and more than one. In this spacetime individuation falls away, and the production of qualitative research expert…
Enactments of a Minor Inquiry
In this article, we map conditions and enactments for a new plane of inquiry, what Mazzei named a minor inquiry. Informed by our collective thinking with Deleuze and Guattari's discussion of a minor literature and its attendant characteristics, deterritorialization, political immediacy, and collective assemblage of enunciation, we present the conditions for inquiry on this new plane, provide enactments from our individual projects, and conclude w…
Queer Black adolescence, the impasse, and the pedagogy of cinema
This paper considers the potential of impasses within cinematic assemblages and the pedagogy of cinema to expand the possible horizons of Black queer youth. Black queerness in film provides pedagogical tools for exploring the limits of the category of queer. Both Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight and Dee Rees’s Pariah counter uncritical narratives of pathology, and are research data in their explorations of affective dimensions of gender, sexuality, race…
Critical Inquiry in and Against 21st-Century Authoritarian Times
This paper forwards critical inquiry as a tool for hope against authoritarian movements in American public higher education. We utilize a speculative case study approach to interrogate the present moment, with its rising tide of authoritarian fascism in the United States and its manifestations in higher education. Rather than viewing this case (and its analogue) as solvable, we orient to it as a predicament. After introducing the problem of autho…
Student success as preemption
Reordering student affairs
Student affairs, a field comprised of many co- and extra-curricular university functions outside of academic affairs, has a durable left-leaning reputation. Roderick Ferguson’s theorization of minority absorption serves as the concept through which we investigate the practices of student affairs. Ferguson argues that student movements of the 1960s and 1970s, which aimed at transforming academic affairs into spaces of radical equity for minoritize…
This is not a checklist
This article examines the ACPA/NASPA Competencies as functional protocol of the neoliberal state. Described as ‘not a checklist’, Competencies structure rubrics, conferences, jobs, and performance as static, indicative of a power/knowledge rooted in protocol. We utilize post qualitative thinking, specifically poetics, to create a series of experimentations (in)tension with Competencies. This micropolitical practice disrupts protocol, opening imag…
Becoming-academic in the neoliberal academy
As evidenced by the collection of articles in Gender and Education’s July 2015 issue and various articles that have circulated recently on social media [American Council on Education. 2016. “New report looks at the status of women in higher education.” January 15. http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/New-Report-Looks-at-the-Status-of-Women-in-Higher-Education.aspx; Donald, A. 2016. “Women are too often actively sidelined against their will.” Tim…
Reordering student affairs
Student affairs, a field comprised of many co- and extra-curricular university functions outside of academic affairs, has a durable left-leaning reputation. Roderick Ferguson’s theorization of minority absorption serves as the concept through which we investigate the practices of student affairs. Ferguson argues that student movements of the 1960s and 1970s, which aimed at transforming academic affairs into spaces of radical equity for minoritize…
This is not a checklist
This article examines the ACPA/NASPA Competencies as functional protocol of the neoliberal state. Described as ‘not a checklist’, Competencies structure rubrics, conferences, jobs, and performance as static, indicative of a power/knowledge rooted in protocol. We utilize post qualitative thinking, specifically poetics, to create a series of experimentations (in)tension with Competencies. This micropolitical practice disrupts protocol, opening imag…
Student success as preemption
Queer Black adolescence, the impasse, and the pedagogy of cinema
This paper considers the potential of impasses within cinematic assemblages and the pedagogy of cinema to expand the possible horizons of Black queer youth. Black queerness in film provides pedagogical tools for exploring the limits of the category of queer. Both Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight and Dee Rees’s Pariah counter uncritical narratives of pathology, and are research data in their explorations of affective dimensions of gender, sexuality, race…
Qualitative Inquiry in the Making
This article builds on Mazzei's concept of minor inquiry to advance the concept of a minor pedagogy. We do so by folding poststructural theory into the evidence of experience, spotlighting a collective enunciation of the pedagogical event among individuated concepts, speakers, and moments. These pedagogical events are at once quotidian and more than one. In this spacetime individuation falls away, and the production of qualitative research expert…
Enactments of a Minor Inquiry
In this article, we map conditions and enactments for a new plane of inquiry, what Mazzei named a minor inquiry. Informed by our collective thinking with Deleuze and Guattari's discussion of a minor literature and its attendant characteristics, deterritorialization, political immediacy, and collective assemblage of enunciation, we present the conditions for inquiry on this new plane, provide enactments from our individual projects, and conclude w…
The Production of Alter-Competence
This paper asks how can higher education and student affairs (HESA) faculty influence the development of HESA practitioners outside of the reproduction of the present? First, I develop a theory of alter-competence, the practice of nonrepresentational thinking, through wonder. This theory is put to empirical work in a GPP classroom through post qualitative inquiry. The results paradoxically locate alter-competence, the nonplaces of competence, wit…
Predictive analytics and the creation of the permanent present
This article examines the work of predictive analytics in shaping the social worlds in which they thrive, and in particular the world of the first year of Great State University’s student success initiative. Specifically, this article investigates the following research paradox: predictive analytics, as driven by a logic premised on predicting the future, lock Great State University into a never-ending present. Through Brian Massumi’s concept of …
Impasses of Affective Inquiry in Pandemic Times
This paper puzzles through the doubled impasses of our affective inquiry into learning communities in a college setting. In so doing, we take on the incommensurabilities of our field site and post qualitative inquiry, providing an example of critical qualitative inquiry where theory and practice are made to work together at their limits, both compromising with each other, neither subordinated to the other. Affective inquiry, an instantiation of c…
(Navigating-Circling-Un/Doing)~Post-Qualitative Inquiry
In this collective biography, we follow the question: What does it do to think~post? We navigate~circle~un/do the entanglements of institutional and disciplinary boundaries and researcher identities, increasing striations of post-thinking within qualitative inquiry, teaching practices, ethics, and becoming. Our data include personal journals, crafts and collages, collective writing, dialogues, and images from a conference session where we engaged…
Fuck It
Profane methodologies is one way to describe research practices as creation rather than categorization and optimization. This essay takes on the utterance of fuck it, ubiquitous in late capitalism, as a spark that profanes methodologies. The essay explores the creative potential of fuck it in research methodologies in three ways. First, fuck it is situated within existing modes of inquiry. Second, fuck it is discussed as a performative that creat…
Minor pedagogy
Critical Inquiry in and Against 21st-Century Authoritarian Times
This paper forwards critical inquiry as a tool for hope against authoritarian movements in American public higher education. We utilize a speculative case study approach to interrogate the present moment, with its rising tide of authoritarian fascism in the United States and its manifestations in higher education. Rather than viewing this case (and its analogue) as solvable, we orient to it as a predicament. After introducing the problem of autho…
Administrative life in the time before crisis
Sociology (14 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Pedagogy (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras)