Paul W Eaton
Biographic Data
| ID | 174243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul W Eaton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul W |
| FAMILY NAME | Eaton |
| SIGNATURE | EATON P W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam Houston State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4739-2676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: Scholarly Reading Practices
Administrative life in the time before crisis: Affect and the codependence of data and fear
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…
(Navigating-Circling-Un/Doing)~Post-Qualitative Inquiry: A Collective Biography
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…
James Baldwin’s curricular voice: Interrogating whiteness as curriculum
I begin in this article with an examination of James Baldwin as a distinct curricular voice whose work opens a dialogue interrogating whiteness as curriculum. In a series of essays, “The White Problem,” “On Being White ... And Other Lies,” “The White Man’s Guilt,” and “White Racism or World Community,” Baldwin directly addressed white people on the question of whiteness in four ways: addressing historic denial, amnesia, and mythologizing; the psy…
Practicing truth-telling inquiry: Parrhesia in daily lived experiences
In this article, we entangle with Aaron Kuntz’s book The Responsible Methodologist, extending the conversation beyond research into the realms of teaching, learning, and daily lived practices as twenty-first century academics. Kuntz advocates for parrhesiastic living and inquiry, defined as truth-telling and intervention toward ends of disrupting normative practices of knowing and being and enacting socially just ends. We grapple with three philo…
Student Affairs Professionals on Facebook: An Empirical Look
This study focused on understanding how college student educators use The Student Affairs Professional Facebook group. Through descriptive and qualitative analysis of posts, shares, comments, and interactions, this study identifies central topics and issues discussed over a 14-month period. This research shows how college student educators use this Facebook group to share professional development, offer learning/training resources, disseminate gr…
Networked practices in higher education: A netnography of the #AcAdv chat community
Being/becoming professional online: Wayfinding through networked practices and digital experiences
Social media platforms and digital networks have enabled professionals to communicate with colleagues, disseminate information, and co-create knowledge. As the Internet has grown up and social networks have scaled, there is an increased awareness of the occupational impact of being online. Prior research in postsecondary education has examined the structure of social networks, imagined audiences online, openness of practice, and informational/com…
Reordering student affairs: From minority absorption to a radical new
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: Higher education and student affairs competencies , neoliberal protocol, and poetics
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…
Perturbing possibilities in the postqualitative turn: Lessons from Taoism (道) and Ubuntu
Recognizing cognitive imperialism in the emerging postqualitative regime, we propose a hesitation, a perturbation to think the other-than-ness of the west. Asserting the postqualitative regime as west reinforces hegemonic epistemological violence; we look to the East and Africa – progenitors of the west-termed postqualitative regime and seek to privilege the onto–epistemologies from which these concepts were culturally (mis)appropriated. More spe…
Perturbing possibilities in the postqualitative turn: Lessons from Taoism (道) and Ubuntu
Recognizing cognitive imperialism in the emerging postqualitative regime, we propose a hesitation, a perturbation to think the other-than-ness of the west. Asserting the postqualitative regime as west reinforces hegemonic epistemological violence; we look to the East and Africa – progenitors of the west-termed postqualitative regime and seek to privilege the onto–epistemologies from which these concepts were culturally (mis)appropriated. More spe…
Being/becoming professional online: Wayfinding through networked practices and digital experiences
Social media platforms and digital networks have enabled professionals to communicate with colleagues, disseminate information, and co-create knowledge. As the Internet has grown up and social networks have scaled, there is an increased awareness of the occupational impact of being online. Prior research in postsecondary education has examined the structure of social networks, imagined audiences online, openness of practice, and informational/com…
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…
Practicing truth-telling inquiry: Parrhesia in daily lived experiences
In this article, we entangle with Aaron Kuntz’s book The Responsible Methodologist, extending the conversation beyond research into the realms of teaching, learning, and daily lived practices as twenty-first century academics. Kuntz advocates for parrhesiastic living and inquiry, defined as truth-telling and intervention toward ends of disrupting normative practices of knowing and being and enacting socially just ends. We grapple with three philo…
Reordering student affairs: From minority absorption to a radical new
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: Higher education and student affairs competencies , neoliberal protocol, and poetics
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…
Perturbing possibilities in the postqualitative turn: Lessons from Taoism (道) and Ubuntu
Recognizing cognitive imperialism in the emerging postqualitative regime, we propose a hesitation, a perturbation to think the other-than-ness of the west. Asserting the postqualitative regime as west reinforces hegemonic epistemological violence; we look to the East and Africa – progenitors of the west-termed postqualitative regime and seek to privilege the onto–epistemologies from which these concepts were culturally (mis)appropriated. More spe…
Reordering student affairs: From minority absorption to a radical new
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: Higher education and student affairs competencies , neoliberal protocol, and poetics
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…
Networked practices in higher education: A netnography of the #AcAdv chat community
Being/becoming professional online: Wayfinding through networked practices and digital experiences
Social media platforms and digital networks have enabled professionals to communicate with colleagues, disseminate information, and co-create knowledge. As the Internet has grown up and social networks have scaled, there is an increased awareness of the occupational impact of being online. Prior research in postsecondary education has examined the structure of social networks, imagined audiences online, openness of practice, and informational/com…
Student Affairs Professionals on Facebook: An Empirical Look
This study focused on understanding how college student educators use The Student Affairs Professional Facebook group. Through descriptive and qualitative analysis of posts, shares, comments, and interactions, this study identifies central topics and issues discussed over a 14-month period. This research shows how college student educators use this Facebook group to share professional development, offer learning/training resources, disseminate gr…
(Navigating-Circling-Un/Doing)~Post-Qualitative Inquiry: A Collective Biography
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…
James Baldwin’s curricular voice: Interrogating whiteness as curriculum
I begin in this article with an examination of James Baldwin as a distinct curricular voice whose work opens a dialogue interrogating whiteness as curriculum. In a series of essays, “The White Problem,” “On Being White ... And Other Lies,” “The White Man’s Guilt,” and “White Racism or World Community,” Baldwin directly addressed white people on the question of whiteness in four ways: addressing historic denial, amnesia, and mythologizing; the psy…
Practicing truth-telling inquiry: Parrhesia in daily lived experiences
In this article, we entangle with Aaron Kuntz’s book The Responsible Methodologist, extending the conversation beyond research into the realms of teaching, learning, and daily lived practices as twenty-first century academics. Kuntz advocates for parrhesiastic living and inquiry, defined as truth-telling and intervention toward ends of disrupting normative practices of knowing and being and enacting socially just ends. We grapple with three philo…
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…
Introduction: Scholarly Reading Practices
Administrative life in the time before crisis: Affect and the codependence of data and fear
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)