Áine Mcallister
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887894 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Áine Mcallister |
| GIVEN NAMES | Áine |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcallister |
| SIGNATURE | MCALLISTER Á |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8079-6114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Intercultural creativity as criticality; exploring ways of knowing through translanguaging, poetry and dúchas in a borderlands space
In this article, I draw on translanguaging, poetry as knowing and critical pedagogy alongside Anzaldúan informed decolonial feminist thinking and the precolonial Irish Gaelic concept of dúchas, to inform a transdisciplinary intercultural creativity praxis-paradigm. Accordingly, theory and method remain intentionally entangled: beginning from my own culturally informed poetic positionality. I invite the reader to walk with me through the Irish lan…
Building cairns beyond the chimera
Competition and Collaboration in Higher Education
Higher education is in flux with more precarity, a stronger focus on effectiveness, and productivity having resulted in a competitive and hostile culture. For this article, we take a proactive approach to counteract the narrative of silencing by exploring the opportunities collaboration may afford. Drawing on our personal experiences, professional knowledge, and research, we engaged in a collaborative form of poetic inquiry. Our contribution in t…
Applied ethnopoetic analysis, poetic inquiry and a practice of vulnerability
This paper discusses the experience of four refugee and asylum seekers seeking access to Higher Education. The methodological framework intersects applied ethnopoetic analysis and poetic inquiry, underpinned by Freirean, Translanguaging dialogue. The approach foregrounds participants' voices to address a structural refusal to recognise the repertoires of multilingual marginalised participants. The paper deals with two types of vulnerability: vuln…
Seeking access. Applied ethnopoetic analysis
This paper discusses a poetic output of a research project at the intersection of linguistic ethnography (LE) and poetic inquiry (PI) which explores the barriers experienced by refugee and asylum seekers, seeking access to Higher Education. The research draws on Jan Blommaert’s applied ethnopoetics (AEP) work to reconstruct silenced voices ( Blommaert, 2006 ). AEP as a ‘means of recognition’ of marginalised voices is explored. The paper goes on t…
The Future of the National Contests
Seeking access. Applied ethnopoetic analysis
This paper discusses a poetic output of a research project at the intersection of linguistic ethnography (LE) and poetic inquiry (PI) which explores the barriers experienced by refugee and asylum seekers, seeking access to Higher Education. The research draws on Jan Blommaert’s applied ethnopoetics (AEP) work to reconstruct silenced voices ( Blommaert, 2006 ). AEP as a ‘means of recognition’ of marginalised voices is explored. The paper goes on t…
The Future of the National Contests
Seeking access. Applied ethnopoetic analysis
This paper discusses a poetic output of a research project at the intersection of linguistic ethnography (LE) and poetic inquiry (PI) which explores the barriers experienced by refugee and asylum seekers, seeking access to Higher Education. The research draws on Jan Blommaert’s applied ethnopoetics (AEP) work to reconstruct silenced voices ( Blommaert, 2006 ). AEP as a ‘means of recognition’ of marginalised voices is explored. The paper goes on t…
Competition and Collaboration in Higher Education
Higher education is in flux with more precarity, a stronger focus on effectiveness, and productivity having resulted in a competitive and hostile culture. For this article, we take a proactive approach to counteract the narrative of silencing by exploring the opportunities collaboration may afford. Drawing on our personal experiences, professional knowledge, and research, we engaged in a collaborative form of poetic inquiry. Our contribution in t…
Applied ethnopoetic analysis, poetic inquiry and a practice of vulnerability
This paper discusses the experience of four refugee and asylum seekers seeking access to Higher Education. The methodological framework intersects applied ethnopoetic analysis and poetic inquiry, underpinned by Freirean, Translanguaging dialogue. The approach foregrounds participants' voices to address a structural refusal to recognise the repertoires of multilingual marginalised participants. The paper deals with two types of vulnerability: vuln…
Intercultural creativity as criticality; exploring ways of knowing through translanguaging, poetry and dúchas in a borderlands space
In this article, I draw on translanguaging, poetry as knowing and critical pedagogy alongside Anzaldúan informed decolonial feminist thinking and the precolonial Irish Gaelic concept of dúchas, to inform a transdisciplinary intercultural creativity praxis-paradigm. Accordingly, theory and method remain intentionally entangled: beginning from my own culturally informed poetic positionality. I invite the reader to walk with me through the Irish lan…
Building cairns beyond the chimera
Pedagogy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Creativity (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work)