G Tsolidis
Biographic Data
| ID | 66939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Tsolidis |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsolidis |
| SIGNATURE | TSOLIDIS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Federation University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5543-432X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer
There are two aims in writing this paper. Firstly, I reflect on several incidents that highlighted for me what it meant to be a widow in the eyes of others. The intention is to bring to light how becoming a widow reinforces how people define you relative to a man, more poignant because that man is absent. Providing personal insights sifted through theory is a form of feminist autoethnography that functions here as an intervention into more common…
Researching school choice in regional Australia: What can this tell us about the ethnographic imaginary
This is an exploration of methodological debates related to ethnographic research. Reflection on conducting research on school choice in an Australian regional centre is the beginning point for a discussion of what Appadurai describes as a dialectical relationship between the neighbourhood and its capacity to exist and reshape itself in relation to outside forces. The place of the researcher is considered in relation to a regional context and the…
Memories of Home: Family in the Diaspora
This article draws on long-term work on diasporic identification whereby the Greek community is used as an exemplar of diaspora. A particular focus of this work has been the maternal and the role women play in transferring cultural identity between nations and between generations. In this context, diasporic identification is understood in Hall's sense of invoking a past and evoking a future personal becoming. Qualitative research has been carried…
Home Space: Youth Identification in the Greek Diaspora
This article draws on a larger study on schooling and diaspora using the case of the Greek community of Melbourne, Australia to examine processes of identification of young people with access to minority cultures. The Melbourne Greek community is long-standing, diverse, and well-established. Because of this, the young people involved in this study provide insights into cultural processes not related in any direct sense to migration. In most cases…
Simpson, His Donkey and the Rest of Us—Public pedagogies of the value of belonging
At the heart of this paper is an exploration of belonging and how this is assumed to connect with a set of values represented as national. There is a particular interest in the relationship between these values and education. Because the significance of the learning that occurs through the public domain outside educational institutions such as schools is assumed, several cultural texts are examined in order to consider public pedagogies of Austra…
Being a 'wog' in Melbourne - young people's self-fashioning through discourses of racism
The Greek community in Melbourne, Australia, is large and has a long history in the city. It is diverse and associated with a range of cultural, social and political structures. It has strong transnational links and in many ways exemplifies ‘diasporic’ in contradistinction to ‘migrant’. This paper focuses on young people from this community, particularly those who attend schools established to promote Greek language and cultural maintenance. In t…
The (im)possibility of poststructuralist ethnography – researching identities in borrowed spaces
The notion of site is critical to ethnography and provides a sense of spatial stability – somewhere the researcher enters in order to research what is contained within. Using contemporary understandings of space, the author reflects on two studies to explore the (im)possibility of poststructuralist ethnography. The first study was undertaken in a ‘real’ school utilising a multi-method approach over a long period of time. The other was conducted i…
After hours’ schools as core to the spatial politics of ‘in‐betweenness’
In this article the authors draw on a larger study in which their overall concern is to illustrate how diasporic identifications develop through a range of scales related to self, family, community, nation and beyond. They consider the Melbourne Greek community as an exemplar of diasporic experience and use it as a case study for their investigation, which is aimed at exploring how transcultural literacies relate to spaces which complicate and en…
Strategic encounters: Choosing school subcultures that facilitate imagined futures
In the Australian state of Victoria, students from elite independent and Catholic schools dominate entry into elite universities. Nonetheless, there are a small number of schools within the government sector whose students succeed in these terms. Such schools are considered highly academic and entry is very difficult. This paper is based on initial findings from an ethnographic study of one such school. Interview material is used to explore how s…
Single‐sex schooling: Is it simply a ‘class act’
The current debate about boys education risks taking us back decades in terms of understanding the significance of gender in relation to education. Of particular concern here is the tendency within such debates to rely on dichotomous understandings of gender which reinscribe essentialist understandings of both ‘girls’ and ‘boys’. In this way, the so‐called gender wars construct a climate whereby difference between the categories obfuscates differ…
The Role of the Maternal in Diasporic Cultural Reproduction - Australia, Canada and Greece
Cultural reproduction is examined in this paper, not in the sense of replication, but as the creation of something new. Women's work in such cultural reproduction is explored through the experiences of Greek-identified women who live in Canada and Australia, or who have lived in these countries and now reside in Greece. These women are the daughters of immigrants who are now rearing the so-called third generation. Of particular interest is the wa…
The Role of the Maternal in Diasporic Cultural Reproduction−Australia, Canada and Greece
Cultural reproduction is examined in this paper, not in the sense of replication, but as the creation of something new. Women's work in such cultural reproduction is explored through the experiences of Greek-identified women who live in Canada and Australia, or who have lived in these countries and now reside in Greece. These women are the daughters of immigrants who are now rearing the so-called third generation. Of particular interest is the wa…
The Role of the Maternal in Diasporic Cultural ReproductionAustralia, Canada and Greece
Cultural reproduction is examined in this paper, not in the sense of replication, but as the creation of something new. Women's work in such cultural reproduction is explored through the experiences of Greek-identified women who live in Canada and Australia, or who have lived in these countries and now reside in Greece. These women are the daughters of immigrants who are now rearing the so-called third generation. Of particular interest is the wa…
Feminist Theorisations of Identity and Difference‐‐a case‐study related to gender education policy
The intention in this paper is to explore notions of identity and difference in relation to gender and ethnic minority status within the context of Australian schooling. This is discussed through an examination of education policies related to gender. It is argued that over a 20‐year period, these policies have reflected shifts in feminist understandings of processes of identification. Initially, such policies were founded on an understanding of …
Where Have All the Banners Gone?-teaching to a feminist politics within the academy
Re-envisioning multiculturalism within a feminist framework
(1993). Re‐envisioning multiculturalism within a feminist framework. Journal of Intercultural Studies: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 1-12
Being a 'wog' in Melbourne - young people's self-fashioning through discourses of racism
The Greek community in Melbourne, Australia, is large and has a long history in the city. It is diverse and associated with a range of cultural, social and political structures. It has strong transnational links and in many ways exemplifies ‘diasporic’ in contradistinction to ‘migrant’. This paper focuses on young people from this community, particularly those who attend schools established to promote Greek language and cultural maintenance. In t…
The (im)possibility of poststructuralist ethnography – researching identities in borrowed spaces
The notion of site is critical to ethnography and provides a sense of spatial stability – somewhere the researcher enters in order to research what is contained within. Using contemporary understandings of space, the author reflects on two studies to explore the (im)possibility of poststructuralist ethnography. The first study was undertaken in a ‘real’ school utilising a multi-method approach over a long period of time. The other was conducted i…
After hours’ schools as core to the spatial politics of ‘in‐betweenness’
In this article the authors draw on a larger study in which their overall concern is to illustrate how diasporic identifications develop through a range of scales related to self, family, community, nation and beyond. They consider the Melbourne Greek community as an exemplar of diasporic experience and use it as a case study for their investigation, which is aimed at exploring how transcultural literacies relate to spaces which complicate and en…
Home Space: Youth Identification in the Greek Diaspora
This article draws on a larger study on schooling and diaspora using the case of the Greek community of Melbourne, Australia to examine processes of identification of young people with access to minority cultures. The Melbourne Greek community is long-standing, diverse, and well-established. Because of this, the young people involved in this study provide insights into cultural processes not related in any direct sense to migration. In most cases…
Memories of Home: Family in the Diaspora
This article draws on long-term work on diasporic identification whereby the Greek community is used as an exemplar of diaspora. A particular focus of this work has been the maternal and the role women play in transferring cultural identity between nations and between generations. In this context, diasporic identification is understood in Hall's sense of invoking a past and evoking a future personal becoming. Qualitative research has been carried…
Single‐sex schooling: Is it simply a ‘class act’
The current debate about boys education risks taking us back decades in terms of understanding the significance of gender in relation to education. Of particular concern here is the tendency within such debates to rely on dichotomous understandings of gender which reinscribe essentialist understandings of both ‘girls’ and ‘boys’. In this way, the so‐called gender wars construct a climate whereby difference between the categories obfuscates differ…
A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer
There are two aims in writing this paper. Firstly, I reflect on several incidents that highlighted for me what it meant to be a widow in the eyes of others. The intention is to bring to light how becoming a widow reinforces how people define you relative to a man, more poignant because that man is absent. Providing personal insights sifted through theory is a form of feminist autoethnography that functions here as an intervention into more common…
Simpson, His Donkey and the Rest of Us—Public pedagogies of the value of belonging
At the heart of this paper is an exploration of belonging and how this is assumed to connect with a set of values represented as national. There is a particular interest in the relationship between these values and education. Because the significance of the learning that occurs through the public domain outside educational institutions such as schools is assumed, several cultural texts are examined in order to consider public pedagogies of Austra…
Feminist Theorisations of Identity and Difference‐‐a case‐study related to gender education policy
The intention in this paper is to explore notions of identity and difference in relation to gender and ethnic minority status within the context of Australian schooling. This is discussed through an examination of education policies related to gender. It is argued that over a 20‐year period, these policies have reflected shifts in feminist understandings of processes of identification. Initially, such policies were founded on an understanding of …
Re-envisioning multiculturalism within a feminist framework
(1993). Re‐envisioning multiculturalism within a feminist framework. Journal of Intercultural Studies: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 1-12
Re-envisioning multiculturalism within a feminist framework
(1993). Re‐envisioning multiculturalism within a feminist framework. Journal of Intercultural Studies: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 1-12
Feminist Theorisations of Identity and Difference‐‐a case‐study related to gender education policy
The intention in this paper is to explore notions of identity and difference in relation to gender and ethnic minority status within the context of Australian schooling. This is discussed through an examination of education policies related to gender. It is argued that over a 20‐year period, these policies have reflected shifts in feminist understandings of processes of identification. Initially, such policies were founded on an understanding of …
Where Have All the Banners Gone?-teaching to a feminist politics within the academy
The Role of the Maternal in Diasporic Cultural Reproduction - Australia, Canada and Greece
Cultural reproduction is examined in this paper, not in the sense of replication, but as the creation of something new. Women's work in such cultural reproduction is explored through the experiences of Greek-identified women who live in Canada and Australia, or who have lived in these countries and now reside in Greece. These women are the daughters of immigrants who are now rearing the so-called third generation. Of particular interest is the wa…
The Role of the Maternal in Diasporic Cultural Reproduction−Australia, Canada and Greece
Cultural reproduction is examined in this paper, not in the sense of replication, but as the creation of something new. Women's work in such cultural reproduction is explored through the experiences of Greek-identified women who live in Canada and Australia, or who have lived in these countries and now reside in Greece. These women are the daughters of immigrants who are now rearing the so-called third generation. Of particular interest is the wa…
The Role of the Maternal in Diasporic Cultural ReproductionAustralia, Canada and Greece
Cultural reproduction is examined in this paper, not in the sense of replication, but as the creation of something new. Women's work in such cultural reproduction is explored through the experiences of Greek-identified women who live in Canada and Australia, or who have lived in these countries and now reside in Greece. These women are the daughters of immigrants who are now rearing the so-called third generation. Of particular interest is the wa…
Single‐sex schooling: Is it simply a ‘class act’
The current debate about boys education risks taking us back decades in terms of understanding the significance of gender in relation to education. Of particular concern here is the tendency within such debates to rely on dichotomous understandings of gender which reinscribe essentialist understandings of both ‘girls’ and ‘boys’. In this way, the so‐called gender wars construct a climate whereby difference between the categories obfuscates differ…
Strategic encounters: Choosing school subcultures that facilitate imagined futures
In the Australian state of Victoria, students from elite independent and Catholic schools dominate entry into elite universities. Nonetheless, there are a small number of schools within the government sector whose students succeed in these terms. Such schools are considered highly academic and entry is very difficult. This paper is based on initial findings from an ethnographic study of one such school. Interview material is used to explore how s…
The (im)possibility of poststructuralist ethnography – researching identities in borrowed spaces
The notion of site is critical to ethnography and provides a sense of spatial stability – somewhere the researcher enters in order to research what is contained within. Using contemporary understandings of space, the author reflects on two studies to explore the (im)possibility of poststructuralist ethnography. The first study was undertaken in a ‘real’ school utilising a multi-method approach over a long period of time. The other was conducted i…
After hours’ schools as core to the spatial politics of ‘in‐betweenness’
In this article the authors draw on a larger study in which their overall concern is to illustrate how diasporic identifications develop through a range of scales related to self, family, community, nation and beyond. They consider the Melbourne Greek community as an exemplar of diasporic experience and use it as a case study for their investigation, which is aimed at exploring how transcultural literacies relate to spaces which complicate and en…
Being a 'wog' in Melbourne - young people's self-fashioning through discourses of racism
The Greek community in Melbourne, Australia, is large and has a long history in the city. It is diverse and associated with a range of cultural, social and political structures. It has strong transnational links and in many ways exemplifies ‘diasporic’ in contradistinction to ‘migrant’. This paper focuses on young people from this community, particularly those who attend schools established to promote Greek language and cultural maintenance. In t…
Home Space: Youth Identification in the Greek Diaspora
This article draws on a larger study on schooling and diaspora using the case of the Greek community of Melbourne, Australia to examine processes of identification of young people with access to minority cultures. The Melbourne Greek community is long-standing, diverse, and well-established. Because of this, the young people involved in this study provide insights into cultural processes not related in any direct sense to migration. In most cases…
Simpson, His Donkey and the Rest of Us—Public pedagogies of the value of belonging
At the heart of this paper is an exploration of belonging and how this is assumed to connect with a set of values represented as national. There is a particular interest in the relationship between these values and education. Because the significance of the learning that occurs through the public domain outside educational institutions such as schools is assumed, several cultural texts are examined in order to consider public pedagogies of Austra…
Memories of Home: Family in the Diaspora
This article draws on long-term work on diasporic identification whereby the Greek community is used as an exemplar of diaspora. A particular focus of this work has been the maternal and the role women play in transferring cultural identity between nations and between generations. In this context, diasporic identification is understood in Hall's sense of invoking a past and evoking a future personal becoming. Qualitative research has been carried…
Researching school choice in regional Australia: What can this tell us about the ethnographic imaginary
This is an exploration of methodological debates related to ethnographic research. Reflection on conducting research on school choice in an Australian regional centre is the beginning point for a discussion of what Appadurai describes as a dialectical relationship between the neighbourhood and its capacity to exist and reshape itself in relation to outside forces. The place of the researcher is considered in relation to a regional context and the…
A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer
There are two aims in writing this paper. Firstly, I reflect on several incidents that highlighted for me what it meant to be a widow in the eyes of others. The intention is to bring to light how becoming a widow reinforces how people define you relative to a man, more poignant because that man is absent. Providing personal insights sifted through theory is a form of feminist autoethnography that functions here as an intervention into more common…
Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (5 works)