Maureen Purcell
Biographic Data
| ID | 96151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maureen Purcell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maureen |
| FAMILY NAME | Purcell |
| SIGNATURE | PURCELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7441-4420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
En/countering white affect
This article explores the normative power of whiteness in education and how it can be countered. Bringing concepts from affect theory and critical studies of whiteness to bear, and working data gathered from white majority and non-white minority students in museum and classroom settings, we show how affect plays into whiteness as a structural formation. Analyses indicate that affect performs a foundational role in whiteness through arrangements w…
Towards unsettling the racial nation-state
As the adoption of the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (otherwise known as the White Australia policy) reveals, whiteness has always been fundamental to the Australian nation-state.White sovereignty is constitutive of the Australian nation, making it a racial state.But the devastating impact of whiteness on those deemed 'not-white' remains largely unacknowledged.Drawing on framing of affective economies and an empirical study tracing how seconda…
Affective enactments
This paper concerns the pedagogical work affect does in an Australian Year 11 literature classroom. Thinking with Ahmed’s framing of affect from the viewpoint of cultural politics, I consider how affect aligns some bodies within particular social groups and situates some outside. Three key moments of affective charge are drawn from observations: students’ written responses, group discussions, and interviews. Analysing these moments from the persp…
Cosmopolitanism as transnational literacy
Recent rapid increase in the number of Australians of Asian backgrounds has significantly altered the demographic mosaic in schools. This has major ramifications for Australian classrooms with regards to the transnational exchanges now ubiquitous. In response, this paper proposes a view of cosmopolitanism as “transnational literacy” as enunciated by Spivak. It draws on a pedagogical intervention that explored the emerging spaces of the Australian…
The ligamentum teres femoris in orangutans
OBJECTIVES: It is widely viewed that orangutans lack a ligamentum teres femoris (LTF) inserting on the femoral head because orangutans lack a distinct fovea capitis. Orangutans employ acrobatic quadrumanous clambering that requires a high level of hip joint mobility, and the absence of an LTF is believed to be an adaptation to increase hip mobility. However, there are conflicting reports in the literature about whether there may be a different LT…
The Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation on Australian Broadcasting Commission (17 August 1978)
Bishop Murray and the Patrician Brothers 1
Affective enactments
This paper concerns the pedagogical work affect does in an Australian Year 11 literature classroom. Thinking with Ahmed’s framing of affect from the viewpoint of cultural politics, I consider how affect aligns some bodies within particular social groups and situates some outside. Three key moments of affective charge are drawn from observations: students’ written responses, group discussions, and interviews. Analysing these moments from the persp…
Towards unsettling the racial nation-state
As the adoption of the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (otherwise known as the White Australia policy) reveals, whiteness has always been fundamental to the Australian nation-state.White sovereignty is constitutive of the Australian nation, making it a racial state.But the devastating impact of whiteness on those deemed 'not-white' remains largely unacknowledged.Drawing on framing of affective economies and an empirical study tracing how seconda…
Bishop Murray and the Patrician Brothers 1
The Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation on Australian Broadcasting Commission (17 August 1978)
The ligamentum teres femoris in orangutans
OBJECTIVES: It is widely viewed that orangutans lack a ligamentum teres femoris (LTF) inserting on the femoral head because orangutans lack a distinct fovea capitis. Orangutans employ acrobatic quadrumanous clambering that requires a high level of hip joint mobility, and the absence of an LTF is believed to be an adaptation to increase hip mobility. However, there are conflicting reports in the literature about whether there may be a different LT…
Cosmopolitanism as transnational literacy
Recent rapid increase in the number of Australians of Asian backgrounds has significantly altered the demographic mosaic in schools. This has major ramifications for Australian classrooms with regards to the transnational exchanges now ubiquitous. In response, this paper proposes a view of cosmopolitanism as “transnational literacy” as enunciated by Spivak. It draws on a pedagogical intervention that explored the emerging spaces of the Australian…
Affective enactments
This paper concerns the pedagogical work affect does in an Australian Year 11 literature classroom. Thinking with Ahmed’s framing of affect from the viewpoint of cultural politics, I consider how affect aligns some bodies within particular social groups and situates some outside. Three key moments of affective charge are drawn from observations: students’ written responses, group discussions, and interviews. Analysing these moments from the persp…
Towards unsettling the racial nation-state
As the adoption of the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (otherwise known as the White Australia policy) reveals, whiteness has always been fundamental to the Australian nation-state.White sovereignty is constitutive of the Australian nation, making it a racial state.But the devastating impact of whiteness on those deemed 'not-white' remains largely unacknowledged.Drawing on framing of affective economies and an empirical study tracing how seconda…
En/countering white affect
This article explores the normative power of whiteness in education and how it can be countered. Bringing concepts from affect theory and critical studies of whiteness to bear, and working data gathered from white majority and non-white minority students in museum and classroom settings, we show how affect plays into whiteness as a structural formation. Analyses indicate that affect performs a foundational role in whiteness through arrangements w…
Pedagogy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art Education and Development (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (2 works)