Surviving the Years of Plague

Two Feminist Academics’ Interrupted Reading of Raewyn Connell’s The Good University

Bibliographic Data

ID21242263
AuthorsA Bosanquet (University of Auckland), BM Grant (University of Auckland), S Sturm (University of Auckland)
Year2023
Volume11
Issue2
Pages22
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueKnowledge Cultures (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2327-5731 • E-ISSN: 2375-6527
PublisherAddleton Academic Publishers (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.22381/kc11220232
OpenAlexW4385656682
LanguageEN
References cited7

This epistolary article presents a slow reading of Raewyn Connell’s The Good University by two feminist scholars. Our conversation brings a unique perspective to Connell’s book, capturing our lived experience of plagues, or persistent afflictions causing worry and distress, within and beyond the university. We started reading and writing together in late 2019, a time when work-life for one of us was marred by radical university restructuring and out-of-control bushfires. Our intermittent conversation continued through the new plague that arrived in early 2020 to complicate our civic, work and home lives and dramatically (further) reduce our capacity for scholarly work. Over those months that became years, we found that living with these plagues cast the possibility of the good university into profound uncertainty. The Good University became a point of return – a companion text – for two feminist academics during plague times. What follows is an edited version of the conversation that proceeded in its own time and that shows, on the ground, ‘what [some] universities actually do and why it’s time for radical change,’ as Connell’s subtitle has it

Ancient history · Political science · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US

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