Taking Things Personally, and Publicising the Private
Encountering Erasure on the Frontlines of Academia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3609766 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Neelika Jayawardane (African Studies Centre, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-51 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02533950708628742 |
| OpenAlex | W1968559844 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
What impact does being on the receiving end of ‘culturally insensitive’ questions have on those occupying the ‘Other’ position in academia? Are these questions a means of interrogating one's legitimacy in a given location, a way to dislocate an academic ‘Other’ from feeling a sense of belonging within a privileged location? And what does the subsequent behaviour of one's colleagues tell one about an encounter intended to police and erase an academic nomad's legitimacy to contested landscapes? As an ‘ex-colonial’ scholar, I have had to negotiate through many encounters that are displacing on both a personal and professional level: the more ‘mobile’ I've become, the more debilitating (and more frequent) the encounters I've experienced. Official, well-scripted performances or texts produced by academics are often clever about covering obvious traces of political problems and ‘isms’; anecdotal evidence comes in to capture remarks and performances in less-guarded moments, where political and ideological battles are best fought. ‘Telling the story’ publicises the private encounter. But describing and advertising the existence of concealed structures underscores the difficulty of writing about xenophobia, racism, gender policing, or acts of academic territoriality, since one encounters further attempts to censor one's writing: unequal power structures are maintained – not by some nebulous entity – but by our colleagues who are deeply invested in maintaining the same conditions
Feeling · Ideology · Legitimacy · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Xenophobia · Academic Freedom and Politics · Critical Race Theory in Education · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2017 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |