CONFERENCE

DPR7: Cultures in Resistance

The 7th Conference of the Discourse, Power, Resistance Series

18– 20 March 2008
Manchester Metropolitan University , UK

 

ABSTRACTS

Jeff Adams Department of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
The pedagogy of the image text: Nakazawa, Sebald and Spiegelman recount social traumas

Barbara Adkins and Malcolm Pumpa School of Humanities and Human Services, QUT, Queensland, Australia
Aboriginal memory and digital memory in the field of virtual cultural heritage

Patrick Ainley 
Education still make you fick under Gordon Brown, Innit?

Cristina  Aliagas Marin Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Exploring adolescents’ resistance to academic text: a case study with a ‘struggling reader’ in Catalan secondary education

Ansgar Allen University of Sheffield, UK
Failed resistance in assessment research: Should we review our target?

Ansgar Allen et al University of Sheffield, UK
Resisting the Unethical in Formalised Ethics

Elizabeth Atkinson University of Sunderland, UK
David Nixon University of Exeter, UK
Sue East No Outsiders Project teacher-researcher
Symposium
No Outsiders? Turning the tide of discourse and resistance around sexualities equality in education

James Avis SEPD, University of Huddersfield, UK
Beyond Cultures of Resistance: the re-turn to class, economism, individualisation and Post Compulsory Education and Training

William Avis Sheffield University, UK
Sixty Years of Post-Coloniality: the Particularity of the Assamese Experience

Andrew Azzopardi Youth and Community Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Malta
Positioning narrative in our research agenda – reading stories of and on inclusion: folly in the methods

Andrew Barbour University of Huddersfield, UK
Subdued voices and maintaining identity: exploring priorities and cultural resistances in post-compulsory education

Amy Barksdale Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Do-It-Yourself Resistance: Zines as a Form of Communication, Creativity, and Empowerment

Janet Batsleer Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Informal learning at an edge: Whose shame? Whose pride? - The cultural politics of emotion in two arts-based initiatives in marginalised communities

Britta Baumgarten Centre for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen
“It’s not just about unemployment, it’s about social justice!” - Communicative strategies of the marginalised

Eva  Bendix Petersen  Monash University, Australia
Resisting neoliberalisation in the Academy: possibilities and strategies

Lindy-Ann  Blaize and Wanda Chesney  University of Sheffield, UK
Liming as Cultural Resistance

Matthew Bowen Henderson Hospital therapeutic community, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Power, Dialogue and Play: Relationship and good practice among clinical staff and residents in an NHS democratic therapeutic community

Laurette Bristol School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK
‘Oh my God…. I’m Black!!!!’

Tony Brown Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Dennis Atkinson  Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Conceptualising improvement in curriculum reform: against consensus

Shelley D. Buckingham and Charles F. Webber Calgary Board of Education and Graduate Division of Educational Research, University of Calgary, Canada
Perceptions of Participants after a High School World Religions Class

Jenni Carr, Liz Whitelegg, Richard Holliman, Eileen Scanlon and Barbara Hodgson Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology, The Open University, UK
The (In)visible Witnesses Project: Working with children and young people to explore gendered discourses of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)

Namita Chakrabarty University of East London, UK
Apocalyptic Mourning: Violence and unrequited desire: From The Aspern Papers to Mohammad Sidique Khan’s suicide bomber video

Laiz Chen University of Nottingham, UK
Clive Belgeonne Development Education Project, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Education for community cohesion: lowest common denominator or daring to be different?

Kelly Clark-Keefe Appalachian State University, USA
Between Antagonism and Surrender: Using Art to Dwell More Resolutely in Irresolution

Craig Collinson and Claire Penketh Teaching and Learning Development Unit, Edge Hill University, UK
‘Sit in the corner and don’t eat the crayons’: Dyslexic postgraduates and the dominant ‘lexic’ discourse

John Connell Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Workshop
“Blip Blop, the way forward!”: Cultural Resistance through Dance in Education

John  Connell Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Motivating young people to learn, re-engaging the disengaged and promoting inclusion: the role of Dance in education

Davey Curnow-Garland Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK
Online Resistance: an examination of how Embodied Health Movements are using the internet for campaign purposes, taking Gulf War Syndrome victims as a case study

Jan De Vos Centre for Ethics and Value Inquiry, Dept. of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, University of Ghent
The Return of the Real Man. Resisting Academisation?

Mark Duguid and Charlie Hackett Grays School of Art, UK
Round AB Out, A Queer Visual Arts Narrative

Linda Dunne, Gillian Goddard and Clare Woolhouse Edge Hill University, UK
Resisting the utilitarian utopia: teaching assistants’ experiences of doing a Foundation Degree

Linda Eastwood and Chris Ormondroyd University of Huddersfield, UK
Big Creativity: Fear and Loathing of a Pedagogy of Possibility

Mary Evans University of Kent, UK
Silence as Dissent: Women's Disengagement with the Culture of Knowledge

Naomi Folb Goldsmith, University of London, UK
Reading Dysographies: Dyslexia, Identity and Representation

Joan Forbes University of Aberdeen, UK
Gaby Weiner University of Edinburgh, UK
Scottish Independent Schools’ Website Texts – Uncovering Discourses and Resistances

Seb Franklin University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
“We need Radical Gameplay, not Radical Graphics.” Rules, Code and the Constitution of a minor gaming

Rosalyn George Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Urban Girls ‘Race’ and Schooling: Changing Schools, Changing Friends and Shifting Priorities

Dan  Goodley Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Deleuze-discourse-power-resistance? Rooting out cultures of resistance

Shaun Grech Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
600 million reasons for being invisible: Disability, Development, and Poverty - Critical Reflections

Ben Halligan School of Media, Music and Performance, University of Salford, UK
The Quality of Reason: the Neo-Liberal Bodies of Anti-Bush documentaries

Miles Henderson Smith 
Ideology Boxes

Peter Hick Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Towards a critical psychology for inclusive education: reframing the agenda?

Emilse Hidalgo Department of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies and Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham, UK
Hallucinating the resistance: new paths, social groups and cultural formations in Argentina after the 2001 default crisis

Christiane Hiley School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
DRP : Disreplacements : Versetzungen

Christiane Hiley School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
POSTER PRESENTATION
Extralessness:

Kate Hoskins Kings College, London, UK
Winners or losers? The Price of Success for Senior Working Class Female Academics: Sowing the seeds of success

Marie Huxtable Senior Educational Psychologist, Bath and North East Somerset
Responding To Government Policy On Gifted And Talented Education Through Cultures In Resistance

Wendy Hyde Institute of Education, London University, UK
A Stitch in Time: Gender Issues Explored Through Contemporary Textiles Practice and in a Sixth Form College

Susan Jones and Christine Hall University of Nottingham, UK
Creative Partners: the aesthetic voice and democratic schooling

Lori Kent Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA
Emerging Resistance: New Orleans Psychogeography as constructed through Memory-based Visual Arts

Kelone Khudu-Petersen University of Botswana
Introducing Intercultural Arts Education in Botswana: Making Links between School and Ethnic Minority learners

Katla  Kjartansdóttir University of Edinburgh, UK
Cultures in Resistance of what?

Jette Kofoed Department of Educational Psychology, DPU, Aarhus University, Denmark - Research project eXbus: Exploring Bullying in Schools
Vital (non)virtuality: Circulation of pain in virtual and non-virtual contexts of bullying

Jo Krøjer Department of Psychology and Educational Studies Roskilde University, Denmark
Counter Strike – collective means to counter neoliberal regulation

Manasi Kumar University College, London, UK
Trauma and its Social Trajectories: A case of post-earthquake-and-riots Gujarat (India)

Laura Landon Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Civil Enculturation and the Discursive Subjectivities of Secondary EAL Students

Jennifer Lavia and Pat Sikes University of Sheffield, UK
‘What part of me do I leave out?’: Engaging Students in Discourse Around Decolonizing Methodologies

Carole Leathwood London Metropolitan University, UK
Valerie Hey University of Sussex, UK
Resisting Hyper-rationality: Gender/ed Discourses and Emotional Sub-texts in UK Higher Education

Sechaba Mahlomaholo Xolile Xuma Central University of Technology, Free State, South Africa
Angelina Manapo Mahlomaholo Petunia High School, Free State, Department of Education, South Africa
Commercialising South African Higher Education: Reflections on the impact on Curriculum and Providers

Sechaba Mahlomaholo Centre for Curriculum Development - Central University of Technology, South Africa
Palesa Bungane North West Province of South Africa
Interrogating Curriculum Transformation(s) of Further Education and Training (FET) sector in the Fee State Province of South Africa

Vera Marten Department of Psychology and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Boundaries between social commentary and Islamophobia

Lisa A. Mazzei Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Straining Notions of Voice

Amir Mokhtarzadeh Educational and Social research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
You can not say everything and what you can say is not enough!

Andrew Morrison 
'I can’t see me doing any more education': Class, Individualization and Youth Educational and Occupational Decision-Making

Ilana Mountian, Rebecca Lawthom, Judith Sixsmith, Nathan Whittle Research Institute for Health and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Asylum Seekers and Refugees: pathologised presence and normalised absence in relation to health and health care experiences

Timothy Murphy National University of Ireland, Galway
The Learning Society and the Project of Educating: Challenges and Opportunities

Steven Naylor Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Methods of Exploring Creativity in Innovative School Settings

Yolanda Nieves Wright College in Chicago and National-Louis University, Chicago, USA
Brown Girls Singing: The Struggle for Identity of Second Generation Puerto Rican Women Revealed as an Auto-ethnographic Counter-Story Performance

Kevin Orr University of Huddersfield, UK
Memory, Knowledge and Resistance: the impact of the Algerian War on French thought

Nick Owen University of Nottingham, UK
Ken Jones University of Keele, UK
That’s Entertainment? - how teachers represent their work with CP artists

Marek  Palasinski University of Lancaster, UK
"Were you offended? – More than offended, I think I was very amused…" 2007 Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty and her management of racism denial in the Sky News interview

Ryan C. Parrey University of Illinois-Chicago
Resistance, Resilience, and Disability: The Paradox of Culture And An Ethics of Hospitality

Claire Penketh Teaching and Learning Development Unit, Edge Hill University, UK
‘I’ve got the imagination, but I’m not that good at drawing…’

Dick Pitt Sheffield Hallam University
The natural and un-natural evolution of Culture

John Preston Institute of Education, London
Eurocentric and Afrofuturist ‘faction’ on the nuclear apocalyptic

Sabi Redwood Centre for Qualitative Research, Bournemouth University, UK
Practitioner enquiry, ethics and the postmodern detective

Catherine Rutherford Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Women Home Returners: An account of work in progress

Christina Schwabenland London Metropolitan University, UK
The relevance of metaphorical thinking for ‘managing’ diversity

Robin  Simmons and Ron Thompson School of Education & Professional Development, University of Huddersfield, UK
Creativity in further education: resistance or compliance?

Sandra Sinfield London Metropolitan University, UK
Tom Burns and  Kate Hoskins The Learning Development Unit & Learn Higher Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning, London Metropolitan University, UK
Debbie Holley and  Carl Smith Reusable Learning Object Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning (RLO-CETL), London Metropolitan University, UK
Interactive symposium
'The contested terrain of notemaking: the development of a web and mobile based tool enabling students to gain their own voice through recontextualising their notes and ideas.'

Bridget Somekh Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Speculative Knowledge: a playful trope in the armoury of qualitative researchers

Eleni Stamou Institute of Education, London, UK and Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK
Youth identifications and the quest for time control: struggles and resistances

Christa Amhøj, Helle Bjerg, Dorthe Staunæs, Katia Dupret Søndergaard Department of Educational Psychology - DPU/University of Århus, Denmark
Symposium – Chair: Dorthe Staunæs
Transforming resistance into power – Different analytical and empirical reflections on resistance in lived life in organisational settings

Ian Stronach Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Social ‘docility’: theory and practice

Martin Suter University of Huddersfield, UK
Constructing the reflective practitioner

Dorte Marie Søndergaard Department of Educational Psychology, DPU, Aarhus University, Denmark - Research project eXbus: Exploring Bullying in Schools
Computer games and their material-discursive enactments of subjectivities and agency among children in bullying contexts

Maddalena Taras University of Sunderland, UK
Resisting resistance and maintaining the status quo: the example of student self-assessment

Bill Taylor Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Dean Garratt Liverpool John Moores University, UK
The professionalisation of sports coaching: relations of power, resistance and compliance

Alex Timewell Manchester College of Art and Technology / Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
The tool is not the object: exploring activity theory through the application of music technology in a further education setting

Lee James Tipton Lancaster University
Resisting becoming a Resident: Gates, Ceremonies and Signs encountered on the road to Docility

Andy Pickard, Una Hanley, Yvonne Hill, Tony Mulligan, Pete Phethean, John Powell Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Symposium
De-stabilising current views of Teacher Development: Re-framing progress

Jonathan Tummons Lancaster University, UK
Audit cultures in UK higher education: keep things simple, keep things safe?

Kerry Vincent School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK
‘Slappers like you don’t’ belong in this school’: teenage pregnancy, motherhood and education

Logaj Vinko Logaj Sola za ravnatelje, Slovenia
Anita Trnavcevic Faculty of Management Koper, Slovenia
Secondary schools in Slovenia in the 'networkingomania'

Nicky Watts University of Sheffield, UK
Quantitative vessels

Michael Watts Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, UK
Vulpine psychology and viniculture: the fox, the grapes and adaptive preferences in higher education

Jack Whitehead Department of Education, University of Bath, UK
How are living educational theories being produced and legitimated with cultural diversity from the arts, philosophy, psychology, sociology, education and religion?

Terry Wrigley University of Edinburgh, UK
Pedagogies of resistance

Qi  Wu and Laurette Bristol School of Education, University of Sheffield
Leaving Home to Study: Distance, Criticality and Resistance

Xolile Lukas Xuma Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa and Legal Counsel of the Central University of Technology
A Critical Analysis of Participatory Democracy in Higher Education (HE) Sector: The Case of (HE) Institutions in the Free State Province of South Africa

Anna Zebialowicz Lancaster University, UK
Philosophical-literary discourse on an absent God in Par Lagerkvist’s tetralogy