CONFERENCE
DPR8: Power and the Academy
The 8th Conference of the Discourse, Power, Resistance Series
6 – 8 April 2009
Manchester Metropolitan University , UK
ABSTRACTS
Jeff Adams Edge Hill University, UK
Creativity and the Artist-Learner
Ansgar Allen School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK
Foucauldian Peacekeeping: On the Dispersion of Power and the Futility of Change
Jamie Arrowsmith Education & Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
‘But whose future are we talking about?’: Conceptualising aspirations in one Widening Participation project
Nildo Avelino
Anarchism, Post-Anarchism, Proudhon, Foucault: government and power
James Avis Univesity of Huddersfield, UK
Further Education in England: the New Localism, Systems Theory and Governance
Sarah Aynsley CHEER, University of Sussex, UK
Barbara Crossouard CHEER, University of Sussex, UK
Making Choices
Andrew Barbour University of Huddersfield, UK
The negotiated classroom: compliance and performance(s).
Thomas Bürk Leibniz Institute for regional development and Structural Planning (IRS) and
Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
Teaching undergraduates under post-Bologna Conditions
Lea Caragata Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
In A Name: Benefactor Naming as a Reflection of the Erosion of Canadian Universities as Public Space
Anna Carlile Department of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Docile bodies or contested space? Political correctness, prejudice, and the crystallising of social inequity in permanent exclusion from school
Khatidja Chantler Manchester University, UK
Erica Burman Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Research and policy: a forced marriage?
Tat Heung Choi Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Kwok Chun Tang Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
An exploration of parental choice of secondary schools in Hong Kong
Ç Çoker Department of Psychology, Division of Social Psychology, İstanbul University, Turkey
G Tekdemir-Yurtdaş Department of Psychology, Division of Social Psychology, İstanbul University, Turkey
S Arkonaç Department of Psychology, Division of Social Psychology, İstanbul University, Turkey
Symbols Of State: Reading Of An Academic Placement
Ç Çoker Department of Psychology, Division of Social Psychology, İstanbul University, Turkey
G Tekdemir-Yurtdaş Department of Psychology, Division of Social Psychology, İstanbul University, Turkey
S Arkonaç Department of Psychology, Division of Social Psychology, İstanbul University, Turkey
Pleasing Both Sides in Rectorate Elections in Istanbul University
Mike Cole Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln, UK
Critical Race Theory: a Marxist critique
Alan Cottey School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of East Anglia
The Shadow of the Bomb: a study of degree-level nuclear physics
textbooks
Barbara Crossouard School of Education, University of Sussex, UK
Doctoral Assessment: the gendered dimensions of the viva
Caroline Davies Centre for Urban Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Rob Philburn University of Salford, UK
Sylvia Phillips Centre for Urban Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Rights, Rhetoric and Reality: Young people’s participation in the development of educational policy
Renée DePalma University of Sunderland
Elizabeth Atkinson
No Outsiders: Transforming understandings of gender in primary education
Indra Dewan
Race slash class: young mixed heritage students in an inner London school
Yvonne Downs University of Sheffield, UK
‘It’s a bit like giving birth’. Middle aged women graduates talk about their experience of higher education
Dean Garratt Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Linda Hammersley-Fletcher Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Academic identities in flux: ambivalent articulations in a post-1992 University
Ana Godoy Faculdade de Educação UNICAMP, Brasil
Controlling society, academy and environmental perspectives: captures and resistances
Morwenna Griffiths School of Education, University of Edinburgh, UK
Gale Macleod School of Education, University of Edinburgh, UK
Does current educational philosophy have any power in the world of policy?
Justine Grønbæk Pors Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Complicating critical research: How new strategies of government mess up distinctions between power and resistance
Miklós Hadas Centre for Gender and Culture, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Audit Culture and Scientific (Self)-Colonization: Dilemmas of a Supervisor
Philomena Harrison Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Salford, UK
The Positioning of Self in the Resistance to Change: Being Black, Woman and Teacher
Joshua Hatton Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK
Migration and refugee studies in British universities: the making of a policy relevant academic field.
Valerie Hey University of Sussex, UK
Deconstructing the Cinderella Complex : The field positioning of higher education studies, feminists and feminist theory in the Academy
Chris Hough University of Cumbria, UK
Every Child/Youth Matters - Idealism or ideology? Are the government’s social and welfare policies fit for purpose?
Wendy Hyde Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Møther: a resistance to the culturally imposed discourse of pregnancy -
Art practice as research
Paper and digital video
Jane Jackson Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Lots of cake and lashings of ginger beer: Resisting the Blytonization of PCET teacher education
Chris Langley Scientists for Global Responsibility, UK
Universities, the military and the UK's security needs
Anna Llewellyn Durham University, UK
Policy, Power and the Primary School
Edson Lopes Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Public Security in Brazil
Ruth McDonald National Primary Care Research and Development Centre
University of Manchester, UK
On being a grown up researcher - or the politics of evidence in an English health policy setting
Islay McEwan Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Bill Taylor Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Professional knowledge and shifting emplotments; a Bourdieusian analysis of practitioner discourse in elite sports medicine
Convenor: Heather Mendick London Metropolitan University, UK
Symposium
Encounters between cultural studies and education
Ken Montgomery University of Regina, Canada
Strategies for teaching about and through white supremacy
Sara Motta University of Nottingham, UK
Pathways to dialogue between academics and social movement in the construction of knowledge for social transformation and political change
Ilana Mountian Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Paul Duckett Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Questions around intersections between community and immigration
Suryia Nayak Salford University, UK
Morna Rivers Salford University, UK
Teaching To Transgress
Chris Ormondroyd University of Huddersfield, UK
Linda Eastwood University of Huddersfield, UK
Harvesting the Wilderness – A Trip on the Wild Side of Theory
Kevin Orr University of Huddersfield, UK
Autonomy and powerlessness: the gap between policy and practice in English Further Education colleges
Daniel O’Neill School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK
Reclining on the faculty couch: Positionality and the misplaced confessions of the new researcher
Cathie Pearce ESRI, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Residential Hopes: “Lived in” or “Locked in” imaginations?
An Piessens Educational Networking, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp
Do we really switch poles by networking? The micropolitics of ‘enacting’ networking
Nick Pilcher Napier University, UK
Scott Fernie Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
National Qualifications Frameworks: controlling the academy?
Heather Piper Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Debbie Cordingley
A consideration of the claimed ‘links’ between child and animal abuse
John Pryor University of Sussex, UK
Academic Community Policing: doing the peer review
Heather Ryan Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Canada
Distance education: the potential for indigenous students and students with special needs
Karem Said Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
The University as Knowledge Maker in a ‘Learning Region’: The case of The American University in Cairo
Jerome Satterthwaite Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Barack Obama’s Books
Maggi Savin-Baden Coventry University, UK
Liquid learning and liminal universities? Shifting Academic complicit-ness in the processes of disempowerment
John Schostak ESRI, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Jean-Luc Gaspard UFR Sciences Humaines, Université RENNES II, France
Bullying Spaces: The social and psychological impact on people in communities of the corporate power of institutions –experiences and approaches in France and the UK
Chris Sheehy School of Community Health Sciences and Social Care, University of Salford, UK
The Power of Positive Action: Pioneering a Model of Good Practice to confront the pernicious problem of racism and class discrimination in the academy
Pat Sikes University of Sheffield, UK
Jennifer Lavia University of Sheffield, UK
Beyond sand and sea: a struggle for recognition in the Academy
Mari Simola Department of Education, University of Helsinki, Finland
Stories of Hope and Discipline - Affects and Emotions in Discourses of Educational Development Work
Stijn Suijs Department of Educational Sciences, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Fighting the enemy within: The war on poverty in Flanders today
Maddalena Taras Univesity of Sunderland, UK
Metaphors of Education: power potentials and problems
Sylvia Tate Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Reading Power and the Academy
Alex Timewell Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Where is the love? - Employing strategies to disrupt progression; creating spaces to enjoy learning
Àngels Trias i Valls Institute of Contemporary European Studies, European Business School, Regent’s College, London, UK
Financial crisis, e-learning and the making of unconventional sites of knowledge: universities as 're-usable learning objects'
Rick Wallace Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK
Making Visible Power and Methodology: A Collaborative Praxis of Ethics, Peacebuilding and Discursive Representation
Nicky Watts University of Sheffield, UK
‘If they train everyone up to do these high power jobs, who’s going to do the crap jobs that we do now?’