https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:33521 European Journal of Cultural Studies'.]]> Wed 14 Nov 2018 14:00:25 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:51164 Wed 13 Mar 2024 08:02:41 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31566 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:45:03 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31609 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:58 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31612 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:58 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31611 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:57 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31610 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:57 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31666 How are you? I am totally stressed at the moment, to be honest. Work is piling up and I’m just drowning. I don’t know when I’m going to have time to start on that secrecy and silence book chapter – I’m so, so late with it now, and I feel really bad that I’m letting Roisin down, but I literally never have a second. I know, I know exactly what you mean. I mean, I had 115 e-mails yesterday and they all needed answering. I’m doing 16 hour days just trying to keep on top of it. I feel like I’m always late with everything, and my ›to do‹ list grows faster than I can cross things off it. It’s like one of those fungi in a horror movie that doubles in size every few hours! (Laughter) And I never ever have chance to do any of my own work. I’m sleeping really badly and it all just feels completely out of control...It’s the same for me. Reading? What that? Thinking? No chance! And you feel awful, don’t you. With me I feel like I’m constantly stealing time from the kids too – I’ll go off to check messages in the middle of a game of Monopoly or something. Sometimes I just feel like quitting. Yeah I know. It just gets worse. Still hoping to win the lottery, then?(laughter) But how are you? Do you really want to know?! (laughter) (Yeh) well, awful actually. I’m really fed up. I heard yesterday that my article for x journal was turned down. (Oh no!) You know, the one I worked on for ages and ages. I poured so much of myself into that piece (I know). And one of the referee’s comments was vile – it said something like ›my first year undergraduates have a better understanding of the field than this author does – why are they wasting all of our time‹. When I read it it was like a slap in the face, Ros. It was all I could do not to burst out crying in the postroom, but I had a lecture right afterwards so I somehow managed to pull myself together and go and do that. But last night, I just didn’t sleep (poor you) I just kept on going over and over with all these negative comments ringing round my head. And you know the worst thing is, they are right: I am useless (no you’re not), I’m a complete fraud, and I should have realised that I was going to be found out if I sent my work to a top journal like that. This is a transcript of a conversation I had with a female friend in the few days before (finally) beginning work on this chapter. Both speakers are white, both work in »old« (pre-1992) British Universities, and both are employed on »continuing« contracts – thus are already marked as »privileged« in multiple ways in the contemporary academy. Mine is easily recognizable as the voice which worries about how late this article is! Some readers may find this fragment of conversation rather odd, but I suspect for many more it will appear familiar and may strike deep chords of recognition. It speaks of many things: exhaustion, stress, overload, insomnia, anxiety, shame, aggression, hurt, guilt and feelings of out-of-placeness, fraudulence and fear of exposure within the contemporary academy. These feelings, these affective embodied experiences, occupy a strange position in relation to questions of secrecy and silence. They are at once ordinary and everyday, yet at the same time remain largely secret and silenced in the public spaces of the academy. They are spoken in a different, less privileged register; they are the stuff of the chat in the corridor, coffee break conversations and intimate exchanges between friends, but not, it would seem, the keynote speech or the journal publication or even the departmental meeting. For all the interest in reflexivity in recent decades, the experiences of academics have somehow largely escaped critical attention. It is as if the parameters for reflexivity are bounded by the individual study, leaving the institutional context in which academic knowledge is produced simply as a taken for granted backdrop.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:53 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31671 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:53 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31665 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:53 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31670 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:53 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31669 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:53 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31667 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:53 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31662 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:48 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31664 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:47 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31663 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:47 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31200 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:46 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31202 intimately entangled with attempts to recuperate this to (male-dominated) consumer capitalism. This makes this figure difficult to read, and helps to account for the familiar polarization between those feminists who appear hopeful and optimistic about the spaces that have opened up in recent years for female sexual self-expression and sexual pleasure in Western societies, and those who interpret the same phenomena as merely old sexual stereotypes wrapped in a new, glossy postfeminist guise. Contextualizing our argument in discussions about the 'mainstreaming of sex' (Attwood, 2009), we seek to develop notions of 'sexual subjectification' (Gill, 2003) and 'technologies of sexiness' (Radner, 1993, 1999) to explore the rise and proliferation of discourses of sexual entrepreneurship, and suggest a way of reading this that does not - or at least tries not to - fall back into the old binaries (e.g. either unproblematic liberation or wholesale recuperation).]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:45 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31183 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:42:57 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31177 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:42:56 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31180 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:42:56 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31184 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:42:56 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31185 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:42:56 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31179 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:42:55 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:51592 Fri 22 Sep 2023 13:41:03 AEST ]]>