Maria Tamboukou
Maria Tamboukou is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of East London, UK. She is also Affiliated Professor in Gender Studies at Linnaeus University Sweden and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University, Australia. Her research activity develops in the areas of philosophies and epistemologies in the social sciences, feminist theories, narrative analytics and archival research. She is the author of 7 books and more than 70 journal articles.
Biography
Maria Tamboukou (BA, MA, PhD) is Professor of Feminist Studies at the School of Social Sciences, University of East London, UK. She has held visiting research positions in a number of institutions and is currently Affiliated Professor in Gender Studies at Linnaeus University Sweden and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University, Australia. Maria got her PhD in Sociology from King's College, University of London in 1999. Her research activity develops in the areas of philosophies and epistemologies in the social sciences, feminist theories, narrative analytics and archival research. She is the author of 7 monographs, 2 co-authored books, 3 co-edited volumes on research methods and more than 70 articles and book chapters. Writing histories of the present is the central focus of her work, currently configured as an assemblage of feminist genealogies.Education
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PhD, King's College London, 1999
MA, King's College London, 1992
BA (Hons) National University of Athens
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Philosophies and Epistemologies in the Social Sciences
Feminist Theories
Narrative Analysis
Archival Research
History of Women's Education
Women's Labour Histories
Foucaulsian and Deleuzian analytics
Personal Interests
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literature, cinema, theatre, music, art, swimming
Websites
Books
Articles
Education as action/the adventure of education: thinking with Arendt and Whitehe
Published: Feb 10, 2016 by Journal of Educational Administration and History
Authors: Tamboukou
Taking action, process, imagination and adventure as my central ideas, in this paper, I make connections between Arendt and Whitehead in an attempt to think about education within and beyond ‘dark times’.
The Work of Memory: embodiment, materiality and home in Jeanne Bouvier's autobio
Published: May 12, 2015 by Women's History Review
Authors: Maria Tamboukou
In this paper I follow trails in the memory of work by reading the books and papers of Jeanne Bouvier, a French seamstress, ardent trade-unionist and passionate writer, who left a rich body of labour literature including four published historical studies, as well as the memoirs of her life, work and struggles.
Narrative Personae and Visual Signs: Reading Leonard's Intimate Photo Memoir
Published: Dec 13, 2014 by a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
Authors: Maria Tamboukou
In this article, the author looks at Joanne Leonard’s Being in Pictures and engages in a critical dialogue with the assemblage of visual and textual narratives that comprise her intimate photo memoir.
The autobiographical you: letters in the gendered politics of the labour movemen
Published: Sep 10, 2014 by Journal of Gender Studies
Authors: Maria Tamboukou
In this article, I consider the importance of epistolary narratives in the interface of autobiography and politics. In doing this, I read the letters of Fannia Mary Cohn, a Jewish immigrant worker, trade union activist and ardent labour organizer in the garment industry in the USA in the first half of the twentieth century.
‘Not everything that the bourgeois world created is bad’: aesthetics and politic
Published: Apr 04, 2014 by Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
Authors: Maria Tamboukou
In this paper, I look into the papers of Fannia Cohn, an immigrant labour organizer, who served the Education Department of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) between 1918 and 1962 and became one of its few women vice-presidents. As an internationally recognized figure in the history of workers' education
Educating the seamstress: studying and writing the memory of work
Published: Jul 01, 2013 by History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society
Authors: Maria Tamboukou
In this paper I look at the history of women workers' education through the life history of Rose Pesotta, an anarchist labour organizer.
Farewell to the Self: Between the Letter and the Self-Portrait
Published: Jun 25, 2013 by Life Writing
Authors: Maria Tamboukou
In this paper I consider interfaces between visual and textual representations of the female self in art. I am looking in particular at Gwen John's self-portraits and the letters revolving around them.
Truth telling in Foucault and Arendt
Published: Jul 10, 2012 by Journal of Education Policy
Authors: Maria Tamboukou
In this paper, I consider the problem of truth telling through the notion of parrhesia as developed and explicated in Foucault’s last lectures at the College de France (1982–1983 and 1983–1984) and the figure of the pariah that runs throughout Arendt’s work.
Heterotopic and holey spaces as tents for the nomad
Published: Oct 19, 2011 by Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography
Authors: Maria Tamboukou
In this article I look into the letters and paintings of the expatriate Welsh artist Gwen John, tracing her spatial practices in the urban spaces of modernity. John's fluid spatiality is thus conceived as an event that interrogates static conceptualizations of spaces and identities and foregrounds difference, movement and forces of desire as constitutive of the real.
Charting cartographies of resistance
Published: Nov 24, 2010 by Gender and Education
Authors: Maria Tamboukou
In this paper I chart lines of flight in women artist’s narratives. In focusing on the complex interrelations between the social milieus of education and art, what I suggest is that they should be analysed as an assemblage where power relations and forces of desire are constantly at play in creating conditions of possibility for women to resist, imagine themselves becoming other and for new possibilities in their lives to be actualised.