1st Edition

Gender, Definitional Politics and 'Live' Knowledge Production Contesting Concepts at Conferences

By Emily F. Henderson Copyright 2020
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

Waking up to the reactivity of concepts, to their myriad possibilities for signification, to the range and strength of affective responses they provoke, can happen at any time, in any place. Conceptual contestations shake up the comfortably consolidated foundations of sociological knowledge production, but they also have consequences for the ways in which lives are understood, researched and... Read more

Chapter 1: Gender, definitional politics and ‘live’ knowledge production



Chapter 2: Foregrounding conferences as sites of ‘live’ knowledge production



Chapter 3: Theorising concepts and conceptual performativity



Chapter 4: Citationality, elsewhereness and the definitional politics of intersectionality



Chapter 5: Bodies in spaces at conferences – the citationality of materiality



Chapter 6: Eventful performatives in ‘live’ knowledge production



Chapter 7: Contesting concepts at conferences



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Biography

Emily F. Henderson is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Education Studies, University of Warwick.