1st Edition

Identity Construction as a Spatiotemporal Phenomenon within Doctoral Students' Intellectual and Academic Identities Contradictions, Contestations and Convergences

By Rudo F. Hwami Copyright 2024
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

Investigating the interplay between space, time and identity construction, this book brings to focus how spatiality and temporality have been largely overlooked in the study and theorisation of identity construction. Offering Gloria Anzaldúa concept of ‘conocimento’ as a theoretical tool for analysing identity construction, the book investigates how doctoral students hold varying assumptions... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction: Fringe Identities: Hiding the Ugly, Unmasking the Hidden

Chapter 2:  Space, Time and Conocimiento

Chapter 3: Crisis as a Tool of Intellectual Awareness

Chapter 4: Sandwiched Between Identities

Chapter 5: Ontological Terror: The Struggle for Intellectual Authenticity

Chapter 6: Re-envisioning Intellectual Identity

Chapter 7: Constructing Academic Non-Belonging as an Expression of Intellectual Identity

Chapter 8: Multiplicity and Interconnectedness of Identity

Chapter 9: Identity borders as thresholds

Chapter 10: Conclusion: An Ode to the Fringe

Biography

Rudo F. Hwami is Postdoctoral Fellow in Higher Education Studies, Center for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa.