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Themes

Themes

Register to attend this year’s conference.

Themes

 

Register to attend this year’s conference.

Globe of alternative words for the working class

Potential collaborators are invited to submit abstracts that address the main theme: Critical Constellations: ‘Working Class’ and/in Academia.

Possible themes for the contextualisation of activities and/or presentations:

  • Art, Activism and Class.
  • Intersectionality.
  • Class as an influence on pedagogy.
  • Pedagogies of the working class.
  • Autobiographical journeys beyond the divide.
  • Critical economics.
  • The University as a class barrier.
  • Environmentalism and the working class.
  • “Must we leave to achieve?”: Education, social mobility and the resituating of the working class.
  • The reification and commodification of the working class.
  • Performance, the Academy and working class.
  • A digital planet – barrier of enabler for working class engagement.
  • Being a working class student.
  • ‘Housework, children, jobs and cooking’: working class women on/in academia.
  • Class and migration.
  • Faith and class.
  • Imposter Syndrome and Jonah Complex: the challenges of coming to terms with being working class academics.