Gender, disembodiment and vocation: exploring the unmentionables of British academic life
Anthropologists have developed an important corpus of work on embodiment and social agency. But what of the academic bodies involved in the production and reproduction of these ideas? Is an institutional habitus of scholarly disembodiment one consequence of contemporary academic practice? Drawing on...
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| author | Mills, D Berg, M |
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| description | Anthropologists have developed an important corpus of work on embodiment and social agency. But what of the academic bodies involved in the production and reproduction of these ideas? Is an institutional habitus of scholarly disembodiment one consequence of contemporary academic practice? Drawing on research and our own experiences, we describe what we see as the 'disembodied vocationalism' fostered by departmental and institutional cultures. Using the case of social anthropology we explore the gendered expectations and silences that continue to exist within British universities. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:65d51fa4-6a58-4b76-9cc8-db5f59c868ab2022-03-26T18:28:02ZGender, disembodiment and vocation: exploring the unmentionables of British academic lifeJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:65d51fa4-6a58-4b76-9cc8-db5f59c868abAnthropologyEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetSAGE Publications2010Mills, DBerg, MAnthropologists have developed an important corpus of work on embodiment and social agency. But what of the academic bodies involved in the production and reproduction of these ideas? Is an institutional habitus of scholarly disembodiment one consequence of contemporary academic practice? Drawing on research and our own experiences, we describe what we see as the 'disembodied vocationalism' fostered by departmental and institutional cultures. Using the case of social anthropology we explore the gendered expectations and silences that continue to exist within British universities. |
| spellingShingle | Anthropology Mills, D Berg, M Gender, disembodiment and vocation: exploring the unmentionables of British academic life |
| title | Gender, disembodiment and vocation: exploring the unmentionables of British academic life |
| title_full | Gender, disembodiment and vocation: exploring the unmentionables of British academic life |
| title_fullStr | Gender, disembodiment and vocation: exploring the unmentionables of British academic life |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender, disembodiment and vocation: exploring the unmentionables of British academic life |
| title_short | Gender, disembodiment and vocation: exploring the unmentionables of British academic life |
| title_sort | gender disembodiment and vocation exploring the unmentionables of british academic life |
| topic | Anthropology |
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