VOLUME 4(1) • 2016
BORDER CROSSINGS: INTRODUCTION
Students at Western universities were traditionally “disproportionately male, from high-status social-economic backgrounds, members of majority ethnic and/or racial groups, and without disability” (Taylor & Beasley, 2005, p. 141). In that sense, more and more non-traditional students enter acade..
BUILDING MEETING GROUNDS
ABSTRACT. This article examines the issue of supervision across cultures, specifically Pacific postgraduates in Aotearoa/New Zealand, from the imperative of cultivating intersections, encounters and meetings, where not everything can be known in advance by either party. How to make things, which can..
“PAPATUANUKU/PAPA:” SOME THOUGHTS ON THE OPPOSITIONAL GROUNDS OF THE DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE
ABSTRACT. There are significant challenges that face Maori students and supervisors as a “doctoral team.” Perhaps the most fundamental of these is that there is a metaphysics at work in writing and talking that Maori are encouraged to speculate on and reclaim. One term for this metaphysics, “Papatua..
MOBILISING INDIGENOUS AND NON-WESTERN THEORETIC-LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE IN DOCTORAL EDUCATION
ABSTRACT Globalization has produced contradictory processes that promote the movement of people and ideas across geographical and epistemological boundaries yet continue to reinforce the dominance of White, Western knowledge production. Intended or not, globalization may yet turn out to be the sourc..
CRAFTING SPACES BETWEEN THE BINARY: RENEGADE LOCATIONS FOR THE RADICAL RE-VISIONING OF NON-TRADITIONAL GRADUATE ADVISING
ABSTRACT. At the dawn of the 21st century the revolutionary energies that once fueled the Civil Rights Movement have been usurped into a sanitized narrative of American exceptionalism undergirded by a static black white racial binary. This article explores the ways that these sanitized binaries curt..
SCHOLARLY REARING IN THREE ACTS: BLACK WOMEN’S TESTIMONIAL SCHOLARSHIP AND THE CULTIVATION OF RADICAL BLACK FEMALE INTER-SUBJECTIVITY
ABSTRACT: The testimonies of Black women intellectuals have represented some of the most powerful work in regards to struggle, perseverance, and healing in negotiating life inside of the U.S. In considering Black women’s testimonial scholarship we call on hook’s notion of “radical black female subje..
IGNORANCE AND INTENSITY: BECOMING THROUGH THE DOCTORAL THESIS
ABSTRACT. In this article we attempt to show the lived experience of the doctorate through lenses which are compounded of Deleuzian, Deweyan and Spinozan influences. We discuss the nature of the doctoral thesis as experience or experiment, and its effects on the beings who are involved with it. Nest..
SHARED DIFFERENCES: CREATIVITY IN GRADUATE RESEARCH
ABSTRACT. In this article, we talk about the centrality of something that “feels creative” in the research process. We talk across shared differences/different but cognate disciplines, different but cognate migrant histories, and the shared difference of a (past) supervisor/supervisee relationship. ..