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Jenny Browne (University of Newcastle), Bronwyn Davies (University of Western Sydney), Susanne Gannon (University of Western Sydney), Eileen Honan (Deakin University), Margaret Somerville (University of New England).

(Group Presentation)

'Truly Wild Things: The Mobility and Constraint of (Female) Academic Embodiment'

In this paper we use collective biography methodology to interrogate (our) bodies at work in academia. We elaborate the methodology as poststructuralist, arguing that its processes can be understood in terms of 'rhizomes' and 'lines of flight' (Delueze and Guattari, 1987). We read the body as a site of instability, held in tension by the contradictory ideals of mobility and constraint. The texts we subject to analysis are our bodies themselves and the memories enfolded in our flesh. Creative and innovative strategies enable us to think and be collectively, and we begin to see and imagine our ways and other ways of being embodied in academic workplaces.

<Jenny.Browne@newcastle.edu.au>
<Bronwyn.Davies@uws.edu.au>
<S.Gannon@uws.edu.au>
<ehonan@deakin.edu.au>
<msomervi@pobox.une.edu.au>

Jenny Browne (University of Newcastle), Bronwyn Davies (University of Western Sydney), Susanne Gannon (University of Western Sydney), Eileen Honan (Deakin University), Margaret Somerville (University of New England). (Group Presentation)

'Truly Wild Things: The Mobility and Constraint of (Female) Academic Embodiment'

Jenny Browne (University of Newcastle), Bronwyn Davies (University of Western Sydney), Susanne Gannon (University of Western Sydney), Eileen Honan (Deakin University), Margaret Somerville (University of New England).

(Group Presentation)