The un/methodology of ‘theoretical intuitions’: resources of generations gone before, thinking and feeling class

Valerie Hey, Sarah Leaney, Daniel Leyton

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    Abstract

    Class Matters, by Mahony and Zmroczek (1997), was an important
    collection marking working-class women’s contribution to the
    academy and society. In taking up the question of class, this
    paper considers the ways in which a partial and particular
    discourse reflected its author’s material circumstances, including
    her preferred conceptual interests as well as her un(self)conscious
    knowledge. In revisiting the way class ‘mattered’, and continues
    to matter – we devised and enacted an exploratory dialogical
    methodology to open up the original text to new meanings and
    interpretations influenced by generationally and geographically
    specific intellectual/theoretical vocabularies. The paper enacts this
    multivocality with reflections from each author, connected by a
    co-authored exploration of affect and the power and problematic
    of the ‘autobiography of the question’.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1-13
    JournalDiscourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 5 Nov 2020

    Keywords

    • Class
    • Affect
    • Multivocality
    • Generation
    • Identification

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