Engendering belonging: thoughtful gatherings with/in online and virtual spaces

Alison L Black; Gail Crimmins; Rachael Dwyer; Victoria Lister

doi:10.1080/09540253.2019.1680808

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Engendering belonging: thoughtful gatherings with/in online and virtual spaces

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Engendering belonging: thoughtful gatherings with/in online and virtual spaces

Alison L Black, Gail Crimmins, Rachael Dwyer and Victoria Lister

Gender and Education, Vol.32(1), pp.115-129

2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2019.1680808

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Abstract

women in academia

autoethnography

academic conferences

online gatherings

conferring

Conference attendance is a feature of contemporary academic work and an accepted way of building academic identities and networks through the dissemination and promotion of ideas, achievements and research. However, our personal experiences have caused us to problematise the traditional conference and consider alternatives which mitigate its associated problems yet achieve its aims. In this paper, we use collaborative autoethnography to engage in inquiry about the roles of conferences, and their inhabited notions of representation, membership and inclusion/exclusion. We use personal experiences of virtual confer-ring to highlight that many agreed-upon purposes of attending conferences can be effectively achieved through other means. We explore how particular ways of engaging with technologies enable responsive gathering spaces, relational knowledge production, kinship and community; and facilitate the development, and promotion of scholars and scholarship. We offer a view that confer-ring interactions in online/virtual spaces can support collegial, feminist and egalitarian sharing and knowledge exchange.

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Title: Engendering belonging: thoughtful gatherings with/in online and virtual spaces
Authors: Alison L Black (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Gail Crimmins (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - School of Creative Industries
Rachael Dwyer (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - School of Education
Victoria Lister (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Publication details: Gender and Education, Vol.32(1), pp.115-129
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2020
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2019.1680808
ISSN: 0954-0253
Copyright note: Copyright (C) 2020. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Gender and Education on 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09540253.2019.1680808
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450878102621
Output Type: Journal article

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