Field Culture in Unprecedented Times: Writing the Unexpected, Narrating the Future at a Virtual Conference
Douglas, Kate, Cardell, Kylie, Deller, Marina, Maguire, Emma, and Sandford, Shannon (2024) Field Culture in Unprecedented Times: Writing the Unexpected, Narrating the Future at a Virtual Conference. Life Writing, 21 (2). pp. 179-195.
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Abstract
We are colleagues and collaborators working in the field of English Literary Studies, broadly defined. This paper reflects on our collective encounters working as Life Writing scholars within the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA). Specifically, we muse autocritically on our experience of organising an online conference at a time when scholars are still experiencing the impact of the pandemic. We propose the term ‘field culture’ to describe and draw attention to the ways in which an academic field is shaped by socio-cultural practices that impact on the kind of knowledge and researcher identities produced within the field. We explore the ‘field culture’ of IABA and its conferences and posit that our research collective is an example of the ways in which academia might be made more accessible for early-career researchers, for those less able to travel to conferences. Reflecting on a series of aims and strategies for the conference, we also make a case for supporting creative practice and creative interventions in life writing as a discipline in which the politics of genre blurring and pushing boundaries has been foundational.
| Item ID: | 82050 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Scholarly Work) |
| ISSN: | 1751-2964 |
| Keywords: | field culture, academic culture, covid19, pandemic, virtual conference, autobiography studies, feminist methods, organisational culture |
| Copyright Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2024 00:57 |
| FoR Codes: | 47 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 4702 Cultural studies > 470208 Culture, representation and identity @ 30% 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4405 Gender studies > 440502 Feminist methodologies @ 20% 47 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 4701 Communication and media studies > 470108 Organisational, interpersonal and intercultural communication @ 50% |
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