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Legibility zones: an empirically-informed framework for considering unbelonging and exclusion in contemporary English academia
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Title: | Legibility zones: an empirically-informed framework for considering unbelonging and exclusion in contemporary English academia |
Authors: | Wren Butler, J |
Item Type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | This article introduces a new, empirically-derived conceptual framework for considering exclusion in English higher education (HE): legibility zones. Drawing on interviews with academic employees in England, it suggests that participants orientate themselves to a powerful imaginary termed the hegemonic academic. Failing to align with this ideal can engender a sense of dislocation conceptualised as unbelonging. The mechanisms through which hegemonic academic identity is constituted and unbelonging is experienced are mapped onto three domains: the institutional, the ideological, and the embodied. The framework reveals the mutable and intersecting nature of these zones, highlighting the complex dynamics of unbelonging and the attendant challenge presented to inclusion projects when many apparatuses of exclusion are perceived as fundamental to what HE is for, what an academic is, and how academia functions. |
Issue Date: | 21-Jul-2021 |
Date of Acceptance: | 20-Apr-2021 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/102076 |
DOI: | 10.17645/si.v9i3.4074 |
ISSN: | 2183-2803 |
Publisher: | Cogitatio Press |
Start Page: | 16 |
End Page: | 26 |
Journal / Book Title: | Social Inclusion |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 3 |
Copyright Statement: | © 2021 by the author; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY). |
Publication Status: | Published |
Online Publication Date: | 2021-07-21 |
Appears in Collections: | Central Faculty |
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