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Legibility zones: an empirically-informed framework for considering unbelonging and exclusion in contemporary English academia

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
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