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It really is a gender thing, for me
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It really is a gender thing, for me

Nicola Apps
Departing Radically in Academic Writing: Alternative Approaches to Writing and Methods in Qualitative Research, pp.199-212
Routledge, 1st
2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003360766-17
Appears in  Recent Faculty of Education Publications

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Abstract

At this early stage of the author's thesis his readings are around how he position himself, the standpoint he will occupy, and the more he read the more he find himself subject to “the feminist snap.” As Sara Ahmed says, “by snapping you are saying: He will not reproduce a world he cannot bear, a world he do not think should be borne.” Articulating the snap is challenging, especially when others want to silence him. Recently he shared with an academic colleague, that he embody consciousness in every cell of his body, and his aggressive visceral response was “well, that's another bucket-load of bullshit!”—a harsh reminder that not only do “discussions of personal spirituality have no place in the academy,” but that one's very reality can be forcefully denied by others. he have had enough of violence of every kind, not least “the epistemic violence whose consequence is disappearing knowledge.

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