Academics on the move? Gender, race and place in transnational academic mobility

Mählck, Paula

doi:10.3402/nstep.v2.29784

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“…However, after taking legal action, Mary Jackson finally got her rights and was able to attend the training. As a reflection of reality (McQuail, 2005), the scene experienced by Mary Jackson can show how the education space (school) which should be value-free is actually entangled in discriminatory practices (Lomotey, 2019;Mählck, 2016;Mitchell Jr. et al, 2017).…”

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Representation of Black Feminism in Hidden Figures

Ikhsano¹,

Jakarudi²

2020

NJOC

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Hidden Figures is a film based on the true story of three African American women who help NASA in the space race. The three African American women are Katherine G. Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan. With the setting of the 1960s era, these three women are fighting against a climate of segregation (separation based on race or skin color) in their work environment (NASA). This study aims to explore Patricia Hill Collins’ theory of black feminism and to integrate it with Stella Ting-Toomey’s theory of face-negotiation. This research is based on a critical paradigm and uses a qualitative approach. Using Sara Mills’s critical discourse analysis as a data analysis technique, this study found a representation of black feminism in the film Hidden Figures. The discrimination experienced by the characters is in the form of racism, sexism, and classism. However, the resistance carried out by the characters is through self definition, not in safe spaces as mentioned by Collins. The characters also do not avoid conflict, but use a negotiation approach with a compromising style to achieve a win-win solution.Keywords: Black feminism, face-negotiation, racism, sexism, classism ABSTRAKHidden Figures adalah film yang diangkat berdasarkan kisah nyata tiga perempuan Afro-Amerika yang membantu NASA dalam space race. Ketiga perempuan Afro-Amerika itu adalah Katherine G. Johnson, Mary Jackson, dan Dorothy Vaughan. Dengan setting waktu era 1960-an, ketiga perempuan ini berjuang melawan iklim segregasi (pemisahan berdasarkan pada ras atau warna kulit) di lingkungan kerja mereka (NASA). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendalami teori black feminism Patricia Hill Collins dan hendak mengintegrasikannya dengan teori face-negotiation Stella Ting-Toomey. Penelitian ini didasarkan pada paradigma kritis dan menggunakan penekatan kualitatif. Menggunakan analisis wacana kritis Sara Mills sebagai teknik analisis data, penelitian ini menemukan representasi black feminism di dalam film Hidden Figures. Diskriminasi yang dialami para tokoh adalah berupa racism, sexism, dan classism. Akan tetapi, perlawanan yang dilakukan para tokoh adalah melalui self definition, tidak dilakukan dalam safe spaces sebagaimana disinggung oleh Collins. Para tokoh juga tidak menghindari konflik, namun menggunakan pendekatan negosiasi dengan gaya compromising style dalam mencapai win-win solution.Kata Kunci: Black feminism, face-negotiation, racism, sexism, classism

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Representation of Black Feminism in Hidden Figures

Ikhsano¹,

Jakarudi²

2020

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“…Focussing on academic women with a migrant background in Sweden, Mählck (2013:, 69) investigates how "embodied dimensions of processes of racialization" are integral for the construction of inequality regimes in academia. Through the notion of "embodied discursive geographies", Mählck (2016) analyses how the processes of intersectional, gendered and racialised inequalities shift across different post-colonial work sites and create "contradictory positionalities of privilege and disadvantage" (Mählck 2016, 9-10).…”

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Epistemic modalities of racialised knowledge production in the Swedish academy

Thapar‐Björkert

Farahani

2019

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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The central aim of this article is to examine the impact of racialization processes within the Swedish academic community in order to understand what kinds of knowledge productions and knowing subject positions are rendered (im)possible in everyday academic interactions. Through autoethnography as an alternative methodological entry point, we analyse our embodied racialised experiences of navigating through historically white universities within a geo-political context framed through a supposedly "colour blind" and "post-racial society". Our analytical reasoning is presented through several steps. First, we discuss how academic habitus and affiliations maintained in various scientific forums is informed through established, racialised norms and if/whose knowledge is marginalized, devalued, or/and is included due to the reductive representation. Second, we discuss how an uncultivated sense of epistemic entitlement, within different academic settings and communities, constructs indisputable knowing subjects and generates (un)earned (un)comfortable zones. Third, we argue how managing the existing accent ceiling becomes a mode for navigating the norms of whiteness.

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“…However, there is little research to date on how nationality diversity is understood and viewed by foreign-born academic staff and how the organizations in academia have responded to the new reality of increased nationality diversity among personnel. In the context of the Nordic countries, this research is quite recent (Jonasson et al 2018;Mählck 2016;Sandell 2014a), as is the case worldwide.…”

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Nationality Diversity in Academia: What is the Problem Represented to be?

Maximova-Mentzoni

Egeland

2019

NJWLS

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This article investigates problem representations of nationality diversity at higher education and research institutions in Norway and in the other Nordic countries. Nationality diversity refers to different nationalities among academic staff that increases language, value and information diversity in organizations. Employing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be’ approach, we uncover problem representations identified in previous Nordic research on nationality diversity in academia as well as in a recent case study on nationality diversity at Norwegian higher education and research institutions. While the literature review identifies different problem representations, explores their underlying conceptual logics and describes how these problem representations are formed, the Norwegian case study intends to address problem representations that seem to be left unproblematic both in previous research and organizational practices in Norwegian academia.

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Academics on the move? Gender, race and place in transnational academic mobility

Cited by 20 publications

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Representation of Black Feminism in Hidden Figures

Representation of Black Feminism in Hidden Figures

Epistemic modalities of racialised knowledge production in the Swedish academy

Nationality Diversity in Academia: What is the Problem Represented to be?

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