Risking the Personal: Academic Friendship, Feminist Role Models and Katherine Mansfield

Memórias da Escola-Parque de Brasília

“…Nesse contexto, a Filosofia adquiriu um sentido pragmático, pois para o seu principal protagonista da University of Chicago era (Mayhew;Edwards, 2007;Moreira, 2001).…”

Better Together: The Role of Critical Friendship in Empowering Early Career Academics

“…The academic space continues to privilege the voices, opinions, and interests of the dominant. In the research we have explored for this study, the dominant refers to male (Mayhew & Rydstrand, 2019;Mbatha et al, 2020), White (Crenshaw, 1989;1991), able-bodied (Wideman-Johnston, 2016; 2020), individualistic (Mayhew & Rydstrand, 2019), competitive (Enslin & Hedge, 2019), and tenured (Enslin & Hedge, 2019;Mbatha et al, 2020) people. Like Clarke and McCall (2013), we imagine many other areas of intersectionality within the context of precarious labour in the academy and we bring an assumption that intersections outside of the dominant players will continue to marginalize aspiring scholars.…”

“…Studies focusing specifically on critical friendship from feminist perspectives were not found in our literature search; however, there was research that incorporated the values of friendship in academic settings, and studies about critical friendship such as Mbatha et al (2020), which describe disparities experienced by female scholars in neoliberal academic contexts. In an article about academic friendship, Mayhew and Rydstrand (2019) described their friendship in an academic setting by describing a significant event-the giving of a poster depicting a feminist author that both scholars cherished-and using the significance of the event and poster to explain their friendship. The authors focused on "risks" associated with collaborative academic settings, including being seen as less-than-capable compared to the "model of lone masculine genius" (Mayhew & Rydstrand, 2019, p. 287).…”

“…Mayhew and Rydstrand wrote their paper on the premise that risks would need to be taken to both engage in an academic friendship, and to advocate for the benefits of such collaboration, especially between females who continually have more to lose and less to gain. Mayhew and Rydstrand (2019) stated: Collaborating with her on this project has made me a better scholar-more creative, open and adventurous-and I want to acknowledge how powerful that is in an industrial climate that operates on a logic of competition. In this context, collaboration with the enemy-the rival early career researcher-is undertaken in joyful shared defiance.…”