The un/methodology of 'theoretical intuitions': resources of generations gone before, thinking and feeling class. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hey, Valerie; Leaney, Sarah; Leyton, Daniel
• Is Part Of: Discourse. Volume 42:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 17
• Page End: 29
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Class -- affect -- multivocality -- generation -- identification; Education -- Periodicals; Education -- Australia -- Periodicals; 370.5
• DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2020.1834953
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0159-6306

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Class Matters, by Mahony and Zmroczek (1997), was an important collection marking working-class women's contribution to the academy and society. In taking up the question of class, this paper considers the ways in which a partial and particular discourse reflected its author's material circumstances, including her preferred conceptual interests as well as her un(self)conscious knowledge. In revisiting the way class 'mattered', and continues to matter – we devised and enacted an exploratory dialogical methodology to open up the original text to new meanings and interpretations influenced by generationally and geographically specific intellectual/theoretical vocabularies. The paper enacts this multivocality with reflections from each author, connected by a co-authored exploration of affect and the power and problematic of the 'autobiography of the question'.