This article draws two threads of argument together, one emerging from higher education scholarship on affective-politics and another surfacing from queer and feminist theorisations of negative feeling. I begin the article by considering the ways in which higher education scholarship has tended to code the political utility of emotions. More...
Education Minister attacks university staff in a desperate bid to justify $2.8 billion cuts
At yesterday’s Higher Education Summit, the Minister advised universities that the opportunity offered by the Fair Work Commission’s decision to terminate the Murdoch University Enterprise Bargaining Agreement, "should be seized, and hopefully can be replicated elsewhere” in the sector. More...