The un/methodology of ‘theoretical intuitions’: resources of generations gone before, thinking and feeling class

Hey, V., Leaney, S. and Leyton, D. (2021) The un/methodology of ‘theoretical intuitions’: resources of generations gone before, thinking and feeling class. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 42(1), pp. 17-29. (doi: 10.1080/01596306.2020.1834953)

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’.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Leyton Atenas, Mr Daniel
• Authors: Hey, V., Leaney, S., and Leyton, D.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education
• Journal Name: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISSN: 0159-6306
• ISSN (Online): 1469-3739
• Published Online: 05 November 2020