Open AccessWho is being taught? Weaving academic spaces and teaching bodies
Author(s) -
Rozmin Jaffer
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
cultural and pedagogical inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1916-3460
DOI - 10.18733/c39g6z
Subject(s) - inscribed figure , weaving , sociology , action (physics) , space (punctuation) , epistemology , gender studies , geometry , mathematics , philosophy , zoology , biology , physics , linguistics , quantum mechanics
The notion of embodiment, arising out of Body studies and complex ecological theories, situate the body as central to all social action, experience, learning, and research. Spatiality duly problematizes “space” and “place” suggesting that the sites which our bodies inhabit are culturally constructed and constructing. In light of the above, I show how the “teaching” body, as a particular kind of “institutional” body, is enacted, defined, viewed, and treated by others in specific sites. Furthermore, how is the teaching body--at once rendered racialized and gendered--inscribed, marked, bureaucratized, and regulated in institutional settings?