TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shepherd,Laura J.
TI  - The self, and other stories: being, knowing, writing 
T2  - Creative interventions in global politics
SN  - 9781538169636
AV  - LA2392.S55 A3 2023
U1  - 126 23/eng/20221228
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Lanham, Maryland
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - Shepherd, Laura J.
KW  - Self (Philosophy)
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Biographical methods
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Feminist authors
KW  - Women college teachers
KW  - Australia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Exegesis -- Expertise -- Encounter -- Engagement -- Experience -- Entanglements -- Epilogue
N2  - "The Self, and Other Stories lies at the intersection of IR and the personal. Through seven reflexive essays, Shepherd explores themes of writing as a way of being and knowing, but also as a necessary form of self-expression in contemporary academia"--; "This open access book is an autoethnographic reflection on the value in the act of writing, illuminating the life of the researcher-in particular the researcher as human. Shepherd explores the multitudes of the academic, feminist self through expanding vocabularies of how scholars, researchers, writers, teachers, and academics can make sense of their worlds.
At the intersection of international relations theory and the personal, Shepherd presents seven reflexive essays on aspects of being and knowing as she has encountered them. The essays are grounded in and inspired by her experiences as a way of asking readers to imagine how knowledge production in the social sciences might look different if we could create and hold space for different ways of writing, being, and knowing. The disciplining practices which produce our limited modes of academic expression can be encountered otherwise. She calls on us to reflect on academic subjectification across the interconnected spaces we simultaneously inhabit and produce"--
ER  -