Working-class women in academic spaces: finding our muchness |
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| Authors: | Jaye Johnson Thiel |
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| Institution: | Early Childhood Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916, USA |
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| Abstract: | In the Burton, T., dir. 2010. Alice in Wonderland (Film). Burbank: Walt Disney Pictures] cinematographic reimagining of Alice in Wonderland, there is a moment when the Mad Hatter looks sincerely at Alice and tells her that inside her, something is missing – that she used to be much more muchier – that she has somehow lost her muchness. Seeing middle-class upward mobility within academia as a precarious space in which I must negotiate my own muchness, I explore and theorise the phenomenon of muchness through an autoethnographic lens that focuses on events in my and my mother's lives and analyse these events through theories of new materialism. |
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| Keywords: | social class upward mobility new materialism Deleuze autoethnography muchness |
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