http://www.southernperspectives.net/region/australia/interview-with-raewyn-connell?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interview-with-raewyn-connell A lateral dialogue of ideas Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:01:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.southernperspectives.net/region/australia/interview-with-raewyn-connell/comment-page-1#comment-1956 Busisiwe Ntsele Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:11:11 +0000 http://www.southernperspectives.net/region/australia/interview-with-raewyn-connell#comment-1956 Im studying Industrial Sociology-Honours.Thank you for attending one of our lectures the Southern Theory gave us an amazing perspective as upcoming academics if you do return please engage with us again. Im studying Industrial Sociology-Honours.Thank you for attending one of our lectures the Southern Theory gave us an amazing perspective as upcoming academics if you do return please engage with us again.

]]> http://www.southernperspectives.net/region/australia/interview-with-raewyn-connell/comment-page-1#comment-1052 Kevin Murray Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:39:43 +0000 http://www.southernperspectives.net/region/australia/interview-with-raewyn-connell#comment-1052 That's an interesting question Busisiwe. I think at a basic level countries like Australia and South Africa share similar challenges in our distance from the metropolitan centres. Of course, there are large differences in our societies, but our universities are both modelled on the notion that we engage with major theories by collecting data, rather than contesting those ideas at the centre. We both have reason to do that, as societies that must negotiate the divided society which is the aftermath of colonisation. This is a condition that is not typical of transatlantic centres. We must not only consider knowledge for its own sake, but also for the social conditions of its production. So what's the situation like in South Africa. What are you studying? That’s an interesting question Busisiwe. I think at a basic level countries like Australia and South Africa share similar challenges in our distance from the metropolitan centres. Of course, there are large differences in our societies, but our universities are both modelled on the notion that we engage with major theories by collecting data, rather than contesting those ideas at the centre. We both have reason to do that, as societies that must negotiate the divided society which is the aftermath of colonisation. This is a condition that is not typical of transatlantic centres. We must not only consider knowledge for its own sake, but also for the social conditions of its production.
So what’s the situation like in South Africa. What are you studying?

]]> http://www.southernperspectives.net/region/australia/interview-with-raewyn-connell/comment-page-1#comment-1051 Busisiwe Ntsele Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:49:33 +0000 http://www.southernperspectives.net/region/australia/interview-with-raewyn-connell#comment-1051 Good day ,Im an Honours student at UJ and find the Southern Theory VERY EXCITING BUT IN YOUR VIEW HOW WOULD YOU EXPLAIN IT USING THE EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE LIVING IN LESS DEVELOPED WORLDS like us here in South Africa? Good day ,Im an Honours student at UJ and find the Southern Theory VERY EXCITING BUT IN YOUR VIEW HOW WOULD YOU EXPLAIN IT USING THE EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE LIVING IN LESS DEVELOPED WORLDS like us here in South Africa?

]]> http://www.southernperspectives.net/region/australia/interview-with-raewyn-connell/comment-page-1#comment-328 Raewyn Connell ‘Thinking South: Re-Locating Australian Intellectual Culture’ 18 March 2010 – Southern Perspectives Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:36:28 +0000 http://www.southernperspectives.net/region/australia/interview-with-raewyn-connell#comment-328 [...] Raewyn Connell is University Professor at University of Sydney. See interview. [...] [...] Raewyn Connell is University Professor at University of Sydney. See interview. [...]

]]> http://www.southernperspectives.net/region/australia/interview-with-raewyn-connell/comment-page-1#comment-15 Kevin Murray Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:36:01 +0000 http://www.southernperspectives.net/region/australia/interview-with-raewyn-connell#comment-15 It's interesting to learn that Connell's book is getting such positive response, though ironically much of it seem to be in the North. Is that specifically from a northern perspective, or reflecting composition of the discipline as a whole? The comment from the American colleague was very interesting about problems for students in specialising themselves out of the mainstream by pursuing this line of thought. Perhaps that won't be so in the future. Change has to come from somewhere. It’s interesting to learn that Connell’s book is getting such positive response, though ironically much of it seem to be in the North. Is that specifically from a northern perspective, or reflecting composition of the discipline as a whole? The comment from the American colleague was very interesting about problems for students in specialising themselves out of the mainstream by pursuing this line of thought. Perhaps that won’t be so in the future. Change has to come from somewhere.

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