Dr Eva Bendix Petersen
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Dr Eva Bendix Petersen joined HUMCASS in 2006. Prior to that she has held academic positions in other Australian and Danish universities. She has lectured in a wide range of areas including social theories of identity and self, gender and feminist theory, youth studies, the sociology of education and research methods.
Research Interests / Publications
Eva's research interests revolve around the question of how identities, subjects and subjectivities are produced in various social contexts. In particular she is interested in academic subjectivities and cultures, also as they are traversed by gender and by neoliberal discourse. She has expertise in discursive and narrative approaches to the study of subject formation, post-realist research methodologies, higher education policy, gender and feminist theory.
Publications
Monographs:
Petersen, E.B. (2004) Academic Boundary Work. The discursive constitution of scientificity' amongst researchers within the social sciences and humanities , University of Copenhagen: Copenhagen.
Petersen, E.B. (1999) Køn, Virksomhed og Kompetence en destabiliserende diskursanalyse af videnskabssamfundets kønnede konstruktioner [Gender and Competence a destabilising discourse analysis of Academe's gendered constructions], arbejdspapir nr. 6, Ed. I. Henningsen, Køn i den Akademiske Organisation: Copenhagen.
Book chapters:
Petersen, E.B. (forthcoming) Un/doing Academicity: Academic subjectification in a neoliberal policy landscape, in Eds. J. Kofoed & D. Staunæs,Virkelighedsjusteringer - Magt, modstand og levet liv , Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitetsforlag, Copenhagen
Petersen, E.B. (2007) Passionately Attached: Academic subjects of desire, in Ed. B. Davies, Judith Butler in Conversation. Analysing the texts and talk of everyday life . Routledge: New York
Davies, B., Browne, J., Gannon, S., Honan, E., Laws, C., Mueller-Rockstroh, B. & Petersen E.B. (2006) The ambivalent practices of reflexivity, in Eds. B. Davies and S. Gannon, Doing Collective Biography , Open University Press, Maidenhead
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
Petersen, E.B. (2007 in press) The Conduct of Concern: Exclusionary discursive practices and subject positions in Academia, Educational Philosophy and Theory
Petersen, E.B. (2007) Negotiating Academicity: Postgraduate Research Supervision as Category Boundary Work, Studies in Higher Education 32(4): 475-487
Petersen, E.B. & O'Flynn, G. (2007) Neoliberal technologies of subject formation: A case study of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme, Critical Studies in Education , 48(2): 197-211
O'Flynn, G. & Petersen, E.B. (2007) The good life' and the rich portfolio': Young women, schooling and neoliberal subjectification, British Journal for the Sociology of Education , 28(4): 459-472
Petersen, E.B. (2007) A day at the office at the University of Borderville : An ethnographic short story, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 20(2): 173-189
Davies, B. & Petersen, E.B. (2005) Neoliberal discourse in the Academy: The forestalling of (collective) resistance, Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences 2(2): 77-98
Davies, B. & Petersen, E.B. (2005) Intellectual Workers (un)doing Neoliberal Discourse, International Journal of Critical Psychology, 13:32-54
Davies, B., Browne, J., Gannon, S., Honan, E., Laws, C., Mueller-Rockstroh, B. & Petersen E.B (2004) The ambivalent practices of reflexivity,Qualitative Inquiry , 10(3): 360-389
Hammershøj, L.G. & Petersen, E.B. (2001): Kan man slå sig på en konstruktion? Til rekonstruktion af bekymringer for og misforståelser af social konstruktivisme [Can a Social Construction hurt? R econstructing current worries and misunderstandings of social constructivism], Sosiologi Idag , 31(2): 41-65
Staunæs, D. & Petersen, E.B. (2000): Overskridende Metodologier en introduktion [Transgressive Methodology an introduction], Kvinder, Køn & Forskning , 9(4): 3-15
Petersen, E.B. (2000) Mainstreaming af irrelevante' fænomener er det muligt? [Mainstreaming of irrelevant' phenomena is it possible?],Kvinder, Køn & Forskning , 8(1): 53-57
Petersen, E.B. (1999) Fisseflokkens feministiske skridt [Fisseflokken's Feminist Paces], Kvinder, Køn & Forskning , 7(4): 86-92
Refereed conference proceedings
Petersen, E.B. (2006): Australian early career researchers negotiating the culture change' of higher education reform. Refereed Conference proceedings for The Australian Sociology Association annual conference , December 4-7, Perth
Contact Details
- Phone:
- 03 9902 6559 or 5122 6559
- Fax:
- 03 9902 6359 or 5122 6359
- Office:
- 1E128
- Email:
- Eva.Petersen@arts.monash.edu.au
- Address:
- School of Humanities, Communications & Social
Sciences
Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Northways Road,
Churchill, Victoria 3842