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Managing Public, Professional and Personal Identities Spreading Ideas without Selling Your Soul? Matthew Waites Director of Postgraduate Research School.

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1 Managing Public, Professional and Personal Identities Spreading Ideas without Selling Your Soul? Matthew Waites Director of Postgraduate Research School of Social and Political Sciences

2 Three dimensions Public identity Public identity Professional identity Professional identity Personal identity Personal identity

3 Public identity Thinking the Public: Thinking the Public: The Public Sphere The Public Sphere Being a Public Intellectual Being a Public Intellectual Critical Theory: Critical Theory: Jurgen Habermas (1962) The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere An organic intellectual? (Gramsci) An organic intellectual? (Gramsci) A specific intellectual? (Foucault) A specific intellectual? (Foucault)

4 Professional Identity PhD students and being professional PhD students and being professional Not yet a professional? Not yet a professional? PhD as a proving ground for being professional? PhD as a proving ground for being professional? The Sociology of the Professions The Sociology of the Professions Anne Witz (1992) Professions and Patriarchy Anne Witz (1992) Professions and Patriarchy

5 Personal Identity Must the Personal be excluded from the Professional and the Public? Must the Personal be excluded from the Professional and the Public? The Personal is Political – Feminism The Personal is Political – Feminism

6 Rethinking the Personal in the Professional and the Public Identity Politics Identity Politics Eg. Gay Identity: Coming out from the closet Coming out from the closet Revealing the personal behind the professional curtain? Revealing the personal behind the professional curtain?

7 Queer approaches Counterpublics Counterpublics Michael Warner (2002) Michael Warner (2002) Publics and Counterpublics The problematic lack of boundaries between publics and counterpublics The problematic lack of boundaries between publics and counterpublics Performativity Performativity Judith Butler Judith Butler The performativity of public intellectuals The performativity of public intellectuals Inescapably selling your soul? Inescapably selling your soul?

8 PhD Students The value of an independent thinking space The value of an independent thinking space

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