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Love Survives, Art Bochner
It's About Time: Narrative And The Divided Self, Art Bochner
It's About Time: Narrative And The Divided Self, Art Bochner
Art Bochner
When I learned that my father had died while I was attending a national communication conference, two worlds within me - the academic and the personal - collided, and I was forced to confront the large gulf that divided them. In this article, I weave the story of that experience into the wider fabric of disconnections that promotes isolation and inhibits risk taking and change within universities and academic disciplines. In the process, I question whether the structures of power constitutive of academic socialization are not as difficult to resist as those of one's family, and the consequences as constraining. …