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SUMMARY:Voices and Power: Academic-Activism and Writing from Anywhere Real
  (here\, from Global East) - Dr Joanna Kusiak\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Dr Danai Avgeri
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I reflect on my experience - as a writer and as
  an editor of an Important Academic Journal - on bending the dominant writ
 ing style to express the particularities of one’s voice and urban experi
 ence. Can we realize critical urban studies’ vociferous ambition to expa
 nd geographies of theory-making\, if we implicitly expect everyone to writ
 e in the same standardized format of Anglo-American research article? To w
 hich extent does the form determine the scope of what can be expressed? I 
 argue that we should not only ‘include’ broader range of voices into o
 ur notions of excellence\, but also actively create new models of excellen
 ce out of our diversity. While English\, despite its colonial heritage\, r
 emains precious as our only real ‘Esperanto\,’ we need to work togethe
 r – native and non-native writers – to broaden the range of legitimate
  authorial styles so that it matches the real diversity of our thinking. H
 owever\, to be able to do it we need to skilfully navigate the expectation
 s of the neoliberal academia\, bending the rules just enough to change the
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LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre (SLT)\,  Department of Geography 
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