Managing Public, Managing Public, Professional and Personal Professional and Personal

IdentitiesIdentitiesSpreading Ideas Spreading Ideas withoutwithout Selling Your Soul? Selling Your Soul?

Matthew WaitesMatthew Waites

Director of Postgraduate ResearchDirector of Postgraduate Research

School of Social and Political School of Social and Political Sciences Sciences

Three dimensionsThree dimensions

Public identityPublic identityProfessional identityProfessional identityPersonal identityPersonal identity

Public identityPublic 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) Jurgen Habermas (1962) The Structural The Structural

Transformation of the Public SphereTransformation of the Public Sphere An organic intellectual? (Gramsci)An organic intellectual? (Gramsci)A specific intellectual? (Foucault) A specific intellectual? (Foucault)

Professional IdentityProfessional Identity

PhD students and being professionalPhD students and being professionalNot yet a professional?Not yet a professional?PhD as a proving ground for being PhD as a proving ground for being

professional?professional?The Sociology of the Professions The Sociology of the Professions

Anne Witz (1992) Professions and Anne Witz (1992) Professions and PatriarchyPatriarchy

Personal IdentityPersonal Identity

Must the Personal be excluded from Must the Personal be excluded from the Professional and the Public?the Professional and the Public?

The Personal is Political – Feminism The Personal is Political – Feminism

Rethinking the Personal Rethinking the Personal in the Professional and the in the Professional and the

Public Public Identity Politics Identity Politics

Eg. Gay Identity: Eg. Gay Identity: Coming out from the closetComing out from the closetRevealing the personal behind the Revealing the personal behind the

professional curtain?professional curtain?

Queer approachesQueer approaches

Counterpublics Counterpublics Michael Warner (2002) Michael Warner (2002)

Publics and CounterpublicsPublics and CounterpublicsThe problematic lack of boundaries The problematic lack of boundaries

between publics and counterpublicsbetween publics and counterpublicsPerformativityPerformativity

Judith ButlerJudith ButlerThe performativity of public intellectuals The performativity of public intellectuals Inescapably ‘selling your soul’?Inescapably ‘selling your soul’?

PhD StudentsPhD Students

The value of an independent thinking The value of an independent thinking space space