Who the Cap Fits: Narratives of Writing, Legacy and Place for European Research Network About Parents in Education (ERNAPE) (keynote address)

Description

What are the legacies of family and power which inform our present-day environments? How do these narratives work to enable or inhibit participation, and to amplify or silence voices? This talk challenges well-worn theories which covertly or overtly apportion blame to individuals and groups through the notion of family deficit. Narratives of legacy – including writing by Zora Neale Hurston and Virginia Woolf – will be invoked to illuminate on the ways in which racialised and gendered bodies have been normalised or rendered alien, and to suggest at the present-day consequences. Creative writing has served as means of interrupting dominant narratives which determine who is ‘normal’ and who is ‘Other’ and therefore, out of place. It is proposed here that (re)writing the self can function as an important means of critical space-making.

Period	6 Jun 2025
Event type	Conference
Location	Verona, ItalyShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International