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Reflecting on the mobile academic
Auto-ethnographic writing in the knowledge economy
in Learning and Teaching
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Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich
Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich
Victoria University of Wellington brigitte.bonisch-brednich@vuw.ac.nz
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This article examines what it means to be an academic in the knowledge economy, using auto-ethnographic writing or storytelling as its starting point. Although academic mobility has been researched for about a decade, deep listening and deep reading in the context of ethnography have not been utilised in analysing what it means to move in this global space. To conduct this exercise, fellows from the European Union-funded Universities in the Knowledge Economy project who were all mobile academics, were invited to participate in ethnographic writing workshops and explore the personal, subjective elements of narrating their experiences of being mobile and being migrants. I aim to not only present the narratives of colleagues who populate the global knowledge economy but also analyse them and ask if certain ideal forms of narrative habitus support academic mobility.