Associate Professor Allison Weir
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,
Arts (SoHCA)
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD York University (Canada)
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Arts (SoHCA)
Contact
| Email: | Allison.Weir@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 6879 |
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| Location: | 1.G.59 Bankstown |
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Biography
Allison Weir is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages and a member of the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy. Before coming to UWS in 2010 she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Program in Gender and Women Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. She has also taught at Concordia University in Montreal and the University of Dundee, Scotland, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst. She received her PhD and MA degrees from York University, in the Interdisciplinary Program in Social and Political Thought, and her BA Honours degree from the University of Toronto, where she was awarded the Governor General?s Medal of Canada.
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Weir.
Publications
Books
- Weir, A. (2013), 'Identities and Freedom', : Oxford University Press 978019993686.
Chapters in Books
- Weir, A. (2008), 'The Subversion of Identity: Luce Irigaray and the Critique of Phallogocentrism', French Feminists: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory, Routledge 9780415395526.
Journal Articles
- Weir, A. (2013), 'Feminism and the Islamic Revival: Freedom as a Practice of Belonging', Hypatia: Special Issue on Crossing Borders, .
- Weir, A. (2009), 'Who are we?: Modern identities between Taylor and Foucault', Philosophy & Social Criticism, 21.
- Weir, A. (2008), 'Home and Identity: In Memory of Iris Marion Young', Hypatia, 18.
- Weir, A. (2008), 'Global Feminism and Transformative Identity Politics', Hypatia, 24.
- Weir, A. (2008), 'Global Care Chains: Freedom, Responsibility, and Solidarity', The Southern Journal of Philosophy, .
- Weir, A. (2005), 'The Global Universal Caregiver: Imagining Women's Liberation in the Third Millenium', Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 23.
Supervision
Previous Supervision
| Title: | In what ways does the creation of fictional narratives work as therapeutic acts for both the author and the reader. |
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| Thesis: | In what ways does the creation of fictional narratives work as therapeutic acts for both the author and the reader. |
