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Resiliency and responsibilisation

The case of international PhD candidates-in-waiting

Guanglun Michael Mu

2020 was full of potholes and distractions. As celebrations for the Year of the Rat wound down in China and Australia oriented to a new academic year, COVID started to go rampant across the globe. Right before the pandemic, Harry, Lili and Tina (pseudonyms) – like many other Chinese international students – had their visa […]

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Mu, G. M. (2021). Resiliency and responsibilisation: The case of international PhD candidates-in-waiting. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/resiliency-and-responsibilisation/

Guanglun Michael Mu

Dr Guanglun Michael Mu is Senior Research Fellow in Queensland University of Technology. He is developing a sociology of resilience through his work with Chinese floating children and left-behind children in migration context; Chinese teachers in inclusive education context; and diverse student populations in Australia’s multicultural context. Michael’s work has been published into five books and numerous papers.

Article Feature Image Acknowledgement: Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash
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Sociologising resilience with Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas of social change

Guanglun Michael Mu
four children standing on dirt during daytime

Human beings live in a universe of diversity. One response to such diversity is ‘lazy inclusivism’ that persists as an institutionalisation of ethical but tokenistic celebration of differences. Since tokenistic celebration portrays the human universe as a multichrome mosaic of monochrome blocs, lazy inclusivism reinforces social stereotyping of differences. At the same time, social differences, […]

Full Citation Information:
Mu, G. M. (2020). Sociologising resilience with Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas of social change. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/sociologising-resilience-with-pierre-bourdieus-ideas-of-social-change/

Guanglun Michael Mu

Dr Guanglun Michael Mu is Senior Research Fellow in Queensland University of Technology. He is developing a sociology of resilience through his work with Chinese floating children and left-behind children in migration context; Chinese teachers in inclusive education context; and diverse student populations in Australia’s multicultural context. Michael’s work has been published into five books and numerous papers.

Article Feature Image Acknowledgement: Photo by Ben Wicks on Unsplash