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Really interesting discussion and I don’t consider myself well enough steeped in the history of Australian Cultural Studies to add to that particular point. Rather I’m learning from the debates. <BR>
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But what I do know about is being an older early career researcher. Can I just say how marginalising I find the use of the phrase ‘younger researcher’ in place of ‘early’ - being in your late 40s (or in the case of one of my really inspiring colleagues – her late 60s), age is a pretty irrelevant factor when it comes to the hope that we might contribute to cultural studies research within the academy. So the implicit assumption that all people starting a research career are young, whatever that might mean, is the kind of battle that one faces every day in the academy when trying to kick start an academic/research career beyond the point at which some people think one should have had a real job. Being young/old/male/female/gay – whatever – brings problems within what is really a very bureaucratic and traditional environment. Which, I suppose, speaks to the contribution that a cultural studies presence can make not only in looking out from academic institutions, but also looking inward.<BR>
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