ABSTRACT
In the context of the neoliberalisation of universities the pressure to produce knowledge that separates the matters of life from the production of knowledge is acute and ongoing. Positivist research and large scale quantitative data is increasingly valued alongside the concomitant erasure of embodied place-based knowledge required for planetary sustainability. In this chapter, we address the question of how to keep matters of life at the forefront of knowledge production through a deep intergenerational relationship developed in doctoral supervision. We focus on the ways that female body/minds produce knowledges, where female bodies are understood as porous, inter-corporeal entities in relation to other materialities and life forms. We use a process of libidinal mapping to trace the shift into ‘the afterward’ of feminist post-qualitative research as ‘imagined out of what is already happening, embedded in the immanence of doing’ (Lather, 2013:635). Libidinal mapping follows the multiple linkages of events, experiences, and data that defy neat categorisation and emerge from the unrepresentability of bodies (MacLure, 2013). We do this through the exchange of body/place writing and body/place blog posts to map these moments and movements of intergenerational knowledge production in the space of women's doctoral supervisory relations.
