Contesting Criticality in a Scholarly Diaspora

Abstract

The idea of a ‘Deakin Diaspora’ is as interesting as it is puzzling. It is interesting because it invites a line of inquiry about the mobility of academics identified around a set of scholarly ideas. It is puzzling however because it is not clear whether the idea of ‘diaspora’ is entirely appropriate to refer to a group of scholars, who happened to work together at Deakin University in Australia in the 1980s, but who are now dispersed around the world.