Affected/Ive Voices and Silences Within the University Territory: Listening with Soft Ears to Experiences of Female, Migrant, PhD Students

Abstract

In this paper, we present a photovoice experience with female migrant PhD students. This experience has been analysed from a postqualitative perspective paying attention to the participation of more-than-human agents such as voice and silence, and the entanglement of bodies through affect. Researchers participated in the construction of the data and three vignettes are used to facilitate the visualisation of the event. Our analysis found that the voices and silences that we listened to are not individual but reflect a collective assemblage of enunciation. Furthermore, these voices have the capacity to deterritorialise discourses allowing the emergence of unexpected discourses as lines of flight and of smooth spaces at university. Listening to the voices and silences that emerged during the experience indicates the importance of constructing a fairer university space where all voices have an opportunity to be listened to, regardless of gender, social class or race.