Introduction : poststructuralist lines of flight in Australia

This collective, reflexive musing on the impact of poststructuralist theorizing on the processes of selving, on research work and on educational work, makes visible the ways poststructuralist theory works to 'trouble foundational ontologies, methodologies, and epistemologies, in general, and education in particular' (St. Pierre & Pillow, 2000, p. 2). St Pierre and Pillow, citing Butler, write about the power of poststructuralist theory to generate new practices and new forms of agency for individual subjects.