politics and paradigms in the academic workplace /
First Statement of Responsibility
David B. Downing
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Lincoln :
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University of Nebraska Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2005
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x, 326 p. ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-312) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Writing the knowledge contract : an introduction -- Working outside (and beside) the knowledge contract -- Professions, disciplines, and paradigms : reconstructing academic labor within the nonmodern university -- Paradigms performed and the Kuhnification of the humanities -- Radical diversities and the cosmopolitan self : the disciplinary intellectual confronts the multivalent university -- Pragmatic interventions : the lure of method and the rise of disciplinary labor -- The "mop-up" work of theory anthologies : theorizing the discipline and the disciplining of theory -- Beside disciplinary English : working for professional solidarity by reforming academic labor -- Imagined futures : a miniepilogue