Academic Writing and Identity Constructions: Performativity, Space and Territory in Academic Workplaces

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This book presents multiple cultural and contextual takes on working performances of academic/writer/thinker, both inside and outside the academy. With worldwide, seismic shifts taking place in both the contexts and terrains of universities, and subsequently the altering of what it means to write as an academic and work in academia, the editors and contributors use writing to position and re-position themselves as academics, thinkers and researchers. Using as a point of departure universities and academic/writing work contexts shaped by the increasing dominance of commodification, measurement and performativity, this volume explores responses to these evolving, shifting contexts. In response to the growing global interest in writing as performance, this book breaks new ground by theorizing multiple identity constructions of academic/writer/researcher; considering the possibilities and challenges of engaging in academic writing work in ways that are authentic and sustainable. This reflective and interdisciplinary volume will resonate with students and scholars of academic writing, as well as all those working to reconcile different facets of identity. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Stepping into the Flow… Lif/ve De-comforting Academic Writing: Smooth and Striated Spaces for Being Becoming Performances (Anne B. Reinertsen, Louise M. Thomas)....Pages 1-11 Territories and Categories of Academic Writer: Possibilizing Through the Act/Art of Writing (Louise M. Thomas)....Pages 13-29 The End of Criticism Producing Unconscious: Non-personal Activist Academic Writing (Anne B. Reinertsen)....Pages 31-54 Editing Academic Writing: Productive Erosion and Corrosive Processes (Felicity McArdle)....Pages 55-74 Being Ourselves, Naming Ourselves, Writing Ourselves: Indigenous Australian Women Disrupting What It Is to Be Academic Within the Academy (Bronwyn Fredericks, Nereda White, Sandra Phillips, Tracey Bunda, Marlene Longbottom, Debbie Bargallie)....Pages 75-96 Academic Writing from the Depths: An Autoethnographic and Organisational Account (Agnes Bosanquet)....Pages 97-113 Working with Text(-ures) in Academia: Be Fast, Even While Standing Still! (Ninni Sandvik, Ann Sofi Larsen, Nina Johannesen, Bente Ulla)....Pages 115-134 Making Sense of Reflexivity: A Posthumanistic Account (Nina Lunkka, Katja Sutela)....Pages 135-149 Technical Female: A Gender Studies Academic in Silicon Valley (Melissa Gregg)....Pages 151-167 Writing Together at a Distance (Linda Henderson, Louise M. Thomas)....Pages 169-193 A Democratic Ontology of Knowledge, All of Us Slipping Out the Back Door (Anne B. Reinertsen, Louise M. Thomas)....Pages 195-199 Back Matter ....Pages 201-209