The knowledge contract politics and paradigms in the academic workplace / David B. Downing.

Author/creator Downing, David B., 1947-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press,
Descriptionx, 326 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 295-312) and index.
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LCCN 2005006605
ISBN9780803217300 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0803217307 (cloth : alk. paper)

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