Power, Knowledge and the Academy
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Power, Knowledge and the Academy

The Institutional is Political

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Power, Knowledge and the Academy

The Institutional is Political

About this book

This book takes a close-up and critical look at both the elusive and blatant workings and consequences of power in a range of everyday sites in universities. Chapters focus on specific locations in which power shapes personal and institutional knowledge including student-supervisor relationships, research teams, networking, and literature reviews.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Notes on the Contributors
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 Power and the Unconscious in Doctoral Student-Supervisor Relationships
  6. 2 Power and the PhD Journey: ‘Getting in’ and ‘Getting on’
  7. 3 Ambivalent Positions: Ethnicity and Working in our ‘Own Communities’
  8. 4 Interweaving Academic and Professional Power in Higher Education
  9. 5 Power Relationships in Research Teams
  10. 6 Making the Right Connections: ‘Knowledge’ and Power in Academic Networking
  11. 7 Representing Academic Knowledge: The Micro Politics of a Literature Review
  12. 8 Measuring What’s Valued or Valuing What’s Measured? Knowledge Production and the Research Assessment Exercise
  13. 9 Feminism, the Relational Micro-Politics of Power and Research Management in Higher Education in Britain
  14. Index