Re/constructing the subject : tactical textual uptakes
- Publication Type:
- Thesis
- Issue Date:
- 2000
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NO FULL TEXT AVAILABLE. Access is restricted indefinitely. ----- This essay tracks a professional journey of one contemporary academic as inscribed
in a collection of publications. A PhD by publication involves submitting a body of
published writings accompanied by a linking essay that provides a theoretical
coherence to the writings.
In this instance the theoretical coherence has to engage with a diversity of
publications — instructional texts, government reports, occasional papers as well as
more conventional academic writing such as scholarly book chapters and journal
articles. The publications were produced in various institutional sites involving very
different work and textual practices.
The focus of the essay is therefore on the multiplicity of textual practices of the
contemporary academic subject. It argues that the multiple textual practices have
not been generated arbitrarily, but are connected to specific programs of
government, organised within particular kinds of ‘ceremonial places’, each of which
comprises specific rituals that require specific textual uptakes. These are mediated
through institutional practices and contribute to the construction of particular kinds
of legitimate knowledge and particular kinds of academic subjects.
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