Academic Writing and Identity Constructions (eBook)

Louise Thomas is a consultant in Educational Leadership, and Honorary Fellow of the Australian Catholic University, Australia. Her research interests include identity constructions of teachers, leaders and researchers.Anne Reinertsen is Professor in Education, Practical Knowledge and Philosophy at Queen Maud University College, Norway. Her research interests include philosophical and qualitative research, research methodologies and learning theories.

Chapter 1. Stepping into the flow... Li(f)ve decomforting academic writing: smooth and striated spaces for being becoming performances; Anne B. Reinertsen and Louise M. Thomas.- Chapter 2. Territories and categories of academic writer: Possibilitising through the act/art of writing; Louise M. Thomas.- Chapter 3. The end of criticism producing unconscious: Non-personal academic writing; Anne B. Reinertsen.- Chapter 4. Editing academic writing: Productive erosion and erosive processes; Felicity McArdle.- Chapter 5. Being ourselves, naming ourselves, writing ourselves: Indigenous Australian women disrupting what it is to be academic within the Academy; Bronwyn Fredericks and Nereda White (with Sandra Phillips, Tracey Bunda, Marlene Longbottom and Debbie Bargallie).- Chapter 6. Academic writing from the depths: An auto-ethnographic and organisational account; Agnes Bosanquet.- Chapter 7. Working with text(ures) in academia: Be fast, even while standing still!; Ninni Sandvik, Ann Sofi Larsen, Nina Johannesen and Bente Ulla.- Chapter 8. Making sense of reflexivity: A post-humanistic account; Nina Lunkka and Katja Sutela.- Chapter 9. Becoming a technical female: Academic writing in the cube farm; Melissa Gregg.