The knowledge contract : politics and paradigms in the academic workplace / David B. Downing.
| Author/creator | Downing, David B., 1947- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005. |
| Description | x, 326 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-312) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005006605 |
| ISBN | 0803217307 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780803217300 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | LB2361 .D69 2005 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |