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

Author/creator Downing, David B., 1947-
Format Book
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005.
Descriptionx, 326 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-312) and index.
LCCN 2005006605
ISBN0803217307 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780803217300

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