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Facing Inwards and Outwards at Once: The liminal temporalities of academic perfomativity
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Abstract Through metaphor (as ever), we explore some aspects of the mutually implicated con-text, ideo-text, ego-text and sub-text to be found in the contemporary UK academic lifeworld. To this end, carefully selected data from a qualitative study of the chang... view more
Through metaphor (as ever), we explore some aspects of the mutually implicated con-text, ideo-text, ego-text and sub-text to be found in the contemporary UK academic lifeworld. To this end, carefully selected data from a qualitative study of the changing nature of academic work in Britain is analysed to speculate about how a discourse of performativity (‘the RAE’) has been ‘translated’ into what appear to be ‘normalized’ legitimate forms of organizing and social action. By illustrating how these forms are reflected in academics’ liminal ‘work talk’, it emerges that one possible effect of this holographic process is a spatio-temporal constriction of the academic ‘lifeworld’.... view less
Classification
Research, Research Organization
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Free Keywords
academic work; audit culture; discourse analysis; holograms; organizing artefacts; temporal rhythms;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2005
Page/Pages
p. 303-321
Journal
Time & Society, 14 (2005) 2-3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X05055140
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)