Writing power: Intellectuals, legitimacy, and the making of knowledge - Hardcover

Burton, Saorfhlaith Victoria Alexandra

 
9781526169327: Writing power: Intellectuals, legitimacy, and the making of knowledge
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1526169320 ISBN 13: 9781526169327
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Writing power radically rethinks the place of the canon and canonicity as objects and concepts in contemporary academia and the everyday intellectual practices of academics. It is distinctive in its demonstration of how academics' engagements with canons shape their writing practices but also how scholars' writing practices, spaces, proclivities, and desires shape the canon and changing ideas of value in canonicity. The book thinks through frequently discussed problems of legitimacy and knowledge production from fresh perspectives of lived experience and the everyday to offer new insights into the politics of knowledge in contemporary social sciences.

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Saorfhlaith Victoria Alexandra Burton is Lecturer in Criminology at Robert Gordon University

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Associated with ‘gleaming spires’ and ‘ivory towers’, academia has often been seen as a space for social and cultural elites where the knowledge produced is disconnected from, if not outright disdainful of, the ‘real world’.

This book explores the forms of power that shape academic knowledge production. Looking specifically at the case of British sociology, and doing so through its modes, styles, and everyday practices of writing, the book examines how certain forms of writing are deployed to assert intellectual legitimacy and claim an elevated rung on the knowledge hierarchy. It offers a rich and personal ethnographic examination of the structural, intellectual, and affective factors which shape the way sociologists write and the knowledge they produce.

Writing power details how academics and intellectuals engage with the politics of writing in order to position themselves within the politics of knowledge. The book argues for a more textured approach to understanding power relations in the field of knowledge production through its demonstrations of how scholars use their writing and writing practices to narrate themselves into legitimacy and position themselves with value in both disciplinary and wider intellectual spaces.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526169320
ISBN 13 
9781526169327
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
206
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