Academic writing from the depths: an autoethnographic and organisational account

Agnes Bosanquet

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01674-6

Academic writing from the depths: an autoethnographic and organisational account

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In “Birds, Women and Writing”, Cixous (2004) refers to opening “the back door of thought” (p. 169), a place where the unthought, the risky and the impossible can be imagined. She suggests that writing comes from “deep inside” this space: “Somewhere in my stomach, my womb” (p. 172). What becomes possible when academic writing acknowledges the depths? From a critical feminist perspective, this chapter explores the troublesome subjectivities, temporalities and spatialities of being an academic writer in the imaginary space of the academy. First: I write from (and for) myself. Second: I write from (and for) a university.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Academic writing and identity constructions
Subtitle of host publication	performativity, space and territory in academic workplaces
Editors	Louise M. Thomas, Anne B. Reinertsen
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	6
Pages	97-113
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030016746
ISBN (Print)	9783030016739
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01674-6
Publication status	Published - 2019

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academic writing
academic identities
autoethnography

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Academic writing from the depths : an autoethnographic and organisational account. / Bosanquet, Agnes.

Academic writing and identity constructions: performativity, space and territory in academic workplaces. ed. / Louise M. Thomas; Anne B. Reinertsen. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. p. 97-113.

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