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Partaking of Pleasure

Regenerating the Working Lives of University Academics

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Producing Pleasure in the Contemporary University

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Universities are fascinating places to work. A “provocative social cocktail” (Symes, 2004, p. 395) is one particularly apt description, although for some, the fascination could be ironically expressed as a reaction to the giddying changes and restructures and revisionings that define the contemporary university.

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    Marcus K. Harmes

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    Patrick Alan Danaher

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    Patrick Alan Danaher

  4. University of Southern Queensland, Australia

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    Patrick Alan Danaher

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    Patrick Alan Danaher

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Harmes, M.K., Danaher, P.A., Riddle, S. (2017). Partaking of Pleasure. In: Riddle, S., Harmes, M.K., Danaher, P.A. (eds) Producing Pleasure in the Contemporary University. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-179-7_1

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