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Issues of power have long occupied academics. Interpersonal dynamics, institutional workings and the relationships between power, knowledge and control have been the subject of copious study and theorising. However, this scrutiny is less commonly extended to the site of academia itself.
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Gillies, V., Lucey, H. (2007). Introduction. In: Gillies, V., Lucey, H. (eds) Power, Knowledge and the Academy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287013_1
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