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The Space of Academia: Privilege, Agency and the Erasure of Affect

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Privilege, Agency and Affect

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Understanding how affect operates is central to understanding higher education. The dominant discourse of affectless rationality is important in structuring the rewards accorded to particular forms of academic work, notably research, and in the hierarchical power accorded to disciplines and specialisms within disciplines. It is also essential to the maintenance of newer forms of power represented in the culture of audit and managerialism, whose logics are presented as rational.

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Clegg, S. (2013). The Space of Academia: Privilege, Agency and the Erasure of Affect. In: Privilege, Agency and Affect. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137292636_5

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