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Decentring the Author/Celebrating the Typist in Doctoral Thesis Acknowledgements
Re-imagining Doctoral Writing, pp.201-214
International Exchanges on the Study of Writing, University Press of Colorado
2021
Abstract
This chapter arises from a project that aimed to trace the presentation of an emerging academic self in thesis acknowledgements across New Zealand, Australia, and Japan. Here, we consider ways that acknowledgements, those marginal sections of the thesis text, decenter the individual author as sole producer of knowledge (Burke, 2012) and highlight the situated-ness of writing practices, thereby providing alternative imaginaries for doctoral writing. Unlike the main body of the thesis, which must present a legitimate academic authorial self, this peripheral element tends to be a back stage moment (Eik-Nes, 2008) that reveals affective dimensions and the everyday practices of writing and that recognises the involvement of others (people and things) in the research and writing process. Analysis of these texts-within-the-thesis-text enables a reading against the grain—giving insight into who/what else contributes to a thesis and revealing the entanglements of academic scholarship and writing (Barad, 2007).
Details
- Title
- Decentring the Author/Celebrating the Typist in Doctoral Thesis Acknowledgements
- Authors
- Frances Kelly (Author) - University of AucklandCatherine Manathunga (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre - LegacyMachi Sato (Author) - Kyoto University
- Contributors
- Cecile Badenhorst (Editor) - Memorial University of NewfoundlandBrittany Amell (Editor) - Carleton UniversityJames Burford (Editor) - La Trobe University
- Publication details
- Re-imagining Doctoral Writing, pp.201-214
- Series
- International Exchanges on the Study of Writing
- Publisher
- University Press of Colorado
- Date published
- 2021
- DOI
- 10.37514/INT-B.2021.1343.2.10; 10.37514/INT-B.2021.1343
- ISBN
- 9781642151350
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2021 Cecile Badenhorst, Brittany Amell, and James Burford and the authors of the individual parts of this book. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99584905802621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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