Collaborative writing ‘betwixt and between’ sits jaggedly against traditional regimes of authorship

Gail Crimmins; Alison L Black; Janice K Jones; Sarah Loch; Julianne Impiccini

doi:10.52086/001c.25110

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Collaborative writing ‘betwixt and between’ sits jaggedly against traditional regimes of authorship

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Collaborative writing ‘betwixt and between’ sits jaggedly against traditional regimes of authorship

Gail Crimmins, Alison L Black, Janice K Jones, Sarah Loch and Julianne Impiccini

Text, Vol.22(1), pp.1-15

2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52086/001c.25110

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Education Assessment and Evaluation

Gender Specific Studies

collaborative writing

feminism

new materialism

UniSC Diversity Area - Gender Equity

In the context of academic financialisation where writing is 'repurposed' as an outcome designed to maximise financial profit, and to resist the pressure to be 'careless' (Lynch 2010) 'ideal functionaries' (Pereira 2012), we - a group of five women academics - come together to share stories of our accrued wisdom about living in the afternoon of our lives. We also share our creative writing and theorising about collaborative writing processes in papers, chapters, and conference presentations. As we do so, we encounter a conflict between our practice of inter-personal collaboration and the traditions and pressures of academic authorship where we are expected to publish in a vertical hierarchy of (first author, nameless et al.s, date). We therefore reflect on the paradoxes and tensions involved in collaborative writing within the academy. In particular, we explore how co-operative practice congruent with the philosophical framework of new materialism sits jaggedly against an academic culture of individualism, surveillance, audit, and the pressure for academics to (be seen to) publish. We offer no conclusion or easy resolution, but like Socratic 'gadflies' we seek to trouble the structural impediments to collaborative writing in the academy

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Title: Collaborative writing ‘betwixt and between’ sits jaggedly against traditional regimes of authorship
Authors: Gail Crimmins (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Alison L Black (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Janice K Jones (Author) - University of Southern Queensland
Sarah Loch (Author)
Julianne Impiccini (Author)
Publication details: Text, Vol.22(1), pp.1-15
Publisher: Australian Association of Writing Programs
Date published: 2018
DOI: 10.52086/001c.25110
ISSN: 1327-9556
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451341102621
Output Type: Journal article

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