Power is everywhere. But what is it and how does it infuse personal and institutional relationships in higher education? Power, Knowledge and the Academy: The Institutional is Political takes a close-up and critical look at both the elusive and blatant workings and consequences of power in a range of everyday sites in universities. Authors work with multi-layered conceptions of power to disturb the idea of the academy as a haven of detached reason and instead reveal the ways in which power shape

First Author: Gillies, Val; Lucey, Helen

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Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Power, Knowledge and the Academy: The Institutional is Political (2007)

ISBN: 9781403998170