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The audit-culture approach to measuring academic writing for publication is, by current Australian policy definitions at least, fairly straightforward: count the number and ‘quality’ of publications produced within a specified timeframe, enter into the relevant database. We argue in this chapter that such a view eclipses the ‘invisible’ work of writing. Presenting a narrative exploration of our writing as a group of women academics, our aim is to articulate and render ‘visible’ the ‘invisible’ work that produces an academic article. Our discussion is framed by an institutional ethnographical approach, where we argue that these connected everyday ‘invisible’ practices are both assembled and disassembled through the structures of the neoliberal university, that may paradoxically also produce space for disrupting audit cultures.
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Margaret Thornton, “Inhabiting the Neoliberal University,” Alternative Law Journal 38 (2013) 72; Michael A. Peters, “Managerialism and the Neoliberal University,” Psychosociological Issues in Human Resource Management 5 (2013) 15.
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Marie L. Campbell and Marjorie L. Devault, “Dorothy E. Smith”, in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists, ed. George Ritzer and Jeffrey Stepnisky (Maiden, MA: 2011), 279.
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Carolyn Ellis, Tony E. Adams, and Arthur P. Bochner, “Autoethnography – An Overview,” Forum: Qualitative Social Research 1 (2011) 1.
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Heewon Chang, Faith. W Ngunjiri and Kathy-Ann C. Hernandez, Collaborative Autoethnography. (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2013).
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Campbell and Devault, 281.
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Campbell and Devault, 282.
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Carolyn Baker, “Membership Categorization and Interview Accounts,” in Qualitative Research, ed. David Silverman, 2nd ed. (London: Sage, 2004), 130.
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Carolyn Baker, 163.
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Dorothy E. Smith, “Resisting Institutional Capture as a Research Practice,” in Our Studies, Ourselves: Sociologists’ Lives and Work, ed. Barry Glassner and Rosanna Hertz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 151.
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Amanda Burgess-Proctor, “Methodological and Ethical Issues in Feminist Research with Abused Women,” Women’s Studies International Forum, 48 (2015) 126.
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Paul Sutton, “Lost Souls? The Demoralization of Academic Labour in the Measured University,” Higher Education Research & Development 36 (2017) 629.
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Catherine Manathunga et al., “Rendering the Paradoxes and Pleasures of Academic Life: Using Images, Poetry and Drama to Speak Back to the Measured University,” Higher Education Research & Development 36 (2017) 528.
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Manathunga et al., 530.
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Tuinamuana, K., Bentley-Williams, R., Yoo, J. (2019). Making ‘Visible’ the ‘Invisible’ Work of Academic Writing in an Audit Culture. In: Bottrell, D., Manathunga, C. (eds) Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume I. Palgrave Critical University Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95942-9_11
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