3. Negotiating Alternative Discourses in Academic Writing and Publishing: Risks with Hybridity

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Acronyms and Abbreviations ix
5. Contributors xi
6. Risk as Productive: Working with Dilemmas in the Writing of Research 1
7. Part 1: Deletion and Agency
8. 1. ‘Does My Experience Count?’ The Role of Experiential Knowledge in the Research Writing of Postgraduate Adult Learners 27
9. 2. A Lovely Imposition: The Complexity of Writing a Thesis in isiXhosa 48
10. Part 2: Strategies for Hybridity: Writing Together
11. 3. Negotiating Alternative Discourses in Academic Writing and Publishing: Risks with Hybridity 59
12. 4. Academic Writing and Research at an Afropolitan University: An International Student Perspective 100
13. Part 3: Pedagogies that Invite the Edge
14. 5. Rehearsing ‘the Postgraduate Condition’ in Writers’ Circles 131
15. 6. Genre: A Pigeonhole or a Pigeon? Case Studies of the Dilemmas Posed by the Writing of Academic Research Proposals 148
16. 7. Of House and Home: Reflections on Knowing and Writing for a ‘Southern’ Postgraduate Pedagogy 166
17. Part 4: Reading the World in Students’ Writing
18. 8. ‘Error’ or Ghost Text? Reading, Ethnopoetics and Knowledge Making 203
19. 9. ‘It Was Hardly about Writing’: Translations of Experience on Entering Postgraduate Studies 219
20. Part 5: Peripheral Vision: Reflections from North and South
21. 10. Resonances, Resistances and Relations: Reflecting on the Politics of Risk in Academic Knowledge Making 237
22. 11. Both Dead and Alive: Schrödinger’s Cat in the Contact Zone 245
23. Index 252