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Notes from an Inquiry into Contingent Work.

  • Published In: Substance: A Review of Theory & Literary Criticism, 2024, v. 53, n. 1. P. 3 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Demar, Olive 3 of 3

Abstract

Drawing on Marxist and psychoanalytic frameworks, I collect notes and reflections about the experience of contingent work in the Writing Center at Amherst College, a private liberal arts college in the United States. Taking the tradition of workers' inquiry as a source of inspiration and point of departure, I chart the material relations of the job alongside its social and affective dimensions. Connecting the form that writing takes (in classrooms and scholarly publishing) to the political economic relations of higher education, I reframe writing as a means to make sense of experience rather than as a mode of professionalized conversation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Substance: A Review of Theory & Literary Criticism. 2024/01, Vol. 53, Issue 1, p3
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Education
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0049-2426
  • DOI:10.1353/sub.2024.a924139
  • Accession Number:176509974
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