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TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic tribes and territories
T2 - the theoretical trajectory
AU - Trowler, Paul
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This paper describes and reflects upon the Academic Tribes and Territories thesis as it has developed over 25 years and set out in two separate editions and a third book. The paper evaluates each of these books, setting out the developing thesis and in so doing describing a shift away from epistemological essentialism towards a more nuanced understanding of academic disciplines and their power. This is an understanding influenced by social practice theory and one which sees individual disciplines as constructed as well as enacted, with that construction influenced by contextual factors in academic departments, universities and more broadly.
AB - This paper describes and reflects upon the Academic Tribes and Territories thesis as it has developed over 25 years and set out in two separate editions and a third book. The paper evaluates each of these books, setting out the developing thesis and in so doing describing a shift away from epistemological essentialism towards a more nuanced understanding of academic disciplines and their power. This is an understanding influenced by social practice theory and one which sees individual disciplines as constructed as well as enacted, with that construction influenced by contextual factors in academic departments, universities and more broadly.
KW - Academic Tribes and Territories
KW - Culture of Disciplines
KW - Metaphor and Sciences
KW - Tony Becher
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 17
EP - 26
JO - Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaften
JF - Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaften
IS - 3
ER -