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The PhD program: between conformity and reflexivity

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Raineri, Nicolas [UCL]

This paper seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the impact on doctoral education attributable to performativity pressures in academia by exploring the practices associated with the production of academic knowledge within the doctoral process. While focusing upon an under-researched area ― doctoral training vis-à-vis (improvement of) economic and academic performance in a 'knowledge society' ―, it tries to make an original theoretical contribution using connections between Foucault’s and Bourdieu’s literatures within the context of an academic setting. It mobilises and develops the notions of rite of passage, performativity, habitus, disciplinary techniques and technologies of the self, to examine the conditions within which PhD students somatise the ways and customs through their engagement in academia. The paper also offers a conceptual model that can be extended and applied to other normative contexts.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Publication date 2013
Language Anglais
Journal information "Journal of Organizational Ethnography" - Vol. 2, no.1, p. 37-56 (2013)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. (Bingley)
issn 2046-6749
e-issn 2046-6757
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/LouRIM - Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations
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Bibliographic reference Raineri, Nicolas. The PhD program: between conformity and reflexivity. In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 2, no.1, p. 37-56 (2013)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/166117