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Discourses of Denial: The Rhetoric of American Academic Labor (Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse) - Softcover

Book 10 of 16: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse

Discenna, Thomas

 
9780367365769: Discourses of Denial: The Rhetoric of American Academic Labor (Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse)
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ISBN 10: 0367365766 ISBN 13: 9780367365769
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Discourses of Denial explores the myriad ways that the labor of those employed by universities is situated as somehow distinct from ordinary labor. Focusing on a variety of sites where academic labor is discursively constructed in popular consciousness including among the professoriate itself, its critics and detractors, the unionization struggles of graduate students, the invisibility of contingent academics and the resistance to the unionization of student athletes. Merging Critical Rhetoric (CR) with Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) this study examines myth that "academic work is not the same as other labor" (Pason, 2011, p. 1786). The denial of academic labor functions to underwrite an attack on labor in all of its variations producing what Berardi (2009) calls a "new kind of worker [who] value[s] labor as the most interesting part of his or her life and therefore no longer opposes the prolongation of the working day but is actually ready to lengthen it out of personal choice and will" (p. 79). The professoriate is, therefore, not a retrograde figure of more genteel times but the emblematic figure of late capitalism’s transition to cognitive labor and with it an unceasing colonization of the human lifeworld.

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About the Author

Thomas A. Discenna is Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism where he teaches courses in the philosophy of communication, rhetorical theory and criticism and discourse analysis. His work has appeared in the International Journal of Communication, the Western Journal of Communication, Rhetorica and Communication Quarterly.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367365766
ISBN 13 
9780367365769
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
204