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Academic Literacies As Documenting Becoming Through Mixed Genre Texts, Ani Amirmooradian Malhami
Academic Literacies As Documenting Becoming Through Mixed Genre Texts, Ani Amirmooradian Malhami
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The research for this study began with certain poststructural and postmodern readings and philosophical inflections that suggested, in various ways, that subjectivities are fluid, multiple, and complex. I arrived at the idea that one way of capturing the complexities of subjectivities is documenting becoming; this insight, in turn, led me to investigate the literature on academics who experience problems with representing, and on models of writing in higher education. However, the literature does not locate either the problem of representing or its resolution in the practices of academics struggling to write about the world in and through their subjectivities. …