Writing Power: Intellectuals, Legitimacy, and the Making of Knowledge (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526169327)

Writing power radically rethinks the place of the canon and canonicity as objects and concepts in contemporary academia and the everyday intellectual practices of academics. It is distinctive in its demonstration of how academics' engagements with canons shape their writing practices but also how scholars' writing practices, spaces, proclivities, and desires shape the canon and changing ideas of value in canonicity. The book thinks through frequently discussed problems of legitimacy and knowledge production from fresh perspectives of lived experience and the everyday to offer new insights into the politics of knowledge in contemporary social sciences.

Author: Sarah Victoria Alexandra Burton
ISBN-10: 1526169320
ISBN-13: 9781526169327
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2025
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover