Writing for Publication

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Writing for Various Academic Purposes and Genres

   • Leon Benade, Georgina Tuari Stewart, Nesta Devine

   Pages 1-15

3. Becoming an Academic Differently: On Not Following the Rules

   • Jane Gilbert

   Pages 17-29

4. Standpoint, Style and Self in Writing

   • Nesta Devine

   Pages 31-39

5. Writing as a Māori/Indigenous Method of Inquiry

   • Georgina Tuari Stewart

   Pages 41-54

6. How I Was Found by the Poem, in the Academe

   • Adrian Schoone

   Pages 55-71

7. ‘More Adequate’ Research: Affect, Sensation, and Thought in Research and Writing

   • Ingrid Boberg

   Pages 73-84

8. Transgressing Boundaries: Liminal Experiences in First-Person Research

   • Neil Boland

   Pages 85-96

9. Collaborating in Writing: Crossing the Threshold

   • L. Maurice Alford, Emma McFadyen, Akiko Nozue

   Pages 97-109

10. Impostorism: Traversing Liminal Spaces as an Early Career Academic

    • Charmaine Bright

    Pages 111-126

11. Qualities in the Medium of Academic Writing

    • Ruth Boyask

    Pages 127-139

12. Being an Author in the Digital Economy

    • Leon Benade

    Pages 141-163

This book focuses on academic writing and how academics who are experts in their fields can translate their expertise into publishable form. The magnitude and speed of the changes that are transforming the global academic landscape produce an ongoing need for literature that interprets the nature of academic work. This book arises from the background discipline of Education, which is a relatively new university subject that draws on the entire knowledge spectrum from the fine arts to the natural sciences. Each chapter addresses an aspect of the conditions of written academic labour in an age of digital publishing: its nature, how it works, and guidance for successful navigation. This book will provide helpful guidance to graduate students, researchers and teachers in universities and higher education, who are united by the challenges of this new world of academic publishing.

• economy of academic labour
• school-based critical ethnography
• Māori academic writing
• collective ethics for collaborative practice
• writing postionality
• poetic inquiry
• disrupting methodological convention
• the affective researcher
• imposter syndrome
• becoming an academic through poststructural thinking
• resisting micro-technologies of power

“The volume also offers commentaries on approaches to scholarly writing. … The chapters illuminate productive ways forward for readers committed to considering their power and their places … within the broader scholarly ecosystem. By offering pathways of empowerment and of resistance, as well, the chapters reward readers outside New Zealand or Australasia with a sense of progressivism that repositions the antipodes as an intellectual centre, at least as far as writing for scholarly publication is concerned.” (Steven E. Gump, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Vol. 53 (4), October, 2022)

“The book holds its own as a surprisingly engaging read which gives you a real insight into the reality of academic writing and publishing. On another level, the book itself stands as a model for academic writing in the twenty-frst century and how to navigate the pressures placed on researchers.” (Taylor Alexander Hughson, New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 56, 2021) “There is no question that this book opens up new conversations about the diversity of genres in academic writing: genres following a pluralistic view, not necessarily following the rules, and supporting that there is no right way for academic writing! Many examples in the book encourage the Foucalt notion of ‘resistance’ by being honest and true to one’s self in writing, whilst acknowledging that we stand on the shoulders of giants before us. Several chapters encourage writing that has “more to do with the heart, the body, the spirit” (Schoone, Chapter 5) and becoming more affective as researchers and writers. The book is replete with examples appreciating and encouraging creation of new ways. Such ways suggested might involve stepping over boundaries (liminality), addressing impostor syndrome tendencies, embracing an evolving and fluid writing identity through adopting practices like contemplative inquiry and creative molecular thinking, and valuing collaboration at a discursive level to encourage openness to learning via shared understandings and considering different viewpoints. The diversity of genre that are explored (with outstanding examples in many chapters) include: post-qualitative inquiry and poststructuralist philosophies working together with the principles of New Zealand indigenous Kaupapa Māori theory using ‘writing as a method of inquiry’ for radical ideas and political aspirations; poetry as academic text; experiential exploration through art critique; and ‘truth telling’ -  being able to tell others how the writer experiences life using the context of music and meditation as an example. No matter what genre is adopted, the final chapter in the book offers sound, practical, advice about pitfalls and opportunities with writing in the digital economy.”  (July, 2020) – Eileen Piggot-Irvine, Adjunct Professor Griffith University, Australia and Royal Roads University, Canada

• School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

  Georgina Tuari Stewart, Nesta Devine, Leon Benade

​Georgina Tuari Stewart is an Associate Professor in Te Kura Mātauranga School of Education, at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in Aotearoa New Zealand. Researches topics at the overlap between knowledge, culture and education, e.g. Māori science education, biculturalism, bilingualism and Māori philosophy. Recently completed a Marsden funded research project to investigate doctoral theses written entirely in te reo Māori. Co-Editor of Springer journal New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies (NZJES), and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (JRSNZ) and Educational Philosophy and Theory (EPAT). New book: Māori Philosophy: Indigenous Thinking from Aotearoa (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Nesta Devine is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. As an immigrant she is interested in the interplay of ethnicities and cultures in our society, and consequently focuses on ideas concerning power and subjectivity in educational institutions. She is a Fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, Co-Editor of the New Zealand Journal of Teachers’ Work, Reviews editor of New Zealand Journal of Education Research, Editor of the Royal Bhutan Journal of Education and Development, and Associate Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory.


Leon Benade is an Associate Professor in the School of Education of the Auckland University of Technology. His research interests are teachers' work, school policy, ethics, philosophy in schools, critical pedagogy, and the New Zealand Curriculum, with a current focus on Innovative Learning Environments (ILE). Leon is a co-editor of the New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies and the New Zealand Journal of Teachers’ Work. He is author of From Technicians to Teachers: Ethical Teaching in the Context of Globalized Education Reform (Continuum, 2012) and Being aTeacher in the 21st Century: A Critical New Zealand Study (Springer, 2017).

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