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Regimes of performance: practices of the normalised self in the neoliberal university

John MorrisseyDepartment of Geography, National University of Ireland, Galway, IrelandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 614-634 | Received 10 Jul 2012, Accepted 23 Aug 2013, Published online: 07 Nov 2013

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