Agency as Discursive Practice: From “nobody” to “somebody” as an international student in AustraliaFootnote1

1. My title was modelled after the theme and title of Bronwyn Davies's Agency as a form of discursive practice: A classroom scene observed (1990). A version of this paper appeared in Kettle (Citation2004a).

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