“Don't Take Your Guns to Town”
Academic/Administrative Life as the Old West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21206273 |
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| Authors | B K Alexander (0000-0001-7382-6696, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 270-279 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-8447 • E-ISSN: 1940-8455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/irqr.2015.8.3.270 |
| OpenAlex | W2299917501 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This performative essay explores how the author's childhood obsession with Westerns and cowboy/Indian movies bleed into his current life as an academic and particularly in his current role as an academic dean. The essay is structured with a series of comparative images between Westerns and academic/administrative life
Aesthetics · Art · Bleed · Literature · Media studies · Performative utterance · Sociology · Visual arts · Critical Race Theory in Education · History · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Highly cited | No |
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