Identity Construction as a Spatiotemporal Phenomenon within Doctoral Students' Intellectual and Academic Identities: Contradictions, Contestations and Convergences

Investigating the interplay between space, time and identity construction, this book brings to focus how spatiality and temporality have been largely overlooked in the study and theorisation of identity construction.

Offering Gloria Anzaldúa concept of ‘conocimento’ as a theoretical tool for analysing identity construction, the book investigates how doctoral students hold varying assumptions about their intellectual identity, where the doctoral process enables them to deconstruct and reconst...