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In the present debate on the role played by the European university systems and the kind of knowledge they are called upon to produce and transmit, performativity is a category used by many scholars to comprehend the variety and inter–relationship of the factors involved. This paper will investigate the idea of performativity and its relationship with visibility to understand the forces, agents and discourses involved in those requests that touch upon the production of knowledge and the governance of university systems.
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D’ascanio, V. (2014). Performativity and Visibility. In: Vega, L. (eds) Empires, Post-Coloniality and Interculturality. The CESE Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-731-5_10
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