'Publish or perish' has become the endemic struggle for survival within global academia, including New Zealand, affecting established academics, as well as new entrants, such as doctoral students. This article takes a neo-Bourdieusian approach, which, on the one hand, explains how writing visibility and measurability dominates the writing…

With continuing pressure to publish or perish, interventions such as writing groups are increasingly part of the academic landscape. In this paper, we discuss our writing group's experiment with collaborative writing, which came unstuck as simmering concerns led to a mutiny within the group. The mutiny provided insights into tensions that are…