The Criminal in the Academy: best essay title on practice-based

As I am wrangling with my frakking thesis development, I found this PDF
Position Papers on Practice-Based Research:

http://www.ncad.ie/research/downloads/position_papers_on_practice.pdf

There The Criminal in the Academy:Practice Based Research as a Form of Theft. deserves title of the year award.

In that paper, Dr. Paula Gilligan argues that:

For socially engaged practitioners, the relationship with the academy is worth examining.
The radical element of the practice becomes appropriated by the academy and is removed from the
domain of public cultures to be re-packaged in endless academic texts as art and high-culture for
bourgeois spectator/student. The work thus becomes an instrument of the domination and symbolic
violence the practitioner might have initially sought to resist.

Well said. I will keep reading, as I am walking through the mud of my research thesis.