Inquiring into Academic Timescapes - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1789739128 ISBN 13 : 9781789739121

Editeur : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021

Synopsis

Proliferating literature claims that academia is in a critical condition, generating armies of anxious, neurotic and time-hungry individuals which are governed by the speed imperatives integral to a modernist and capitalist rationality. This book puts the temporal ordering of academic life under the microscope, and showcases the means of yielding a better understanding of how time and temporality act both as instruments of power and vulnerability within the academic space.
This book brings together more than three dozen scholars who collectively craft a much-needed nuanced sociologically-driven perspective of temporalities in academia. Delving into contemporary processes which are quintessentially temporal in their character, such as the increasing precariousness of jobs among junior scholars, the prevalence of grant funding, the role of evaluation systems, and the political economy of higher education, the authors offer a forensic analysis of the complex nature of academic temporalities as experienced, understood, controlled, managed and contested in various academic and research contexts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Filip Vostal is a Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. His research encompasses sociology of time, science & technology studies (STS) and contemporary social and cultural theory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789739128
• ISBN 13: 9781789739121
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Vostal Filip
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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