Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education

Neoliberal Policies of Funding and Management

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Suman Gupta, Jernej Habjan, Hrvoje Tutek

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This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher educationand research work that are underway today havenot only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually beproducing unemployment both for those within academia and forgraduate job-seekers in other sectors. Recent and current re-organisations of higher education and researchwork, and re-orientations of academic life (as students, researchers, teachers)generally, which are taking place around the world, achieve exactly theopposite of what they claim: though ostensibly undertaken to facilitateemployment, these moves actually produce unemployment both for those withinacademia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-06-17
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt463 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Critical University Studies
Antal sidor252
Upplaga16001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137493231

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Suman Gupta isChair in Literature and Cultural History at The Open University, UK. His published books include Re-ReadingHarry Potter (2003, 2009), SocialConstructionist Identity Politics and Literary Studies (2007), Imagining Iraq (2011), Consumable Textsin Contemporary India (2015) and Philologyand Global English Studies (2015).JernejHabjan is Research Fellow at the literary institute of the Research Centre ofthe Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia. He has co-edited, with JessicaWhyte, (Mis)readings of Marx in ContinentalPhilosophy (2014).Hrvoje Tutek is Lecturer in American Literature at theUniversity of Zagreb, Croatia. He is currently finishing his dissertation in the DFG research group ‘Globalization and Literature’ at the Universityof Munich. He was an active participant in the 2009Croatian student protests against state budget cuts aimed at publicuniversities.

Introduction, - 1. The Implausible Knowledge Triangle of the Western Balkans, - 2. Human and Inhuman Capital, and Schooling: The Case of Slovenia, - 3. Privatising Minds: New Educational Policies in India, - 4. 'Academic Leadership' and the Conditions of Academic Work, - 5. Not Working: Shared Services and the Production of Unemployment, - 6. Graduate Unemployment in Post-haircut Cyprus: Where Have all the Students Gone?, - 7.'Dare to Dare: Academic Pedagogy in Times of Flattened Hierarchies, - 8. Cannibalising the Collegium: The Plight of the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Managerial University, 9. Between Career Progression and Career Stagnation: Casualisation, Tenure and the Contract of Indefinite Duration in Ireland, - 10. Are University Stuggles Worth Fighting?, - 11. You're Either a Flower in the Dustbin or the Spark that Lights a Fire: On Precarity and Student Protests, - 12. Whither Critical Scholarship in the Modern University? Critique, Radical Democracy and Counter-Hegemony, -13. Academics as Workers: From Career Management to Class Analysis and Collective Action