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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.
Price: $110.99
Pages: 312
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Date:
01 February 2021
ISBN: 9781789739121
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
EDUCATION / Higher, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Research
'Hurry, hurry, hurry. Cramming work into the seemingly ever pacier rhythms of academic life. We have to wonder what this means for thinking and for the community upon which university learning is built. From a wide range of perspectives, this brilliantly curated collection of pieces avoids the obvious and brings forward the deep-rooted politics of time within the university. This book might seem like yet another thing to add to an unwieldy reading pile or another item to scribble on an anxiety producing “to do” list, but it will be worth it, not least because it will put those pressures into context and will allow the reader some space to reflect upon them.'
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.
Academic Timescapes in Focus; Barbara Adam
Introduction: On Times, Scapes and Chronosolidarity in Academia; Filip Vostal
Chapter 1. Time and the Rhythms of Academia: A Rhythmanalytical Perspective; Michel Alhadeff-Jones
Chapter 2. Rhythm and the Possible: Moments, Anticipation and Dwelling in the Contemporary University; Fadia Dakka
Chapter 3. Cultural Rhythmics inside Academic Temporalities; Gonzalo Iparraguirre
Intermezzo I: Alice in Academia; Katrina Roszynsi
Chapter 4. Temporal Navigation in Academic Work: Experiences of Early Career Academics; Oili-Helena Ylijoki
Chapter 5. Academic Times, Shortcuts, and Styles: Exploring the Case of Time for a PhD from a Gender Perspective; Emilia Araujo, Catarina Sales Oliveira, Liliana Rentiera, Kadydja Chagas
Chapter 6. Metrics as Time-saving Devices; Lai Ma
Chapter 7. Time and Academic Multi-tasking: Unbounded Relation Between Professional and Personal Time; Teresa Carvalho and Sarah Diogo
Chapter 8. Trading Time: A Hauntological Investigation; Petya Burneva
Chapter 9. Pace, Space and Well-Being: Containing Anxiety in the University; Maggie O'Neill
Intermezzo II: Interview with Jiri Skala
Chapter 10. Time as a Judgement Device: How Time Matters when Reviewers Assess Application for ERC Starting and Consolidator Grants; Ruth Mueller
Chapter 11. Time, the University and Stratification: The Historical Making of Institutional Time as a Strategic
Resource; Alexander Mitterle
Chapter 12. The Temporalities of the Writing Experience of Part-Time Doctoral Researchers in Education; Phil Wood and Joan Woodhouse
Chapter 13. On the Chronopolitics of Academic CVs in Peer Review; Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Sarah de Rijcke, Ruth Mueller and Isabel Burner-Fritsch
The temporal fabric of academic lives: Of weaving, repairing and resisting; Ulrike Felt