Austerity politics and labour reforms in Spain have intensified the precaritization of employment, both inside and outside academia. Drawing on the cases of two highly educated young women, this paper suggests an analysis of academic precarity that focuses on the intertwining of the academic and the non‐academic world of work in (re)producing precarity. In Spain, a less precarious alternative to precarity in academia is often nonexistent, putting young academics in a situation of blackmail to accept precarious conditions. Consequently, precarity is increasingly normalised. Yet, the process of the normalisation of precarity is understood not only as the growth of precarious jobs and the lack of alternatives, but, more fundamentally, as a shift in the perception of what can be legitimately claimed or expected within employment relations more generally.
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Crisis, austerity and the normalisation of precarity in Spain – in academia and beyond
Corinne Schwaller
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Letter
- Pages:
- 33–47 (15 total)
Politics of precarity
neoliberal academia under austerity measures and authoritarian threat
David Loher and Sabine Strasser
In recent years, precarity has become the norm rather than an exception in contemporary European academia. This special issue on politics of precarity examines the economic, social and political crisis‐effects of the neoliberal turn in academia. It analyses how austerity measures and authoritarian politics have led to a proliferation of precarity among, mostly young, scholars.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 5–14 (9 total)
Precarity without borders
visions of hope, shared responsibilities and possible responses
Georgeta Stoica, Julia Eckert, Katharina Bodirsky, and Dan V. Hirslund
This precarity debate intends to raise the following questions by proposing an introduction and three replies that come from tenured and non‐tenured track anthropologists. The aim is to think critically about precarity within academia:
What does it mean to be a precarious researcher in today's academia, which is ruled by a predatory system?
How can this situation be framed in terms of shared responsibilities?
Could solidarity and unionisation get us out of this situation?
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Commentary
- Pages:
- 78–96 (18 total)
Introduction
Global Dissonances—Bringing Class and Culture Back In
Allen Chun
The essays presented here stem for the most part from the conference New Cultural Formations in an Era of Transnational Globalization, held on October 6-7, 2001 at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Globalization is a phenomenon maybe as old as human history (especially if one reads Eric Wolf’s “History” religiously); if not, it is certainly synonymous with the rise of capitalism itself, exemplified by “the modern world system,” a term made famous by Immanuel Wallerstein. Yet, judging from the recent flurry of social scientific writing and academic debate on the topic, it might appear that globalization is a new phenomenon, rather than in the literature,3 just a misunderstood one. Whether globalization has just accelerated in recent years, as though as the result of increased time-space compression in David Harvey’s terms, or has mutated into a new form is a worthy topic of debate that has generated heated discussion.4 But in this regard, I think that there is currency for viewing contemporary globalization more constructively as a process of transnationalism. Thus, one is without doubt dealing here with a new or different kind of phenomenon, regardless of whether one regards it literally as a transcendent phenomenon predicated on nation-stateism or as a function of underlying systemic processes that have prompted coalescence of nations toward increased global integration or transparent fluidity. Time-space compression may have blurred our ability to capture the rapid nature of changes that have taken place globally, but this should not blind us from seeing that transnationalism is, in the first instance, less a continuation of an older globalization than a fundamental change in its systemic practices.
Intellectual endogamy in the university
The neoliberal regulation of academic work
Ana Luisa Muñoz-García
the ways funding and academic conversations get co-opted by a small group of scholars. One of the main problems they face is how to penetrate the intellectual endogamy of Chilean academia. The article is based on empirical research about academic
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 24–43 (20 total)
Less talk, more action
(Re)Organising universities in Aotearoa New Zealand
Aimee B. Simpson, Leon A. Salter, Rituparna Roy, Luke D. Oldfield, and Apriel D. Jolliffe Simpson
aspirations of a sustainably funded tertiary education system oriented towards the public good, rather than private profit. Firstly however, we briefly outline the neoliberal systemic pressures which have come to dominate academia in Aotearoa, creating a
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 100–118 (19 total)
Challenges faced by Iraqi academics in career advancement and promotion
A survey-based study
Zainab Atiyah Dakhil, Moatamn Skuk, and May Al-Jorani
lack of mentorship and support all contribute to hindering women's progress in academia in Iraq. To help women to successfully climb the academic ladder, we need to enhance mentorship and avoid burnout ( Zimmermann 2019 ). In Iraq, establishing part
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2024
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 107–121 (15 total)
Anthropological Reflections on Lebanese Art
How Empathy, the Human Rights Topos and Ideological Attitudes Interact with Aesthetic Perceptions
Gerald A. P.-Fromm and Bariaa Mourad
This article analyses attitudes of the art public related to subjects of the 2011 art exhibition 'Beirut', shown at the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. Some Lebanese artworks, especially those of the (pre-)war generation, were oriented towards utopias of their time and socio-political criticism, and still today revolve around the topoi of human rights. Socio-cultural milieux and institutions seem habited by adherents with congruent values. Art, science and education are thus particularly disputed fields since their common creative quests produce knowledge and, depending on the theme, ideology. We contextualise these topics and highlight a few empirically corroborated explanatory models developed by anthropology in order to elucidate the complex interplay between the individual and society. We appeal to those in academia, education and critical art to play a role in the debate on essential humanistic and ethical principles.
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 92–114 (23 total)
'Facing Outwards Anthropology Beyond Academia'
Apply at the ASA Decennial Conference, Edinburgh, June 2014
Rachael Gooberman-Hill
The ASA’s Network of Applied Anthropologists (Apply) held a panel session at the ASA’s decennial conference in Edinburgh, June 2014. Entitled ‘Facing Outwards: Anthropology Beyond Academia’, the panel welcomed papers that addressed anthropological work and co-work outside conventional academic anthropology. The session was convened by Mary Adams (Kings College London) and Rachael Gooberman-Hill (University of Bristol), and three presenters provided an engaged audience with examples of their work. The presentations fuelled discussion about relationships in research and practice and the translation of anthropological ideas for non-anthropological audiences.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2014
- Article Type:
- Meeting Report
- Pages:
- 42 (1 total)
William A. Gamson and His Legacy for Academia and Social Movements
Michelle I. Gawerc and David S. Meyer
Abstract
William A. Gamson's career was nothing less than remarkable. A prolific scholar, Gamson wrote at least eight books and more than a hundred articles from 1961 to 2014. And he bequeathed social movement studies substantial theoretical contributions and methodological innovations in numerous areas including coalitions, resource mobilization, political opportunities, framing, and culture. His legacy also includes pioneering simulation games both for teaching and for use by social movements, novel pedagogies (in part inspired by his wife, sociologist, Zelda Gamson), and a well-articulated scholar-activist model that has—and will continue—to inspire. This article discusses his extraordinary career and his legacy for social movements, academia, and beyond.