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The Social Structures of Global Academia book cover

1st Edition

The Social Structures of Global Academia

Edited By Fabian Cannizzo, Nick Osbaldiston Copyright 2019
252 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge
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Higher education and research are now at the centre of economic and social policy in advanced information societies. Global networks of researchers, finance, students and policymakers invoke collaborative sociological perspectives. What it means to be an academic and to work in a technologically advanced knowledge industry has undergone transformations that cross national borders. The future of... Read more

1. An Introduction to the Social Structures of Global Academia Fabian Cannizzo and Nick Osbaldiston





Part I: Academic Ethics





2. The Public Good of Higher Education John Holmwood



3. Beyond the Academic Ethic Stephen Turner



4. Academic Service: Attachment, Belief and Hope Nick Osbaldiston, Fabian Cannizzo and Christian Mauri





Part II: Affective Cultures





5. Affective Infrastructures of Global Academia Mona Mannevuo and Elina Valovirta



6. Academic Craftwork: On Authenticity and Value in Academia Fabian Cannizzo



7. Happy in Academia: The Perspective of the Academic Elite Oili-Helena Ylijoki





Part III: Funding and Metrics





8. Early Career Academic and Evaluative Metrics: Ambivalence, Resistance and Strategies Gaby Haddow and Björn Hammarfelt



9. The Rise of Project Funding and its Effects on the Social Structure of Academia Thomas Franssen and Sarah de Rijcke



10. Racing for What? Anticipation and Acceleration in the Work and Career Practices of Academic Life Science Postdocs Ruth Müller





Part IV: Agency and Control





11. Formulating the Academic Precariat Christian Mauri



12. Living and Working in the Contemporary University Sarah R. Davies



13. Fields of Struggle: University Work and Global Change Raewyn Connell

Biography

Fabian Cannizzo is an independent researcher in Melbourne, Australia



Nick Osbaldiston is a senior lecturer at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

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