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Publication Date: 2015
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Speed Kills, Speed Thrills: Constraining and Enabling Accelerations in Academic Work-Life
Vostal, Filip
Globalisation, Societies and Education, v13 n3 p295-314 2015
Intensification, speed of change and faster pace of life have recently emerged as significant issues in studies analysing the current academic climate. This article takes up the "social acceleration thesis" as a conceptual resource for capturing the relationship between the individual experience of time and the changing structure and operations of contemporary academia. Using qualitative data from the UK, it analyses the texture and implications of the accelerating pace of academic work-life. It argues that such pace is both resented, as well as strategically managed by academics. In this way, the analysis opens up more agentic approach to the overall dynamisation in academic work-life and argues that it is possible to conceive acceleration as practical and even thrilling. Against the background of such an approach, the article concludes by stating that acceleration in academic work-life is an ambivalent experience and by questioning recent propositions under the label of slow academia.
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Family Work Relationship, Selective Admission, Productivity, Faculty Publishing, Information Technology, Work Environment, Teacher Attitudes, Stress Variables, Work Experience, Faculty Workload, Publish or Perish Issue, Semi Structured Interviews, Time
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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