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Publication Date: 2019
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Continuing Attachments in Academic Work in Neoliberal Times: On the Academic Mode of Existence
Decuypere, Mathias; Simons, Maarten
Critical Studies in Education, v60 n2 p226-244 2019
Is there (still) something specific about academic practice in contemporary neoliberal times? This article reports on a sociomaterial, ethnographic study informed by Deleuze's untimely empiricism conducted at two research centres of a research university. We unfold the specificity of 'the academic' by elaborating upon two central notions: relational aspirations (the attachments of these academics, and the operations that such attachments generate) and mode of existence (the way academic practice comes into being by and through these attachments). The article discerns four types of relations that are typical for academic practice and argues that the way in which academic practice exists nowadays is characterized by a continuous distancing in action, that is, by drawing things together and by slowing things down.
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Research Universities, Academic Aspiration, Neoliberalism, Academic Achievement, Ethnography, Attachment Behavior, Case Studies, College Faculty, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Work Environment, Resilience (Psychology), Governance, Western Civilization, Faculty Workload, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Europe
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