Full Description
Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities seeks to develop a counterculture that eschews the neoliberal ideology and interloping market values in higher education. More than merely lamenting the disruptive effects of these marketplace values in higher education institutions, it develops both theoretical insights and practical organizing strategies pertinent to challenging new academic-capitalist values and behaviors. Contributors, local and international, present cases from various institutions to illuminate how national trends concerning contingent faculty are articulated, implemented, and challenged at the local level. They present organizing strategies which are analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective, providing a thorough and comprehensive view of the contingent labor movement. This book will provide useful lessons to a broad array of audiences in universities, labor movements, and national and local governments.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Contingency at the Crossroads
Guy Senese
Part One: University Transformation and Faculty Agency
Chapter One: Introduction: The Casualization of Academic Labor & Faculty Agency
Ishmael I. Munene
Chapter Two: Prometheus Redefined: Theorizing & Contextualizing Contingent Faculty in Universities
Ishmael I. Munene
Chapter Three: The Metro Strategy: A workforce-appropriate, geography-based approach to organizing contingent faculty
Joe Berry and Helena Worthen
Part Two: Reclaiming the Faculty Narrative in the United States
Chapter Four: Vulnerable, But Not Silent: Unpacking Discourses of Fear Surrounding NTT Faculty
Nora Timmerman
Chapter Five: Notes from the Field: Mobilizing Non-Tenure Track Faculty at the University of Arizona
Sean Rys, Joel Smith, and Kristin Little
Chapter Six: Reclaiming Academic Labor in a Democratic State: Mediating the Neoliberal University Assault on the Professoriate
Tiffany Kraft
Chapter Seven: The Theft of Adjunct Faculty Labor Time: Theorizing Exchange Value and Resistance from a Marxist Perspective
Philippa Winkler
Chapter Eight: Democracy, Shared Governance, and Academic Freedom for All Faculty
Brian A. Stone and Sandra J. Stone
Part Three: Global Cases of Faculty Narrative and Agency
Chapter Nine: Non-Tenured Academics and the Dilemma of the Academic Profession in Kenyan Universities
Daniel N. Sifuna and Ibrahim O. Oanda
Chapter Ten: Tenure and Non-Tenure Track Systems in Turkish Academia: Current Status and Future Prospects
Nihan Demirkasimoglu
Chapter Eleven: The Beginnings of Resistance among Part-time Instructors in South Korea
Sungok R. Park and Choi Soyung
Chapter Twelve: Disposable Academics: Neoliberalism, Anti-Intellectualism and the Rise of Contingent Faculty in Canadian Universities
Njoki Nathani Wane and Zuhra Abawi
Chapter Thirteen: Afterthought: Unchaining Prometheus and Decaualizing Academic Labor
Ishmael I. Munene
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About the Contributors
