Description
This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher educationand research work that are underway today havenot only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually beproducing unemployment both for those within academia and forgraduate job-seekers in other sectors. Recent and current re-organisations of higher education and researchwork, and re-orientations of academic life (as students, researchers, teachers)generally, which are taking place around the world, achieve exactly theopposite of what they claim: though ostensibly undertaken to facilitateemployment, these moves actually produce unemployment both for those withinacademia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors.
Table of Contents
Introduction, - 1. The Implausible Knowledge Triangle of the Western Balkans, - 2. Human and Inhuman Capital, and Schooling: The Case of Slovenia, - 3. Privatising Minds: New Educational Policies in India, - 4. 'Academic Leadership' and the Conditions of Academic Work, - 5. Not Working: Shared Services and the Production of Unemployment, - 6. Graduate Unemployment in Post-haircut Cyprus: Where Have all the Students Gone?, - 7.'Dare to Dare: Academic Pedagogy in Times of Flattened Hierarchies, - 8. Cannibalising the Collegium: The Plight of the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Managerial University, 9. Between Career Progression and Career Stagnation: Casualisation, Tenure and the Contract of Indefinite Duration in Ireland, - 10. Are University Stuggles Worth Fighting?, - 11. You're Either a Flower in the Dustbin or the Spark that Lights a Fire: On Precarity and Student Protests, - 12. Whither Critical Scholarship in the Modern University? Critique, Radical Democracy and Counter-Hegemony, -13. Academics as Workers: From Career Management to Class Analysis and Collective Action
