Continuing Attachments in Academic Work in Neoliberal Times: On the Academic Mode of Existence

Autor/inn/en	Decuypere, Mathias; Simons, Maarten
Titel	Continuing Attachments in Academic Work in Neoliberal Times: On the Academic Mode of Existence
Quelle	In: Critical Studies in Education, 60 (2019) 2, S.226-244 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Decuypere, Mathias)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-8487
DOI	10.1080/17508487.2016.1240095
Schlagwörter	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; Europe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Forschungseinrichtung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Schulleistung; Ethnografie; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Fakultät; Doktorandenprogramm; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Arbeitsmilieu; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Ausland; Europa
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01