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Record Nr.

UNINA9910772081103321

Autore

Nehring Daniel

Titolo

Affective capitalism in academia : revealing public secrets / / Daniel Nehring and Kristiina Brunila

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK : , : Policy Press, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

1-4473-5787-6

1-4473-5786-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 pages)

Disciplina

378.38

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Finance

Universities and colleges - Administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: academic capitalism and the affective organisation of academic labour -- Structures -- Affective labour pains of academic capitalism in crisis -- Deepened coloniality, heightened structuralism: implications for intellectual thought and praxis in the Caribbean -- Academic patriarchal (post)liberal capitalism -- Relationships -- The storytelling and storyselling of neoliberal academic work -- Exploring the academic and affective leadership in academia -- Friendship in academia: the moral economy of academic work -- What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker: an uncanny story of contemporary academic life -- Performance -- Academy in my flesh: affective athleticism and performative writing -- Getting texts done: affective rhythms of reading in quantified academia -- Performance management: Western universities, Chinese entrepreneurs and students on stage -- What’s the point? A few thoughts instead of a conclusion -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on affect theory and research on academic capitalism and 11 international case studies, this book examines the contemporary crisis of universities, from the coloniality of academic capitalism to performance management and the experience of being performance-managed.