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Title Affective capitalism in academia : revealing public secrets / edited by Kristiina Brunila, Daniel Nehring
Published Bristol : Policy Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents Front Cover -- Affective Capitalismin Academia: Revealing Public Secrets -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction: academic capitalism and the affective organisation of academic labour -- Reconsidering academic capitalism -- Academic capitalism and affective labour in academia -- Affective capitalism in academia -- Revealing public secrets with affective subjectivation -- Structure of the book -- Conclusion: where to go from here? -- References -- Part I Structures -- 2 Affective labour pains of academic capitalism in crisis
Introduction: conceptualising the connections between affect, capitalism, and academia1 -- Logic of capital: a commodified use-value/exchange-value tension -- Logic of capital: the necessity of structural inequality among labourers in fields of capital-accumulating production -- University sectors as capitalising fields: Bourdieu's expanded 'capitals' -- Australian university restructures: imperilling the cultural-symbolic logic -- Habitus in hysteresis: affective dissonances -- Breaking academic agency: violent affects from 'above' -- Capitalising on dire academic affects
Conclusion: resowing academic fields for use-valued life ahead? -- Note -- References -- 3 Deepened coloniality, heightened structuralism: implications for intellectual thought and praxis in the Caribbean -- Introduction -- Neoliberalism, (post)structuralism and the academy -- Plantation society, coloniality and the intellectual traditions -- Deepened coloniality and intellectual advances -- Critical pedagogy, post-coloniality and the public intellectual -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 4 Academic patriarchal (post)liberal capitalism -- Introduction -- 'We do not measure, we classify'
The Greek university against historical-materialist thinking -- 'I fear that nobody is going to take us very seriously if we continue to suggest that war is imminent because fathers hate their sons and want to kill them'3 -- (Post)liberalism -- patriarchal psychic normality and academia -- The 'Great Capitalist Reset' -- Conclusion: decolonising academia -- Notes -- References -- Part II Relationships -- 5 The storytelling and storyselling of neoliberal academic work -- Introduction -- The 10 commandments of A-cademics -- Academic storyselling in the 'moral concentration camp'
Academic storytelling in the 'public library' -- Imaginary realism -- The heart and the darkness -- References -- 6 Exploring the academic and affective leadership in academia -- Introduction -- Academia and leadership on the market -- Data and analysis -- Becoming a leader: the messy journey begins -- Becoming a gendered leader in the academy -- How to rethink the academic leadership: the end of the 'messy' journey -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Friendship in academia: the moral economy of academic work -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- Networking and friendship at work
Summary 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
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Education, Higher -- Finance.
Universities and colleges -- Administration.
Affect (Psychology)
Sociology: work & labour.
Organization & management of education.
Higher & further education, tertiary education.
EDUCATION / Administration / Higher.
Affect (Psychology)
Education, Higher -- Finance
Universities and colleges -- Administration
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Brunila, Kristiina, 1971- editor.
Nehring, Daniel, editor
ISBN 9781447357858
144735785X
9781447357865
1447357868