Inquiring into Academic Timescapes

Filip Vostal

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781789739121
• eBook ISBN: 9781789739138
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

Proliferating literature claims that academia is in a critical condition, generating armies of anxious, neurotic and time-hungry individuals which are governed by the speed imperatives integral to a modernist and capitalist rationality. This book puts the temporal ordering of academic life under the microscope, and showcases the means of yielding a better understanding of how time and temporality act both as instruments of power and vulnerability within the academic space. 

This book brings together more than three dozen scholars who collectively craft a much-needed nuanced sociologically-driven perspective of temporalities in academia. Delving into contemporary processes which are quintessentially temporal in their character, such as the increasing precariousness of jobs among junior scholars, the prevalence of grant funding, the role of evaluation systems, and the political economy of higher education, the authors offer a forensic analysis of the complex nature of academic temporalities as experienced, understood, controlled, managed and contested in various academic and research contexts.

Index

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.

Academia, 1, 7, 11, 13, 17, 59

accelerated, 89–92

analyzing rhythms, 26–27

Academic multitasking

academic work and use of time through gender perspective, 148–150

changes in academic work, 138–143

diversification of academic work and use of time, 145–148

methodology, 144–145

Portuguese context, 143–144

time and, 137–138

Academic Profession in the Knowledge Society project (APIKS project), 144–145

Academic timescales

disciplining, 217–218

optimizing, 220–225

organizing, 218–220

Academic work, 87, 124, 145–150

changes in, 138–143

diversification of, 145–148

and use of time through gender perspective, 148–150

Academic writing, 233–234

complexity and rhythms of, 243–245

Academic(s), 15, 123, 176

academic-political agendas, 68–71

calendar, 216, 218, 221

career, 33, 89

Folklore, 11

lives, 265–277

processes, 6–7

rhythmics, 63–66

study of temporality, 256

temporalities, 64

time, 157, 160, 216–217

timescales, 224

timescape, 8, 124

Accelerated academia, 89–92

Accelerated academy c...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Introduction
• Section I. Uneven Times
• Section II. Shortening Times
• Section III. Career Times
• Section IV. Making and Doing Times
• In Conclusion: The Temporal Fabric of Academic Lives: Of Weaving, Repairing, and Resisting
• Index