At the Margins of Academia
Exile, Precariousness, and Subjectivity
Published on 23. May 2020
Book
Hardback
204 pages
978-90-04-43134-8 (ISBN)
Description
Are displaced and emigrated academics "at risk" or "in reserve"? Are political oppression of dissident scholars and economic precarization of academic workforce separate phenomena, or two sides of the same coin? Can the pervasive precariousness in its various forms foster a conversation on shared sensibilities? And, can traumatic experiences like exile and loss eventually lead to a revival of agency?
Based on the author's own experiences and on in-depth interviews with the exiled Peace Academics, At the Margins of Academia offers a broad approach to the challenge of academic labor precarity and the growing academic migration from Turkey to European academic labor markets. It provides a detailed analysis of the systemic background of precariousness and the socio-emotional expressions of being kept in reserve, in conjunction with the antinomies of exile.
Based on the author's own experiences and on in-depth interviews with the exiled Peace Academics, At the Margins of Academia offers a broad approach to the challenge of academic labor precarity and the growing academic migration from Turkey to European academic labor markets. It provides a detailed analysis of the systemic background of precariousness and the socio-emotional expressions of being kept in reserve, in conjunction with the antinomies of exile.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
428 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-43134-8 (9789004431348)
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Asli Vatansever, Dr. rer. pol. (2010, University of Hamburg) is research fellow at Institute Re:Work, HU Berlin. Her books include Urspruenge des Islamismus im Osmanischen Reich (Hamburg: Dr. Kovac, 2010) and Ne Ders Olsa Veririz. Akademisyenin Vasifsiz Isciye Doenuesuemue (Ready to Teach Anything, Istanbul: Iletisim, 2015 - co-authored).
Content
?Preface
?Permissions
?Abbreviations
?Introduction
1 Situating the Issue of Displaced Academics within the Framework of Academic Precarity
?1.1 The Political Economy of Academic Precarity
??1.1.1 The Commodification of Academic Labor Force
??1.1.2 Precarious Work in Academia
1.2 The Exiled Academics for Peace as a Segment of Academic Surplus Labor Force
?2 Reflections on Precarization, Exile, and Subjectivity
?2.1 Rethinking the Relationship between Precariousness and Subjectivity
?2.2 The Neoliberal Logic of De-subjectivation
?2.3 The Neoliberal Academic Subject
?2.4 The Question of Exile and Re-subjectivation in Relation to Displaced Academics
?3 The "Purgatory" of Being Kept in Reserve
?3.1 An Unsettled Life between Trivia and Essentials
?3.2 A Non-place between Turkey and Europe
?3.3 A Non-time between the Past, the Present, and the Future
?3.4 A Non-position between Guest and Exile
4 An Interrupted Mourning
5 The Recovery of the Will: Limits, Opportunities, and Challenges
?Conclusion
?Afterword
?Appendix 1 Questionnaire
?Appendix 2 List of Interviewees
?Appendix 3 List of Participants and Topics of the Focus Group Meeting on 11 July 2017
?References
?Index
?Permissions
?Abbreviations
?Introduction
1 Situating the Issue of Displaced Academics within the Framework of Academic Precarity
?1.1 The Political Economy of Academic Precarity
??1.1.1 The Commodification of Academic Labor Force
??1.1.2 Precarious Work in Academia
1.2 The Exiled Academics for Peace as a Segment of Academic Surplus Labor Force
?2 Reflections on Precarization, Exile, and Subjectivity
?2.1 Rethinking the Relationship between Precariousness and Subjectivity
?2.2 The Neoliberal Logic of De-subjectivation
?2.3 The Neoliberal Academic Subject
?2.4 The Question of Exile and Re-subjectivation in Relation to Displaced Academics
?3 The "Purgatory" of Being Kept in Reserve
?3.1 An Unsettled Life between Trivia and Essentials
?3.2 A Non-place between Turkey and Europe
?3.3 A Non-time between the Past, the Present, and the Future
?3.4 A Non-position between Guest and Exile
4 An Interrupted Mourning
5 The Recovery of the Will: Limits, Opportunities, and Challenges
?Conclusion
?Afterword
?Appendix 1 Questionnaire
?Appendix 2 List of Interviewees
?Appendix 3 List of Participants and Topics of the Focus Group Meeting on 11 July 2017
?References
?Index