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Academic freedom and precarity in the global North : free as a bird / edited by Aslı Vatansever and Aysuda Kölemen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 347.
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 347
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Academic freedom--Europe.
- Academic freedom.
- Teaching, Freedom of--Europe.
- Teaching, Freedom of.
- Education, Higher--Curricula--Europe.
- Education, Higher.
- Research--Europe.
- Research.
- College teachers--Tenure--Europe.
- College teachers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 167 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Aslı Vatansever is a sociologist of work with a focus on precarious academic labor. Currently she is a Research Fellow at Bard College Berlin. Her books include Urspr|nge des Islamismus im Osmanischen Reich. Eine weltsystemanalytische Perspektive (Sources of Islamism in the Ottoman Empire. A World Systems Analysis Perspective, 2010), Ne Ders Olsa Veririz. Akademisyenin Vasıfsız 0_̇iye Dn̲|_|m| (Ready to Teach Anything. The Transformation of the Academic into Unskilled Worker, 2015 - co-authored with Meral Gezici-Yalcın) and At the Margins of Academia. Exile, Precariousness, and Subjectivity (2020). Aysuda Kl̲emen (PhD University of Georgia, Athens, USA, 2010) is a comparative political scientist and a journalist. After she was dismissed from her position as an assistant professor in Turkey in 2017 for her political stance, her activist and research interests turned to the economic as well as the political dimensions of academic freedom. Her recent publications such as Illiberal Democracy or Electoral Autocracy: The Case of Turkey (with G|l̇in Co_kun, 2020), and Reflections on Exile and Academic Precarity: Discussing at the Margins of Academia (with Aslı Vatansever, 2020) focus on freedom, resistance, and precarity in academia.
- Contents:
- The chair : a short history of structural unfreedom, anti-democracy, and disenfranchisement in German academia / Britta Ohm
- What is tenure? / Lisa Cerami
- Disability studies as a subaltern discipline / Colin Cameron
- Living on the edge : continuous precarity undermines academic freedom but not researchers' identity in neoliberal academia / Ana Ferreira
- Academic freedoms of fixed-term researchers in Italy : aggravating occupational precarity / Giuseppe Acconcia
- Disappearing freedoms : on intersections of career and labor in Nordic countries / Dan Vesalainen Hirslund
- 'Our university is exploiting us' : migrant students in the UK, the global pandemic and the nexus between marketized higher education and border controls / Sanaz Raji
- Academics stuck in movement amidst precarity, hypermobility and vulnerability / Georgiana Turculet.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Academic freedom and precarity in the global North
- ISBN:
- 9781003256984
- 1003256988
- 9781000766622
- 1000766624
- 9781000765458
- 1000765458
- Publisher Number:
- 40031395043
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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