Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty (eBook)

Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities

Ishmael I. Munene (Autor)

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2018
282 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3955-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents an overview of the context and work conditions of contingent faculty in higher education. It addresses questions related to the ways in which faculty theorize about contingent academic labor, and under what conditions they are able to unite, organize, and constitute an opposition to management.

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Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities seeks to develop a counterculture that eschews the neoliberal ideology and interloping market values in higher education. More than merely lamenting the disruptive effects of these marketplace values in higher education institutions, it develops both theoretical insights and practical organizing strategies pertinent to challenging new academic-capitalist values and behaviors. Contributors, local and international, present cases from various institutions to illuminate how national trends concerning contingent faculty are articulated, implemented, and challenged at the local level. They present organizing strategies which are analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective, providing a thorough and comprehensive view of the contingent labor movement. This book will provide useful lessons to a broad array of audiences in universities, labor movements, and national and local governments.

Autor

Ishmael I. Munene is professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University.

Inhalt

List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsForeword: Contingency at the CrossroadsGuy SenesePart One: University Transformation and Faculty Agency Chapter One: Introduction: The Casualization of Academic Labor & Faculty AgencyIshmael I. MuneneChapter Two: Prometheus Redefined: Theorizing & Contextualizing Contingent Faculty in UniversitiesIshmael I. MuneneChapter Three: The Metro Strategy: A workforce-appropriate, geography-based approach to organizing contingent facultyJoe Berry and Helena WorthenPart Two: Reclaiming the Faculty Narrative in the United States Chapter Four: Vulnerable, But Not Silent: Unpacking Discourses of Fear Surrounding NTT FacultyNora Timmerman Chapter Five: Notes from the Field: Mobilizing Non-Tenure Track Faculty at the University of ArizonaSean Rys, Joel Smith, and Kristin LittleChapter Six: Reclaiming Academic Labor in a Democratic State: Mediating the Neoliberal University Assault on the ProfessoriateTiffany KraftChapter Seven: The Theft of Adjunct Faculty Labor Time: Theorizing Exchange Value and Resistance from a Marxist PerspectivePhilippa Winkler Chapter Eight: Democracy, Shared Governance, and Academic Freedom for All Faculty Brian A. Stone and Sandra J. Stone Part Three: Global Cases of Faculty Narrative and Agency Chapter Nine: Non-Tenured Academics and the Dilemma of the Academic Profession in Kenyan Universities Daniel N. Sifuna and Ibrahim O. OandaChapter Ten: Tenure and Non-Tenure Track Systems in Turkish Academia: Current Status and Future ProspectsNihan DemirkasımoğluChapter Eleven: The Beginnings of Resistance among Part-time Instructors in South KoreaSungok R. Park and Choi SoyungChapter Twelve: Disposable Academics: Neoliberalism, Anti-Intellectualism and the Rise of Contingent Faculty in Canadian UniversitiesNjoki Nathani Wane and Zuhra Abawi Chapter Thirteen: Afterthought: Unchaining Prometheus and Decaualizing Academic LaborIshmael I. MuneneReferencesAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2018
• Co-Autor: Sean Rys, Daniel N. Sifuna, Joel Smith, Choi Soyoung, Brian A. Stone, Sandra J. Stone, Nora Timmerman, Njoki Nathan Wane, Philippa Winkler, Helena Worthen, Zuhra Abawi, Joe T. Berry, Nihan Demirkasimoglu, Tiffany Kraft, Kristin Little, Ishmael I. Munene, Ibrahim O. Ogachi, Sungok R. Park
• Zusatzinfo: 8 Illustrations including: - 5 Tables; - 3 Graphs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: academic freedom • adjunct faculty • contingent faculty • Higher Education Globalization • Higher Education Marketization • Metro-Strategy • Neo-liberalism • Non-Tenure Track Faculty • Part-time Faculty • Tenure-Track Faculty
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3955-6 / 1498539556
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3955-5 / 9781498539555