Accelerating academia [electronic resource] : the changing structure of academic time / Filip Vostal.
2016
LB2331 .V675 2016eb
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Title
Accelerating academia [electronic resource] : the changing structure of academic time / Filip Vostal.
Author
Vostal, Filip, 1983- author.
ISBN
9781137473608 (electronic book)
1137473606 (electronic book)
9781137473592
1137473606 (electronic book)
9781137473592
Published
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
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1 online resource.
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LB2331 .V675 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
378.1/2212
Summary
The era of a 'slow-paced' academia characterized by leisurely tempos of research and pedagogy has gone. Academia is now an intensely social site, and the boundaries between capitalist dynamics and academic life have become blurred. Academic workloads are increasing as academics have to deal with an ever-growing number of tasks, information, obligations, texts, procedures and connections. Yet the time available for carrying out these activities remains relatively constant, and even seems to be decreasing. Simultaneously, the 'will to accelerate' has emerged as a significant cultural and structural force in knowledge production, propelled by competitiveness and the drive for excellence. Filip Vostal examines the changing character of academic time, and questions the nature of this acceleration. Without challenging its negative implications, Vostal argues that we cannot fully understand this phenomenon unless we scrutinize its positive dimensions, and ask why people opt for acceleration, and how and why the compulsion to accelerate features in higher education policy discourse.
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Palgrave studies in science, knowledge, and policy.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The pulse of modern academia
1. Thematizing acceleration
2. Continuity and change in the temporal dynamics of capitalism
3. Vehicularity: the idea of the knowledge economy
4. Performativity: competitiveness and excellence
5. Acceleration in the academic life-world
6. Fast sites: igniting and catapulting knowledge
7. Sociology, fast and slow
Conclusion: For a temporal autonomy of academia
Appendices.
1. Thematizing acceleration
2. Continuity and change in the temporal dynamics of capitalism
3. Vehicularity: the idea of the knowledge economy
4. Performativity: competitiveness and excellence
5. Acceleration in the academic life-world
6. Fast sites: igniting and catapulting knowledge
7. Sociology, fast and slow
Conclusion: For a temporal autonomy of academia
Appendices.