Searching for Authenticity and Success: Academic Identity and Production in Neoliberal Times
Kitapta bölümler > Diğer · 2017
Yazarlar: Özgür Budak
Universities in the Neoliberal Era, Diğer, Palgrave Macmillan, B, Uluslararası, 2017, ss 41-59, ,
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-55212-9_3
Özet
This chapter investigates the relationship between neoliberalism’s impact on academic careers and the reshaping of academic identity. I show how academics reconcile the often conflicting needs of a publish or perish culture with increasing lecture hours and administrative responsibilities. Drawing on interviews with junior social scientists from the sociology, political science and international relations departments, I analyze the professional dispositions and norms of academics in Turkish higher education under neoliberalization. In particular, I focus on the relationship between their dispositions and strategies in trying to maintain a balance between their professional identity and career security in a precarious social setting. I also identify a possible ethos to reconcile neoliberal principles of higher education and the actors’ subjective aspirations. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.