Ethnographies of Academia
There is a mythology of nourishment deposited in the language of the intellect.[1] Thoughts are digested. Ideas are chewed upon. There is hunger for…
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This thematic thread, curated by Vita Peacock, is dedicated to ethnographies of academia and is intended as a critical inquiry into how academics are variously processing their workplaces now.
Insiders, Outsiders, and Intellectual Kinship
Marshall Sahlins once dismissed the possibility that teacher-student relationships might be a kind of kinship. ‘Persons may have various relational attributes and thus be…
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Neoliberalism as Liberation in Russian Data Science
It should not be too controversial to say that the Russian university system is somewhat dilapidated. Certainly, this was the opinion of many of…
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Antiheroism: the underdog’s survival tactic
“Where do you put your anger?” a precarious academic asked me poignantly the other day as we talked about the bad job market. The…
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Unravelling Academic Precarity
In conversation, scholars cannot help but constantly raise the subject of their increasingly precarious working conditions and the anxieties that derive from them. From…
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Towards a Transnational Anthropology Union #UniversityCrisis
At the last European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) meeting, a few of us called an open meeting for early career and precarious anthropologists…
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RECLAIMING THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Universities are in turmoil. There was a time when they stood out as pinnacles of Enlightenment, where scholarly elites could profess to a superior…
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The Neoliberal Race to the Bottom Affects Us All!*
Over the last years academics from different disciplines have become increasingly visible on popular and social media, narrating personal stories and reflecting on the…
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Neoliberal Race to Innovativeness
This week we discuss – once again – the global university crisis. What can we say: don’t blame us for obsessing on this theme,…
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Dear ‘Older’ Generation’ #UniversityCrisis
Dear ‘Older’ Generation, Yes – You with the permanent posts the faculty members the tenure trackers We simply wanted to pause you…
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