University Crisis Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/university-crisis/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Thu, 05 Jun 2025 11:10:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png University Crisis Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/university-crisis/ 32 32 Ethnographies of Academia https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnographies-of-academia-universitycrisis/ https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnographies-of-academia-universitycrisis/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:00:53 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=22364 There is a mythology of nourishment deposited in the language of the intellect.[1] Thoughts are digested. Ideas are chewed upon. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnographies-of-academia-universitycrisis/feed/ 1 Insiders, Outsiders, and Intellectual Kinship https://allegralaboratory.net/insiders-outsiders-and-intellectual-kinship-universitycrisis/ https://allegralaboratory.net/insiders-outsiders-and-intellectual-kinship-universitycrisis/#respond Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:00:18 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=22366 Marshall Sahlins once dismissed the possibility that teacher-student relationships might be a kind of kinship. ‘Persons may have various relational […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/insiders-outsiders-and-intellectual-kinship-universitycrisis/feed/ 0 Neoliberalism as Liberation in Russian Data Science https://allegralaboratory.net/neoliberalism-as-liberation-in-russian-data-science-universitycrisis/ https://allegralaboratory.net/neoliberalism-as-liberation-in-russian-data-science-universitycrisis/#respond Mon, 12 Dec 2016 08:01:50 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=22323 It should not be too controversial to say that the Russian university system is somewhat dilapidated. Certainly, this was the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/neoliberalism-as-liberation-in-russian-data-science-universitycrisis/feed/ 0 Antiheroism: the underdog’s survival tactic https://allegralaboratory.net/antiheroism-the-underdogs-survival-tactic-universitycrisis/ https://allegralaboratory.net/antiheroism-the-underdogs-survival-tactic-universitycrisis/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:00:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=22275 “Where do you put your anger?” a precarious academic asked me poignantly the other day as we talked about the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/antiheroism-the-underdogs-survival-tactic-universitycrisis/feed/ 1 Unravelling Academic Precarity https://allegralaboratory.net/unravelling-academic-precarity-universitycrisis/ https://allegralaboratory.net/unravelling-academic-precarity-universitycrisis/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2016 08:00:11 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=22325 In conversation, scholars cannot help but constantly raise the subject of their increasingly precarious working conditions and the anxieties that […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/unravelling-academic-precarity-universitycrisis/feed/ 1 Towards a Transnational Anthropology Union #UniversityCrisis https://allegralaboratory.net/towards-a-transnational-anthropology-union-universitycrisis/ https://allegralaboratory.net/towards-a-transnational-anthropology-union-universitycrisis/#respond Wed, 07 Dec 2016 08:00:21 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=22321 At the last European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) meeting, a few of us called an open meeting for early […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/towards-a-transnational-anthropology-union-universitycrisis/feed/ 0 RECLAIMING THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN https://allegralaboratory.net/reclaiming-the-university-of-aberdeen-universitycrisis/ https://allegralaboratory.net/reclaiming-the-university-of-aberdeen-universitycrisis/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2016 08:00:21 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=22272 Universities are in turmoil. There was a time when they stood out as pinnacles of Enlightenment, where scholarly elites could […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/reclaiming-the-university-of-aberdeen-universitycrisis/feed/ 2 The Neoliberal Race to the Bottom Affects Us All!* https://allegralaboratory.net/anthropologists-are-not-immune-from-the-neoliberal-race-to-the-bottom/ https://allegralaboratory.net/anthropologists-are-not-immune-from-the-neoliberal-race-to-the-bottom/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2016 07:00:32 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=8742 Over the last years academics from different disciplines have become increasingly visible on popular and social media, narrating personal stories […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/anthropologists-are-not-immune-from-the-neoliberal-race-to-the-bottom/feed/ 2 Neoliberal Race to Innovativeness https://allegralaboratory.net/neoliberal-race-to-innovativeness-universitycrisis/ https://allegralaboratory.net/neoliberal-race-to-innovativeness-universitycrisis/#respond Tue, 07 Apr 2015 05:00:21 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=12423 This week we discuss – once again – the global university crisis. What can we say: don’t blame us for […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/neoliberal-race-to-innovativeness-universitycrisis/feed/ 0 Dear ‘Older’ Generation’ https://allegralaboratory.net/dear-older-generation-r-i-p-margaret-mary-vojtko/ https://allegralaboratory.net/dear-older-generation-r-i-p-margaret-mary-vojtko/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2014 05:34:42 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=1072 Dear ‘Older’ Generation,   Yes – You with the permanent posts the faculty members the tenure trackers   We simply […]

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