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Inquiring into Academic Timescapes /

There is a pervasive sense of incessant acceleration in the academic world. This book puts the temporal ordering of academic life under the microscope, and showcases the means of yielding a better understanding of how time and temporality act both as instruments of power and vulnerability within the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Vostal, Filip, 1983- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Dedication
  • About the Authors
  • Preface: Academic Timescapes in Focus
  • Diverse Implicit Assumptions
  • Working Time Theorised
  • Timescape Complexity Conceptualised
  • References
  • Introduction: On Times, Scapes and Chronosolidarity in Academia
  • The "Post-Clock" Capitalism
  • "Will-To-Speed"
  • Reader's Guide: Sections and Chapters
  • Chapter 1: Time and the Rhythms of Academia: A Rhythmanalytical Perspective
  • Introduction
  • Dealing with the Complexity of Time
  • Organizing Complementary, Contradictory, and Antagonistic Experiences of Time
  • Enriching Our Temporal Imagination
  • Privileging a Rhythmological Perspective
  • Shifting from a Temporal to a Rhythmological Perspective
  • The Relations Between Time and Rhythm
  • Envisioning Rhythmanalysis
  • Analyzing the Rhythms of Academia
  • Bachelard's Patterns of Duality
  • Lefebvre's Theory of Moments
  • Sauvanet's Definition of Rhythmic Criteria
  • Pattern
  • Periodicity
  • Movement
  • Opening
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Rhythm and the Possible: Moments, Anticipation and Dwelling in the Contemporary University
  • Introduction
  • Rhythm and the Possible
  • Moments, Instants and Shelters
  • Anticipation, Presence and Appropriation in the Rhythmic Institution
  • Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Cultural Rhythmics Inside Academic Temporalities
  • Introduction
  • The Rhythmics of Social Life
  • Academic Rhythmics
  • Development as Temporality
  • Design of Academic-political Agendas
  • References
  • Intermezzo I: Alice in Academia
  • THUD
  • 'Tomorrow Today'
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 4: Temporal Navigation in Academic Work: Experiences of Early Career Academics
  • Introduction
  • Data and Method
  • Accelerated Academia
  • Minna: Caught in a Temporal Trap
  • Anne: Searching for Timeless Time
  • Matti: Temporal Safety in a Research Team
  • Heidi: Non-stop Networking
  • Discussion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Academic Times, Shortcuts, and Styles
  • Exploring the Case of Time for a PhD from a Gender Perspective
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical Framework
  • Method
  • Findings
  • Perceiving Time Structures
  • Time for and in Supervision and Gender
  • Time Problems and Strategies
  • Men's View of Phd Gendered Times
  • Women's View of Gendered Time
  • Discussion
  • Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Metrics as Time-saving Devices
  • Let's Talk about Metrics
  • Metrics as Time-saving Devices
  • Discourse is a Time-consuming Business
  • Autonomy in Time
  • Making Time
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Time and Academic Multitasking
  • Unbounded Relation Between Professional and Personal Time
  • Introduction
  • Changes in Academic Work
  • the Relevance of the Gender Dimension
  • The Portuguese Context
  • Methodology