scholarly journals Vulnerable academic performances. Dialogue on matters of voice and silence in academia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Rogowska-Stangret ◽  
Olga Cielemęcka
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Academic Power ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Precarious Labor ◽  
Collective Empowerment ◽  
Voice And Silence

In this dialogue, authors collectively reflect upon their experiences of being feminist philosophers. They diffract their personal and embodied experiences, philosophical reflections, and critiques of institutions in order to consider how and where a “vulnerable academic performance” is possible. In particular, the authors address matters of voice and silence within academia by asking the following questions: How are voices distributed and materialized in academia? Whose voice is heard and listened to vis-à-vis exisiting philosophical canons, classifications, and regimes of citationality? Bringing to the fore both personal and affective registers, the authors address the standards of legitimacy, hierarchies of voices and precarious labor conditions in academia as factors that render voices un/heard. With this in mind, they suggest a move towards vulnerability as a potent source of collective empowerment that is capable of disturbing academic power structures and canons.

Ordo-Liberalism as Tradition, Ideology, and Model of Citizenship: Memorializing, Reinventing, Forgetting

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-128
Author(s):  
Kenneth Dyson
Keyword(s):  
Family Resemblance ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Academic Power ◽  
Liberal Tradition ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Invented Tradition ◽  
Canonical Texts ◽  
Core Characteristics

This chapter examines the complex processes of memorialization, reinvention, and forgetting that have characterized the Ordo-liberal tradition; the role of the Freiburg School; the selection of certain aspects of political economy and of certain thinkers and texts; and the distinctive focusing illusions that have followed. It also looks at how its identity has been shaped by its ideological makeup and its model of citizenship. The picture that emerges is of a tradition whose core characteristics can be defined but whose boundaries are difficult to fix. Part of the problem is its ideological hybridity as both conservative and liberal. The chapter looks at the dual nature of the Ordo-liberal tradition as explicit and formalized knowledge and as tacit and common-sense knowledge (William Sorley). In the first sense it is characterized by academic power structures, notably in economics and law, and canonical texts, and by the effects of generational change on these structures. In the second sense, Ordo-liberalism is bound up with administrative cultures and the extent to which they are rule-bound and receptive. The chapter then considers two other aspects of the Ordo-liberal tradition: as ideal type (Eucken) and more loosely as family resemblance (Ludwig Wittgenstein); and as authentic and invented tradition (Eric Hobsbawm), distinguishing Freiburg 1, 2, and 3. Finally, the chapter identifies the Ordo-liberal model of citizenship as based on safeguarding the morally responsible individual: the wise consumer, the thrifty saver, and the responsible creditor. It condemns feckless and profligate behaviour, notably of debtors. This model is subjected to critique.

Structural Labor Precariousness in Peru

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052093842
Author(s):  
Jan Lust
Keyword(s):  
Structural Condition ◽  
International Division ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
The Social ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Precarious Labor ◽  
Business Structure

The role of Peru in the international division of labor is the structural condition for the persistence of labor precariousness in the country. At a more concrete level, labor precariousness is an expression of the economic and business structure of the country. An economic structure heavily dependent on the non-tradable sectors and a business structure dominated by micro business undertakings do not permit the eradication of precarious labor conditions as economic growth hinges on economic progress abroad and precariousness is the source of profit of micro companies. Labor precariousness is not an automatic consequence of Peru’s role in the globalized capitalist world, but rather the social and economic consequence of the neoliberal policies implemented in the 1990s and, in particular, the current neoliberal development model in place.

Postpartum geographies: Intersections of academic labor and care work

2020 ◽  
pp. 239965442095351
Author(s):  
Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Daycare Centers ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Academic Labor ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Precarious Labor ◽  
The University

Academic work and care work are deeply entangled modes of labor. For parent-academics, these entanglements are particularly knotted during the postpartum period, when care work responsibilities intensify, increasingly under precarious labor conditions. Postpartum care work—whether conducted by oneself or by someone else—both encroaches upon and makes possible academic work, resulting in blurred spatiotemporal divisions between the two. This article draws on autoethnography and participant observation to map out a postpartum geography of care work and academic work in academia. It does so by examining three key sites in/of the university where care work and academic work intersect—bathrooms, campus daycare centers, and the internet—and by considering three kinds of work that happen there—milk-work, childcare work, and connection-work. In these three sites in particular, I argue, the intellectual work and the care work that sustain the university spill over into one another. Furthermore, each of these geographic sites can manifest as sites of care, access, labor, and surveillance, often simultaneously and always depending on the gendered, raced, classed, and dis/abled positionality of those moving in and through them. By advancing an understanding of (postpartum) reproductive rights as workers’ rights, this paper also envisions more intersectional and coalitional feminist labor solidarities across campus.

An Invitation to Rhetoric: A Generative Dialogue on Performance, Possibility, and Feminist Potentialities in Invitational Rhetoric

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryant Keith Alexander ◽  
Michele Hammers
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Hierarchical Relationship ◽  
Invitational Rhetoric ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Sonja Foss

This performative essay uses the anticipated 25th anniversary of Sonja Foss and Cindy Griffin’s essay, “Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric,” as a pivot point to explore the notion of invitational rhetoric applied variously and processed through the embodied experiences of the two authors: A Black gay identified male and a White queer identified woman in what some might construct as a hierarchical relationship as academic dean and faculty. This is important for the reader to know—relative to a particular performed academic/administrative/intellectual/collaborative project that penetrates the political and power structures of academic relationality—modeling an aspect of invitational rhetoric in which both authors maintain immanent value and an openness to each other as collaborator and audience invoking possibility and potentiality within, across, and beyond the categorical distinctions of their persons that have historically both divided and conjoined them. In addition, the essay embodies a version of assemblage/collaborative writing to explore issues of performance, race, gender, culture, and violence in academic and everyday contexts.

scholarly journals Collaboration: Exploring the Postgraduate Researcher’s superpower for addressing inequalities within academia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annayah Miranda Beatrice Prosser
Keyword(s):  
Academic Work ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
Academic Power ◽  
Academic Pipeline

Inequalities within academia are rampant. Sexism, racism, classism and discrimination impose huge barriers to those entering academic work or study. These issues are amplified in times of crisis, such as COVID-19. As postgraduate researchers, we can often feel powerless to address these inequalities. We possess little status in academic power structures, and as such it can be difficult to ‘rock the boat’ or diverge from normalised patterns of discrimination within our fields. In this essay, I argue that while we may lack status, postgraduates can adapt and diversify our collaborations with others to effectively address inequality. I outline how collaboration can be a vital tool for elevating underrepresented voices within and outside academia and examine how students with funding in particular can play an important role in this. In diversifying our citations, networks and methods of collaboration, we can ensure increasing opportunities are available for underrepresented groups throughout the academic pipeline. As the next generation of scholars, postgraduate researchers can change the game for underrepresented groups, and ensuring we collaborate diversely is our superpower for doing so.

We Are Here: undocumented migrants and activism as resistance

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-387
Author(s):  
Jenny Kronman ◽  
Jessica H. Jönsson
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Undocumented Migrants ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
Collective Empowerment ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article explores how the collective of undocumented migrants We Are Here mobilises and creates strategies for social change in the Netherlands. The empirical material presented in this article refers to in-depth interviews and discussions with activists from We Are Here. Collective empowerment in its radical form and postcolonial perspectives were used to analyse the resistance strategies to unmask (post)colonial power structures in the Netherlands. The result of the study shows that We Are Here’s visibility, legal grey-area strategies (such as occupying buildings [squatting]) and finding legal forms of supporting itself economically prove collective empowerment and shed light on oppressive tactics used by local governments in the Netherlands. The claims of undocumented activists bring necessary knowledge to front-line social workers in developing radical social work practice with undocumented migrants in Europe.

The Legal Construction of Precarity: Lessons from the Construction Sectors in Beijing and Delhi

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 549-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Pang
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Labor Disputes ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Construction ◽  
Precarious Labor ◽  
Worker Resistance

This article seeks to disentangle the concepts of “precarity” and “informality” to examine the role of the state in structuring and reproducing precarious labor conditions. Using two cases of labor disputes from the construction sectors in Beijing and Delhi, this article traces the ways through which precarity is structured and reproduced by the state through the law, and reflects on the implications for worker resistance and claim-making.

The Chilean Scholarship Program. Shapes of precarity as a policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Claudio Broitman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Clear Definition ◽  
National Program ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Scholarship Program ◽  
It Impact ◽  
Precarious Labor ◽  
Young Researchers

The ambitious National Program has invested billions since its foundation in 2008, without any clear definition regarding the return of the scholarship holders. Thousands of young researchers are now in precarious labor conditions in an already collapsed system. Our qualitative research seeks to understand the ways former scholarship holders live precarity and how does it impact their nowledge production

scholarly journals Collaboration: Exploring the PGR Superpower for Addressing Inequalities within Academia

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Annayah Prosser
Keyword(s):  
Academic Work ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
Academic Power ◽  
Academic Pipeline

Inequalities within academia are rampant. Sexism, racism, classism and discrimination impose huge barriers to those entering academic work or study. These issues are amplified in times of crisis, such as COVID-19. As postgraduate researchers, we can often feel powerless to address these inequalities. We possess little status in academic power structures, and as such it can be difficult to ‘rock the boat’ or diverge from normalised patterns of discrimination within our fields. In this essay, I argue that while we may lack status, we can adapt and diversify our collaborations with others to effectively address inequality. I outline how collaboration can be a vital tool for elevating underrepresented voices within and outside academia and examine how students with funding in particular can play an important role in this. In diversifying our citations, networks and methods of collaboration, we can ensure increasing opportunities are available for underrepresented groups throughout the academic pipeline. As the next generation of scholars, postgraduate researchers can change the game for underrepresented groups, and ensuring we collaborate diversely is our superpower for doing so.

scholarly journals The Role of Beneficiaries in Transnational Regulatory Processes

2017 ◽  
Vol 670 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Koenig-Archibugi ◽  
Kate Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Regulatory Process ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Corporate Power ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Fair Labor Association

The editors of this volume highlight the role of intermediaries, alongside regulators and targets, as a way to better understand the outcomes of regulatory processes. Here, we explore the benefits of distinguishing a fourth category of actors: the groups whose interests the rules are meant to protect, the (intended) beneficiaries. We apply that framework to nonstate regulation of labor conditions, where the primary intended beneficiaries are workers and their families, especially in poorer countries. We first outline the different ways in which beneficiaries can relate to regulators, intermediaries, and targets; we then develop conjectures about the effect of different relationships on regulatory impacts and democratic legitimacy in relation to corporate power structures, specifically those embedded in the governance of global supply chains. We illustrate these conjectures primarily with examples from three initiatives—Rugmark, the Fair Labor Association, and the Fairtrade system. We conclude that it matters whether and how beneficiaries are included in the regulatory process.

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