Thinking about precaridad. On the critique of precarious reason

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-240
Author(s):  
Javier López Alós
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Spanish Word ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
Alternative Understanding

Following some arguments of his book Crítica de la razón precaria. La vida intelectual ante la obligación de lo extraordinario (2019), the author approaches the phenomenon of the intellectual precariousness pointing out its implications for subjectivity and knowledge. Considering the global nature of the neoliberal configuration of the educational and research practices, the Spanish word precariedad is used to encapsulate the interwoven meanings of precarity/precariousness. This presentation of the “precarious reason” concludes with the proposal of an alternative understanding of intellectual life from a plebeian perspective.

HIPAA: Impact on Research Practices

ASHA Leader ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 8-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Horner ◽  
Michael Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Research Practices

Book Reviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-179
Author(s):  
Deianira Ganga ◽  
B. Dilara Seker ◽  
Wadim Strielkowski ◽  
Tuncay Bilecen
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Irregular Migration ◽  
Ethnic Economy ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Global Nature

Ambrosini, Maurizio. Irregular Migration and Invisible Welfare. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 256 pages (ISBN: 9781137314321).Cohen, Jeffrey H., and Ibrahim Sirkeci. Cultures of Migration: The Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2011. xiv + 165 pages. (ISBN: 9780292726857). Dedeoğlu, Saniye. Migrants, Work and Social Integration: Women's Labour in the Turkish Ethnic Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 216 pages. (ISBN: 9781137371119)

Measuring academic research performance through audit at the expense of trust: Exploring the 21st Century University

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Holligan ◽  
Ibrahim Sirkeci
Keyword(s):  
Research Performance ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Reputation Management ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
University Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Audit Culture ◽  
Management Quality ◽  
Fiscal Austerity

British universities are experiencing a climate of fiscal austerity including severe budget cuts coupled with intensifying competition for markets have seen the emergence of audit culture which afflicts the public sector in general. This entails the risk to the integrity of university culture disappearing. This paper seeks to explore the interconnections between developing trends in universities which cause processes likely to undermine the objectivity and independence of research. We question that universities’ alignment with the capitalist business sector and the dominant market economy culture. Despite arguably positive aspects, there is a danger that universities may be dominated by hegemonic sectional interest rather than narratives of openness and democratically oriented critique. We also argue that audit culture embedded in reputation management, quality control and ranking hierarchies may necessarily promote deception while diminishing a collegiate culture of trust and pursuit of truth which is replaced by destructive impersonal accountability procedures. Such transitions inevitably contain insidious implications for the nature of the academy and undermine the values of academic-intellectual life.

Immanence and Micropolitics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Gilliam
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Political ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Conceptual Necessity ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Pure Immanence ◽  
Alternative Understanding

Christian Gilliam argues that a philosophy of ‘pure’ immanence is integral to the development of an alternative understanding of ‘the political’; one that re-orients our understanding of the self toward the concept of an unconscious or ‘micropolitical’ life of desire. He argues that here, in this ‘life’, is where the power relations integral to the continuation of post-industrial capitalism are most present and most at stake. Through proving its philosophical context, lineage and political import, Gilliam ultimately justifies the conceptual necessity of immanence in understanding politics and resistance, thereby challenging the claim that ontologies of ‘pure’ immanence are either apolitical or politically incoherent.

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