Tenth Biennial Meeting of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) at Tulane University, New Orleans on February 21–22, 2014
Meeting Report Andrew van Horn Ruoss, Itinerario, Volume 38 Issue 02, pp 13-17Abstract
Archiv für September 2014
A Gentle Man of Many Talents: An Interview with Nicholas Tarling
| Case Report Leonard Blussé, Itinerario, Volume 38 Issue 02, pp 7-12 |
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Letter from the Editors
Letter Itinerario, Volume 38 Issue 02, pp 5-6Abstract
The Naturalistic Fallacy Is Modern
Lorraine Daston
Isis, Volume 105, Issue 3, Page 579-587, September 2014.
The Slow University: Work, Time and Well-Being
Applying the concept of slow to the university, in the context of increasing marketisation, managerialism and performance management, enables us to focus upon our experiences of work, time and well-being, the increasing pace and tempo of academic life …
Racing for What? Anticipation and Acceleration in the Work and Career Practices of Academic Life Science Postdocs
In the wake of contemporary new public management, the temporalities of academic work have undergone significant transformations. One key feature of these changes is a perceived acceleration of working pace. While this phenomenon is widely acknowledged in scholarship about the transforming universities, to date there are only few studies investigating its empirical details. Building on qualitative interviews with 38 postdoctoral life scientists in Austria, this article investigates how these researchers experience the temporalities of their work and career practices. Postdocs are particularly susceptible to the changing demands of academic work life, as they mostly inhabit fragile institutional positions while they aspire to establish themselves in academia. The experience of being in a highly competitive race that requires a continuously accelerating working pace as well as a strong focus on individual achievement is central to their narratives about working for a career in academia. Drawing on recent scholarship on anticipation (ADAMS, MURPHY & CLARKE, 2009), acceleration (ROSA, 2003) and the entrepreneurial self (BRÖCKLING, 2007), I develop the concepts of anticipatory acceleration and latent individualization to analytically capture postdocs‘ experiences of temporalities in the context of their work and career practices. In conclusion I discuss the possible impacts of these particular temporal orientations for the contents and formats of academic knowledge production and ask in how far concepts and movements such as „slow science“ help to address effects and problems of these specific forms of acceleration and anticipation.
Social Class, Gender and the Pace of Academic Life: What Kind of Solution is Slow?
My starting point for this article is the increasing pace of academic life. As the other articles in this special section evidence, the Slow movement, which seeks to challenge our contemporary obsession with speed, is being taken up by many in order to…
The Slow University: Inequality, Power and Alternatives
The slow university is said to be an alternative to the fast one. But what is behind speed at universities? In this article I argue that it is important not to fetishise speed or slowness and see them as autonomous processes, or the cause of their effe…
Slow Movement/Slow University: Critical Engagements. Introduction to the Thematic Section
This thematic section emerged from two seminars that took place at Durham University in England in November 2013 and March 2014 on the possibilities for thinking through what a change movement towards slow might mean for the University. Slow movements have emerged in relation to a number of topics: Slow food, Citta slow and more recently, slow science. What motivated us in the seminars was to explore how far these movements could help us address the acceleration and intensification of work within our own and other universities, and indeed, what new learning, research, philosophies, practices, structures and governance might emerge. This editorial introduction presents the concept of the „slow university“ and introduces our critical engagements with slow. The articles presented here interrogate the potentialities, challenges, problems and pitfalls of the slow university in an era of corporate culture and management rationality.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1403166
0097 Roger Fayet, Georg Schmidt und die Frage der künstlerischen Werte
As a theorist and curator, the Swiss art historian Georg Schmidt (1896-1965), director of the Kunstmuseum Basel from 1939 to 1961, developed a decidedly normative approach to art history, based on a philosophy which […]