Love and Ryanair : academic researchers’ mobility

Giorgi, Alberta; Raffini, Luca

doi:10.4000/sociologico.1327

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“…Women in academia are generally less mobile than their male counterparts, especially at later career stages, which can be attributed to traditional gender roles and the intersection of sexism and ageism in recruitment practices (Giorgi and Raffini 2015;Leemann 2010). They are also less likely to participate in international mobility as academic hosts (Jöns 2011).…”

Section: Mapping Multiple Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Migrant academics' de-territorialised and re-territorialised positions were characterised by precariousness, involving a range of affective considerations and hidden injuries including the insecurity of short-term contracts and visa arrangements, second-class citizenship and transient relationships (Giorgi and Raffini 2015;Hoffman 2009;Richardson and Zikic 2007). The social impact of re-location can be a form of dislocation and displacement, requiring active engagement with 'otherness' (Kim 2010).…”

Section: Hidden Injuries: the Materialities Of Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Internationalisation and migrant academics: the hidden narratives of mobility

Morley

Alexiadou

Garaz³

et al. 2018

High Educ

142

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Internationalisation is a dominant policy discourse in the field of higher education today, driven by an assemblage of economic, social and educational concerns. It is often presented as an ideologically neutral, coherent, disembodied, knowledge-driven policy intervention-an unconditional good. Mobility is one of the key mechanisms through which internationalisation occurs, and is perceived as a major form of professional and identity capital in the academic labour market. Yet, questions remain about whether opportunity structures for mobility are unevenly distributed among different social groups and geopolitical spaces. While research studies and statistical data are freely available about the flows of international students, there is far less critical attention paid to the High Educ

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Section: Mapping Multiple Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Hidden Injuries: the Materialities Of Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Internationalisation and migrant academics: the hidden narratives of mobility

Morley

Alexiadou

Garaz³

et al. 2018

High Educ

142

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“…Researchers have raised concerns about mobility as a mechanism for enhancing neoliberalism in academia (Bauder 2015), spatial inequalities (Brooks and Waters 2011), structured inequalities (Sang 2017;Leemann et al 2010;Herschberg et al 2018) and the hegemony of Western academia (van Oorschot 2014). For example, women are less likely to be mobile suggesting the persistence of gender roles and structured inequalities in institutional practices (Giorgi and Raffini 2015). Furthermore, early career researchers are more likely to be internationally mobile in an effort to establish their research profile (Auriol et al 2013).…”

Section: What Is Known and How Academic Mobility Can Be Conceptualisedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stickiness in academic career (im)mobilities of STEM early career researchers: an insight from Greece

Tzanakou

2020

High Educ

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Academic and policy discourse has idealised academic mobility despite studies showing that it can have adverse effects on individuals’ experiences and contribute towards exacerbating existing inequalities. This article focuses on career immobility stories of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) early career researchers that are variously sticky with emotion and affect. It places emphasis on the challenges, frictions and emotional tensions for early career researchers as part of this decision-making, irrespective of whether they decide to move or not. To do this, it deploys the concept of stickiness, which allows investigating the intersection and co-construction of embodied experiences of early career academics with the internationalisation discourse of academic excellence which are not often brought together. Focused on a largely under-examined population and context, it is based on a qualitative analysis of 15 in-depth interviews with a subsample of survey respondents, as part of a mixed methods study of Greek researchers in STEM. This article compares two groups of early career researchers who are seemingly at odds but have a lot in common: those with a highly international outlook moving to build an international profile and those who decide to stay and pursue research aspirations within a national context. Stickiness is demonstrated in two ways: stickiness to establishing an international profile and an academic career dictated by the internationalisation discourse; stickiness to affective considerations which are temporal, fluid and often understated. The main difference is how early career researchers address this stickiness: through the normative international mobility or participation in collaborative funding programmes. This article shows academic mobility is not only associated with benefits but can entail negative implications for individuals. It also provides empirical insights into hidden STEM early career researchers and elaborates a concept of stickiness in academic immobility with discursive and affective layers, highlighting the importance of considering affect in career development scholarship.

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“…In Europe, the rise of the year-round, so-called 'city break' has followed a decline in the traditional two-week holiday and the growth of budget airlines across Europe. Youthful mobile types of the so-called 'Ryanair generation' (Giorgi and Raffini 2015) are the most prominent among the wave of low-cost tourists who squeeze in long-weekend jaunts across Europe. Primarily under the age of 40, these short-time city users are prone to following seemingly unconventional trajectories, fuelled by a desire to experience the city 'like a local'.…”

Section: Case 4: the One-week Stand And The Berlin Hates You Campaignmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bin ich ein Berliner? Graffiti as layered public archive and socio-ecological methodology

Valisena

Norum

2019

Green Letters

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In this article, we discuss the role played by graffiti in representing, fomenting and studying binary and non-binary sentiments of 'us' and 'them'. Through asocio-textual analysis of examples of public anti-gentrification and anti-touristification protest graffiti in Berlin, we consider the complex layers of history, identity, mobility, community and environment which have been folded onto one another throughout the city over the past decades. By investigating the textual politics of belonging and self as shown through the lens of graffiti, we argue that representational analyses of so-called banal public texts can help to comprehend the complexities that lie behind binary socio-cultural categories (e.g. local/non-local. In exploring some of the defining characteristics that distinguish ecocritical from environmental humanities approaches to critique, the article posits how multiple disciplines-even those well outside humanities subjects-might well be able to benefit from the humanities' distinct approaches to cultural, or indeed social, analysis.

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Love and Ryanair : academic researchers’ mobility

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

Internationalisation and migrant academics: the hidden narratives of mobility

Internationalisation and migrant academics: the hidden narratives of mobility

Stickiness in academic career (im)mobilities of STEM early career researchers: an insight from Greece

Bin ich ein Berliner? Graffiti as layered public archive and socio-ecological methodology

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