Not the Asian You Had in Mind: Race, Precarity, and Academic Labor

Attewell, Nadine

doi:10.1215/00138282-54.2.183

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“…Notably, while the pain of working in universities has been expressed by people of all genders, races, employment statuses and levels of seniority, a key feature of much writing on the problems with the contemporary academy has been produced by those whose bodies, desires, social background or beliefs mark them as 'different' from the white, middle-class norm. This has been an incredibly rich scholarship with significant transformational power, now held up by many academics as examples of critical injustices that institutions must address, as well as a cause of considerable friction, simplified and dismissed as 'identity politics' (see, for example, Ahmed, 2012;Attewell, 2016;Black and Garvis, 2018;Brown and Leigh, 2018;Garrod et al, 2017;Matthew, 2016;Pereira, 2017). This section attends to this conversation because of the way it conforms to a model whereby ethics arises from the pleasures and pains of the academic body, and yet is one of the few places where questions have been raised about the usefulness of this form of selfhood.…”

Section: Suffering Bodies and The Absent Normmentioning

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Academic Emotions

Barclay

2021

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The University is an institution that disciplines the academic self. As such it produces both a particular emotional culture and, at times, the emotional suffering of those who find such disciplinary practices discomforting. Drawing on a rich array of writing about the modern academy by contemporary academics, this Element explores the emotional dynamics of the academy as a disciplining institution, the production of the academic self, and the role of emotion in negotiating power in the ivory tower. Using methodologies from the History of Emotion, it seeks to further our understanding of the relationship between the institution, emotion and the self.

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Section: Suffering Bodies and The Absent Normmentioning

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Academic Emotions

Barclay

2021

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Imponiendo la precariedad: maquinaciones burocráticas, complicidad y jerarquías de la Academia

Touhouliotis¹

2018

Rev. Dialectol. Trad. Popul.

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SUMMARYAdjunct is the term used in the United States to refer to the contingent instructors that work in higher education with poor pay, no benefits and short-term contracts. Adjuncts now make up the majority of the teaching professoriate at United States colleges and universities. Drawing on three years' experience working as an adjunct, the author offers an account of precarity in academia in the United States. While academic precarity is often assumed to affect all adjuncts equally, race, gender and class in fact lead to an uneven distribution, rendering certain bodies precarious even when they do not comprise adjuncts or contingent laborers. This makes it imperative to recognise that academic precarity encompasses a range of often incommensurable experiences. At the same time, discussions of precarity often overlook the complicity of full-time faculty staff and administrators who enforce precarity and reproduce hierarchies of academic lives by keeping adjuncts closed off from university resources and by asking them to work without compensation. How might a collective refusal of the reproduction of academic hierarchies be practiced without being depicted as evidence of not caring enough about our work? And how might such a refusal be a strategy for demanding better working conditions for all?

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Not the Asian You Had in Mind: Race, Precarity, and Academic Labor

Cited by 2 publications

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Academic Emotions

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Imponiendo la precariedad: maquinaciones burocráticas, complicidad y jerarquías de la Academia

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