Academography

Critical Ethnography & Higher Education

[now an archived project]

[Academography @academography]

Welcome to Academography!

There’s more and more great ethnography of higher education, but so much of it is hard to find.

The point of this project is to bring this set of work together.

https://t.co/FWQcyUSI6B

[Academography @academography]

i'll leave the website up until the domain name expires next year.

[Academography @academography]

hi everybody.

alas, i have to discontinue this (always struggling) project, because precarity has driven me out of the academy.

i still believe in critical ethnography of universities.

at least, in what it could be.

a pity the work gets so little institutional support.

- eli

[Academography @academography]

@cryptid_enya @ilowrie I wondered if you had any suggestions?

[Academography @academography]

beyond the sensational title, this is an amazing essay about the material realities of scraping by, and about the cruelty and cluelessness of so many tenured faculty.

https://t.co/PsgXkoBvE2

[Academography @academography]

"Managing the condition of unaffiliated scholarship" — a very wonderful category of analysis!

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"Adjunct Barbie™ is a part-time college instructor who’s almost, but not quite, ready to give up on her dreams."

(Someone is going to write about this text, right? The cultural representations of precarity are always so remarkable…)

https://t.co/4byuMP4stU

[Academography @academography]

On the politics of queer studies in the U.S:

https://t.co/vrERNaP9A7

This journalistic piece is not really a definitive analysis of the field, but the data about high student/activist demand for the courses is very interesting.

[Academography @academography]

Interesting for those of us who follow global histories of student protest!

[New Naratif @NewNaratif]

Protests have been erupting across #Indonesia in the last 2 weeks, led largely by students, in the biggest student movement ever witnessed in Indonesia since 1998

[Eli Meyerhoff 🍉 @EliMeye]

This conference on abolitionist university studies is going to be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

- in Durham, NC at Duke Univ. on 10/11-10/12 — free!

- info and RSVP here:
https://t.co/T7Z2rztssl

[Eli Meyerhoff 🍉 @EliMeye]

THREAD on the 10-year anniversary of students occupying a building at UC Santa Cruz — a powerful action that built radical community and opened horizons for studying and world-making beyond the capitalist university.

[Adam Fleischmann @afleisch_anthro]

Reminder: from 2005-2015, tenure-track positions at Canadian universities fell to 10%, while adjunct positions grew to 79%
Rappel: entre 2005 & 2015, le nombre de professeurs permanent a diminué de 10%, alors que le no. de chargés de cours a bondi de 79%

https://t.co/tExbupzSiD

[Academography @academography]

Just discovered the UK-based Society for Research into Higher Education. They seem to have an interesting blog; here's a piece on whether "academic capitalism" is a good category:

https://t.co/TfT1zpYc49

[Academography @academography]

so much about precarity can't easily be said without anonymity.

this account seems worth following:

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

i (part time worker on multiple contracts) am the longest surviving member of staff on my corridor at work. soooooo much precarity. empty offices and 1 yr contracts. such a sad time of year.

[Academography @academography]

Is there good research on the connections between precarious academic work and family formation?

"asking for a friend"

[Academography @academography]

"The effect of the Anthropocene on pedagogical practices in higher education"

A really interesting call for papers (in French) via @CypTasset

https://t.co/w3QyCkJS0Q

[Heather Gies @HeatherGies]

An incisive look at the experience of adjunct faculty in Puerto Rico, a situation made ever more precarious by Puerto Rico's overall "adjunct" status and the crushing austerity taking particular aim at the university and public education in general. @PROTESTAmosUPRM

[Shabana Mir @ShabanaMir1]

For no particular reason, I'd like to share ways universities can support faculty in family obligations.

Do you have any stories of such support or lack thereof?

[Academography @academography]

(From "Pregnancy and Bodies of Knowledge in a South African University," 2013.)

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Teresa Barnes recounts: "In the 1980s a woman applying for a job at [a] South African university had been asked in her job interview to promise as a condition of her prospective employment that she would not have any more children."

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