Between Career Progression and Career Stagnation: Casualisation, Tenure, and the Contract of Indefinite Duration in Ireland

Ivancheva, Mariya; O’Flynn, Micheal

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-49324-8_10

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“…Administrative work, answering emails, assessments, preparation work and pastoral care are not recognized in job competitions (Courtois & O’Keefe, ). Precarious research and teaching staff are thus pitted against each other to compete over scarce resources and only a few achieve permanency (Ivancheva & O’Flynn, ).…”

Section: Bringing Care Into the Discussion Of Academic Precaritymentioning

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“…The affective inequality experienced by women on the top of the academic hierarchy shows that contractual stability is not enough to fix the 24/7 culture of working that has become normalized in neoliberal academia (Lynch, ). Instead of speaking of work–life balance, a term that presumes boundaries between care work and paid employment, we solicit a more complex understanding of a lifeworld–work continuum, in which secure and stable work should be based on principles of collegiality, community and care that have been eroded by the competitive culture, lack of contractual security and recurrent mobility in the neoliberal academia (Ivancheva, ; Ivancheva & O’Flynn, ).…”

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Precarity, gender and care in the neoliberal academy

Ivancheva

Lynch²,

Keating³

2019

Gender Work & Organization

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This article examines the rise in precarious academic employment in Ireland as an outcome of the higher education restructuring following OECD (Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development), government initiatives and post‐crisis austerity. Presenting the narratives of academic women at different career stages, we claim that a focus on care sheds new light on the debate on precarity. A more complete understanding of precarity should take account not only of the contractual security but also affective relational security in the lives of employees. The intersectionality of paid work and care work lives was a dominant theme in our interviews among academic women. In a globalized academic market, premised on the care‐free masculinized ideals of competitive performance, 24/7 work and geographical mobility, women who opt out of these norms, suffer labour‐led contractual precarity and are over‐represented in part‐time and fixed‐term positions. Women who comply with these organizational commands need to peripheralize their relational lives and experience care‐led affective precarity.

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Section: Bringing Care Into the Discussion Of Academic Precaritymentioning

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Precarity, gender and care in the neoliberal academy

Ivancheva

Lynch²,

Keating³

2019

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Last but not least, we wished to see whether and how anthropologists are involved in initiatives that are fighting some of the developments well documented in neoliberal academia: in other words, what is the role of academic trade unions and other forms of institutional and self-organising across the continent? Is the reported national-level challenge of trade unions to defend the prerogatives of permanent fee-paying members against those of precarious faculty, and the push in many national union structures away from collective bargaining towards case work 27 also reflected in our discipline? Do workers in such a social-justice-oriented field such as anthropology, manage to self-organise, or as elsewhere, are they 'claimants' confined to taking individual cases in isolation from the community and under the threat of being deemed 'trouble-makers'?…”

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THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL CAREER IN EUROPE: A complete report on the EASA membership survey

Fotta¹,

Ivancheva²,

Perneş

2020

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This report presents the results of the survey conducted among EASA members in 2018. The survey was a collaboration between EASA and the PrecAnthro Collective, whose members have worked together and mobilised since 2016 to raise awareness about the challenges of developing an academic career in anthropology. The themes explored in the survey reflect existing academic research on changes to the academic profession and the casualisation of labour in Europe and beyond. The survey enquired into the extent to which and how trends already documented in other disciplines, and in academia as a whole, affect anthropologists. These trends include a growing division between research and teaching, the deprofessionalisation of academic labour through multiple contract types, the imperatives of international mobility and cyclical fundraising, and weak labour unions. This report captures overall trends as well as regional differences in the anthropological profession in Europe.

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“…As Ivancheva and O’Flynn () discuss, neoliberal reforms introduced since the 1980s have turned academic institutions today into competing enterprises and higher education into a profitable commodity in the context of which labour relations are characterised by flexibility. The global economic crisis of 2008 intensified this process in many countries around the world.…”

Section: Precarity Precariat Cognitariatmentioning

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The vicious circle of precarity: cognitariats in the era of austerity and authoritarianism

Voulvouli

2019

Soc Anthropol

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Based on ethnographic material produced during the last six years in Greece and Turkey, this paper will discuss the trajectory of three scholars who sought academic refuge in Turkey to escape the precarity that austerity policies created in their own country, Greece. They were forced out of their jobs, and consequently Turkey, when caught in the middle of the Turkish government’s authoritarian outburst following the failed coup attempt of July 2016. Drawing on approaches that construe precarity as a normality in all labour groups, including academics, and the authoritarianism inflicted on academia as an assault on civil liberties by the regime aimed at preventing academics from mounting a serious challenge to the incumbent, I will try to illustrate two things: (a) that for the cognitariat, precarity that results from austerity policies differs little from precarity that results from authoritarian policies and (b) that structural precarity has the tendency to reproduce itself through the disciplining mechanisms of these two types of governmentality.

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Between Career Progression and Career Stagnation: Casualisation, Tenure, and the Contract of Indefinite Duration in Ireland

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Precarity, gender and care in the neoliberal academy

Precarity, gender and care in the neoliberal academy

THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL CAREER IN EUROPE: A complete report on the EASA membership survey

The vicious circle of precarity: cognitariats in the era of austerity and authoritarianism

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