The Segmentation of Academic Labour

Bauder, Harald

doi:10.32920/ryerson.14638986

“…While there are parallels to be drawn with this literature such as corporatization of higher education sausage factory (Smith 2000), intensification, contractualization of academic workforce (Hey 2001), segmentation of faculty into tenured and flexible tenures, etc. (Bauder 2005) that introduce the problematic of labour to academic work, practice, and values (Winn 2015); we extend this literature by analysing the experience of doctoral students as cognitive workers juggling corporatization of academia as well as postcolonial anxiety vis-à-vis a "competent scholar".…”

Section: Academic Labour As Cognitive Labourmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Arora

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Sarkar²

2023

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The paper rekindles a three-decade-old debate in the annals of Indian anthropology / sociology which became dormant after no significant headway was made. The debate which goes by the name of “crisis in sociology” in India provides the backdrop against which the paper makes sense of current regimes of knowledge production that a doctoral candidate in India must navigate. By doing so, the paper reflects on the limitations of epistemological critiques wherein an epistemic critique stops at the corridors of an academic workplace. The paper argues that doctoral candidates in India today are cognitive workers engaged in exploitative relations of knowledge production. However, these exploitative relations are obfuscated by the postcolonial epistemological critiques that indulge in foregrounding the hegemony of the North / West. The paper proposes an infrastructural critique of knowledge that does not respond with despair to perceived transformations and crises.

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“…While there are parallels to be drawn with this literature such as corporatization of higher education sausage factory (Smith 2000), intensification, contractualization of academic workforce (Hey 2001), segmentation of faculty into tenured and flexible tenures, etc. (Bauder 2005) that introduce the problematic of labour to academic work, practice, and values (Winn 2015); we extend this literature by analysing the experience of doctoral students as cognitive workers juggling corporatization of academia as well as postcolonial anxiety vis-à-vis a "competent scholar".…”

Section: Academic Labour As Cognitive Labourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anthropological Knowledge and Power Relations

2022

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“…When high quality is limited to one or few institutions in the country, inbreeding may happen (Berelson, 1960;Eisenberg & Wells, 2000;Horta et al, 2011;Horta & Yudkevich, 2016;Wells et al, 1979). However, some suggest that institutions might prioritize hiring their own alumni, expecting that it will diminish risk and the cost of further training (Bauder, 2006;Blossfeld & Mayer, 1988;Doeringer & Piore, 1971;May et al, 2013;Rosenblum & Rosenblum, 1990). Torre et al (2021) imply that in Spain, field specialization is also a factor.…”

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Outlining inbreeding in the Brazilian higher education system

Grochocki

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Cabello

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2023

Higher Education Quarterly

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This study describes characteristics of academic inbreeding in the Brazilian higher education system. Results show the rate of inbreeding significantly differs among distinct types of institutions, fields of knowledge, states and university ranking tiers. According to this study, inbreeding is most likely to be found in established elite research institutions, concentrated in the Southeast of Brazil, in the STEM fields. These also happen to be the main providers and most prestigious consumers of the well‐trained local academic workforce, supporting the conclusion that both internal and external factors could be influencing the high concentration of inbred scholars at prominent alma maters. It contributes to international literature by evaluating the role of individual characteristics and by showing how the expansion of higher education to more geographically distant areas may establish different patterns of inbreeding.

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The Segmentation of Academic Labour

Abstract: The Segmentation of Academic Labour

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Outlining inbreeding in the Brazilian higher education system

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