Nehring, Daniel

Affective Capitalism in Academia Revealing Public Secrets - Policy Press 2023 - 1 online resource

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Chapter 9 EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on affect theory and research on academic capitalism, this book examines the contemporary crisis of universities. With 11 international and comparative case studies, it offers a unique exploration of the contemporary role of affect in academic labour and the organisation of scholarship and explores diverse features of contemporary academic life, from the coloniality of academic capitalism to performance management and the experience of being performance-managed.


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Educational administration and organization
Higher education, tertiary education
Sociology: work and labour

Academia; Academic labour; Affective capitalism; Counterpolitics; Higher education; Marketisation; Neoliberalism; Power; Social justice; University