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Shifting landscapes: from coalface to quick sand? Teaching geography, earth and environmental sciences in UK higher education [PDF]

, 2016
In this paper we examine contemporary academic working lives, with particular reference to teaching-only and teaching-focused academics. We argue that intensification in the neoliberal university has significantly shifted the structure of academic ...
Angervall, Bauder, Bearman, Cashmore, Castree, Chappell, Dowling, Ellis, Gill, Hall, Hellsten, HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency), House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, Kahn, Locke, Maddrell, May, Ní Laoire, Park, Peters, Posecznick, Probert, Purcell, Rossi, Shelton, Sidaway, Sidaway, Wainwright   +27 more
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

Exclusionary employment in Britain’s broken labour market [PDF]

, 2016
There is growing evidence of the problematic nature of the UK’s ‘flexible labour market’ with rising levels of in-work poverty and insecurity. Yet successive Governments have stressed that paid work is the route to inclusion, focussing attention on the ...
Aldridge H, Bailey N, Bailey N, Barnes M, Berghman J, Blond P, Burchardt T, Byrne D, Coote A, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Eurofound, Eurofound, Gallie D, Gordon D, House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee, Kenway P, Levitas R, Levitas R, Millward N, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Pantazis C, Platt L, Scottish Government, Skinner C, Standing G, Thompson S, Tomlinson M   +32 more
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the ‘Creative Industries’ [PDF]

, 2011
234 p. : il., Tablas.Libro ElectrónicoLa creatividad siempre está en movimiento: surge, se establece en el ente colectivo, palidece y desaparece a veces en el olvido; renace, vuelve con innovaciones, se reformula y resurge iniciando de nuevo el ciclo.
Raunig, Gerald (Ed.), Ray, Gene (Ed.), Wuggenig, Ulf (Ed.)   +2 more
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The political economy of precarious work in the tourism industry in small island developing states [PDF]

, 2014
International tourism is now the predominant industry driving growth in many small island developing states (SIDS). Governments of small islands in the Indian Ocean, Caribbean and Pacific have seemingly put most of their eggs into one development basket –
Hampton, Mark P., Jeyacheya, Julia, Lee, Donna   +2 more
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
wiley   +1 more source

Opposing book bans: a resilient and subversive information practice

Information Research: An International Electronic Journal
Introduction. In this paper, we discuss the concepts of censorship, resilience and information precarity. We explain the framework of information precarity and emphasise the agentic responses of marginalised communities, then show that book bans ...
Shannon M. Oltmann, Fatima Espinoza Vasquez   +1 more
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How Does Academic Citizenship at Research‐Intense Universities Affect the Future of Teaching?

Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The future of the teaching profession in academia is closely linked to the prevailing model of research‐intensive universities. It also depends on the ways in which institutions choose to navigate this ideal—either by promoting positions that combine teaching and research or by separating the two into distinct career paths.
Lotta Snickare, Inga‐Lill Söderberg
wiley   +1 more source

Precarity – Logical Consequence of Societies that Lost the Social [PDF]

The essay proposes an alternative understanding of social policy, focussing on social quality and as such bringing together biographical and societal development and as well institutional and communal concerns.
Herrmann, Peter
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