Contextualizing and organizing contingent faculty : reclaiming academic labor in universities /: reclaiming academic labor in universities. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ishmael I. Munene.
• Authors: Munene, Ishmael I
• Other Names: Abawi, Zuhra contributor.; Berry, Joe T contributor.; Soyoung, Choi contributor.; Demirkasımoğlu, Nihan contributor.; Kraft, Tiffany contributor.; Little, Kristin contributor.; Munene, Ishmael I contributor.; Ogachi, Ibrahim O contributor.; Park, Sungok R contributor.; Rys, Sean contributor.; Sifuna, Daniel N contributor.; Smith, Joel contributor.; Stone, Brian A contributor.; Stone, Sandra J contributor.; Timmerman, Nora contributor.; Wane, Njoki Nathan contributor.; Winkler, Philippa contributor.; Worthen, Helena contributor.
• Contents: List of Figures ; List of Tables ; Acknowledgments ; Foreword: Contingency at the Crossroads ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Guy Senese ; ; Part One: University Transformation and Faculty Agency ; ; Chapter One: Introduction: The Casualization of Academic Labor & Faculty Agency ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Ishmael I. Munene ; Chapter Two: Prometheus Redefined: Theorizing & Contextualizing Contingent Faculty in Universities ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Ishmael I. Munene ; Chapter Three: The Metro Strategy: A workforce-appropriate, geography-based approach to organizing contingent faculty ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Joe Berry and Helena Worthen ; ; Part Two: Reclaiming the Faculty Narrative in the United States ; ; Chapter Four: Vulnerable, But Not Silent: Unpacking Discourses of Fear Surrounding NTT Faculty ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Nora Timmerman ; Chapter Five: Notes from the Field: Mobilizing Non-Tenure Track Faculty at the University of Arizona ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Sean Rys, Joel Smith, and Kristin Little ; Chapter Six: Reclaiming Academic Labor in a Democratic State: Mediating the Neoliberal University Assault on the Professoriate ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Tiffany Kraft ; Chapter Seven: The Theft of Adjunct Faculty Labor Time: Theorizing Exchange Value and Resistance from a Marxist Perspective ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Philippa Winkler ; Chapter Eight: Democracy, Shared Governance, and Academic Freedom for All Faculty ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Brian A. Stone and Sandra J. Stone ; ; Part Three: Global Cases of Faculty Narrative and Agency ; ; Chapter Nine: Non-Tenured Academics and the Dilemma of the Academic Profession in Kenyan Universities ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Daniel N. Sifuna and Ibrahim O. Oanda ; Chapter Ten: Tenure and Non-Tenure Track Systems in Turkish Academia: Current Status and Future Prospects ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Nihan Demirkasımoğlu ; Chapter Eleven: The Beginnings of Resistance among Part-time Instructors in South Korea ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Sungok R. Park and Choi Soyung ; Chapter Twelve: Disposable Academics: Neoliberalism, Anti-Intellectualism and the Rise of Contingent Faculty in Canadian Universities ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Njoki Nathani Wane and Zuhra Abawi ; Chapter Thirteen: Afterthought: Unchaining Prometheus and Decaualizing Academic Labor ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Ishmael I. Munene ; ; References ; About the Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 378.122; Universities and colleges -- Faculty; Organizational effectiveness; Labor movement
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498539555
• Related ISBNs: 9781498539548
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