Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty

Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities

By (author) Ishmael I. Munene Contributions by Zuhra Abawi, Joe T. Berry, Choi Soyoung, Nihan Demirkasimoglu, Tiffany Kraft, Kristin Little, Ishmael I. Munene, Ibrahim O. Ogachi, Sungok R. Park, Sean Rys, Daniel N. Sifuna Kenyatta University, Joel Smith, Brian A. Stone, Sandra J. Stone Ed.D., Professor Emeritus, Nora Timmerman, Njoki Nathan Wane, Philippa Winkler, Helena Worthen

Publication date:

15 February 2018

Length of book:

278 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

237x159mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781498539548

Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities seeks to develop a counterculture that eschews the neoliberal ideology and interloping market values in higher education. More than merely lamenting the disruptive effects of these marketplace values in higher education institutions, it develops both theoretical insights and practical organizing strategies pertinent to challenging new academic-capitalist values and behaviors. Contributors, local and international, present cases from various institutions to illuminate how national trends concerning contingent faculty are articulated, implemented, and challenged at the local level. They present organizing strategies which are analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective, providing a thorough and comprehensive view of the contingent labor movement. This book will provide useful lessons to a broad array of audiences in universities, labor movements, and national and local governments.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Contingency at the Crossroads
Guy Senese

Part One: University Transformation and Faculty Agency

Chapter One: Introduction: The Casualization of Academic Labor & Faculty Agency
Ishmael I. Munene
Chapter Two: Prometheus Redefined: Theorizing & Contextualizing Contingent Faculty in Universities
Ishmael I. Munene
Chapter Three: The Metro Strategy: A workforce-appropriate, geography-based approach to organizing contingent faculty
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
Nora Timmerman
Chapter Five: Notes from the Field: Mobilizing Non-Tenure Track Faculty at the University of Arizona
Sean Rys, Joel Smith, and Kristin Little
Chapter Six: Reclaiming Academic Labor in a Democratic State: Mediating the Neoliberal University Assault on the Professoriate
Tiffany Kraft
Chapter Seven: The Theft of Adjunct Faculty Labor Time: Theorizing Exchange Value and Resistance from a Marxist Perspective
Philippa Winkler
Chapter Eight: Democracy, Shared Governance, and Academic Freedom for All Faculty
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
Daniel N. Sifuna and Ibrahim O. Oanda
Chapter Ten: Tenure and Non-Tenure Track Systems in Turkish Academia: Current Status and Future Prospects
Nihan Demirkasımoğlu
Chapter Eleven: The Beginnings of Resistance among Part-time Instructors in South Korea
Sungok R. Park and Choi Soyung
Chapter Twelve: Disposable Academics: Neoliberalism, Anti-Intellectualism and the Rise of Contingent Faculty in Canadian Universities
Njoki Nathani Wane and Zuhra Abawi
Chapter Thirteen: Afterthought: Unchaining Prometheus and Decaualizing Academic Labor
Ishmael I. Munene

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About the Contributors

Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities offers significant insights into the ways academic labor has been reshaped through the market place, the reconfiguration of faculty power, and the reliance on contingent labor. This critical text provides a remarkable array of historical, economic, and political analyses centered on one institution while also developing parallels on how these issues play out in global contexts. The volume moves beyond an analysis of the ways in which contingent labor is used/abused to move to provide strategies for envisioning how pressure can be put on institutions to promote transformational change.