TY - JOUR
T1 - Deferred time in the neoliberal university
T2 - experiences of doctoral candidates and early career academics
AU - Bosanquet, Agnes
AU - Mantai, Lilia
AU - Fredericks, Vanessa
PY - 2020/8/17
Y1 - 2020/8/17
N2 - In the neoliberal university, how do doctoral candidates (PhDs) and early career academics (ECAs) experience time? This analysis brings together two qualitative studies in Australian universities: interviews with 64 PhD candidates, and a survey of 522 ECAs on teaching and research experience, and identity and career development. The data is analysed using Ylijoki and Mäntylä’s (2003. “Conflicting Time Perspectives in Academic Work.” Time & Society 12 (1): 55–78. doi:10.1177/0961463X03012001364) categories of academic time: scheduled, timeless, contracted and personal. Reading Derrida’s Specters of Marx (1994) enables us to extend this framework to include deferred time. We argue that the dominant affect of deferred time is anxiety. As political subjects of the university, following Derrida’s line of argument, participants are in a deferred state of waiting for academic careers that are yet to come.
AB - In the neoliberal university, how do doctoral candidates (PhDs) and early career academics (ECAs) experience time? This analysis brings together two qualitative studies in Australian universities: interviews with 64 PhD candidates, and a survey of 522 ECAs on teaching and research experience, and identity and career development. The data is analysed using Ylijoki and Mäntylä’s (2003. “Conflicting Time Perspectives in Academic Work.” Time & Society 12 (1): 55–78. doi:10.1177/0961463X03012001364) categories of academic time: scheduled, timeless, contracted and personal. Reading Derrida’s Specters of Marx (1994) enables us to extend this framework to include deferred time. We argue that the dominant affect of deferred time is anxiety. As political subjects of the university, following Derrida’s line of argument, participants are in a deferred state of waiting for academic careers that are yet to come.
KW - academic work
KW - doctoral candidates: early career academics
KW - neoliberalism
KW - time
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087643133&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13562517.2020.1759528
DO - 10.1080/13562517.2020.1759528
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087643133
SN - 1356-2517
VL - 25
SP - 736
EP - 749
JO - Teaching in Higher Education
JF - Teaching in Higher Education
IS - 6
ER -