Power at the Interfaces: The Contested Orderings of Academic Presents and Futures in a Social Science Department

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F14%3A00434405" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/14:00434405 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/hep.2014.20" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/hep.2014.20</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/hep.2014.20" target="_blank" >10.1057/hep.2014.20</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Power at the Interfaces: The Contested Orderings of Academic Presents and Futures in a Social Science Department

Original language description

The changes in and transformations of academic institutions and practices we are currently witnessing are complex. I argue that there are no clear-cut historical transitions between different regimes of science, such as from the public knowledge regime?to academic capitalism?. Drawing upon John Law?s analysis of modes of ordering?, I investigated the multiplicity of academic realities at a leading social science department at a university in the Czech Republic. Using ethnographic data generated duringmy fieldwork in the department in 2006?2008, I explore how the modes of ordering operate and how they are strategically mobilised by different actors. In contrast to Law, I particularly focus on the interfaces and switches between modes, where, I observe, power is prominently enacted. I conclude by arguing that resistance to the rising managerial governance of universities cannot simply resort to citing the traditional? academic values of autonomy, vocation and internal quality but must

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP404%2F11%2F0127" target="_blank" >GAP404/11/0127: Mass higher education in institutional settings: ethnography of academic departments in the Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Higher Education Policy (The Quarterly Journal of the International Association of Universities)

ISSN

0952-8733

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

435-451

UT code for WoS article

000344969700002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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