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Book SynopsisDrawing on affect theory and research on academic capitalism and 11 international case studies, this book examines the contemporary crisis of universities, from the coloniality of academic capitalism to performance management and the experience of being performance-managed.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Academic capitalism and the affective organisation of academic labour - Kristiina Brunila and Daniel Nehring Part I: Structures 2. The Labour Pains of Academic Capitalism in Crisis - Lew Zipin and Marie Brennan 3. Deepened Coloniality, Heightened structuralism: Implications for Intellectual thought and praxis in the Caribbean - Talia Esnard 4. Academic patriarchal (post)liberal capitalism - Demetra Tzanaki Part II: Relationships 5. The storytelling and storyselling of neoliberal academic work - Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen and Paola Valero 6. Exploring the Academic and Affective Leadership in Academia - Kristiina Brunila 7. Friendship in academia: the moral economy of academic work - Erika Andersson Cederholm, Carina Sjöholm and Dianne Dredge 8. What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker: An uncanny story of contemporary academic life - Mark Vicars Part III: Performance 9. Academy in my flesh: Affective athleticism and performative writing - Silvia Gherardi, Michela Cozza and Magnus Hoppe 10. Getting Texts Done: Affective Rhythms of Reading in Quantified Academia - Juhana Venäläinen 11. Performance Management: Western Universities, Chinese Entrepreneurs, and Students on Stage - Amir Hampel 12. What’s the point? A few thoughts instead of a conclusion - Daniel Nehring and Kristiina Brunila
