Precarity Reading List
Articles
Berg, L.D., Huijbens, E.H. and Larsen, H.G., (2016)
"Producing anxiety in the neoliberal university"
The Canadian Geographer/le géographe canadien, 60(2), pp.168-180.
Burton S, Bowman B (2022)
"The academic precariat: understanding life and labour in the neoliberal academy"
British Journal of Sociology of Education 43(4) pp.497-512
Cinnamon, J. (2020)
"Power in numbers/Power and numbers: Gentle data activism as strategic collaboration"
Area 00 pp.1-16
Evans, B., Allam, A, Bê, A., Hale, C., Rose, M., and Ruddock, A. (2024)
"Being left behind beyond recovery: ‘crip time’ and chronic illness in neoliberal academia"
Social & Cultural Geography https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2024.2410262
Gilmore, S., & Harding, N. (2022)
"Organizational socialization as kin-work: A psychoanalytic model of settling into a new job"
Human Relations, 75(3), 583-605.
Guasco, A. (2022)
"On an ethic of not going there"
The Geographical Journal 188 pp.468–475
Hall, R. & Bowles, K. (2016)
"Re-engineering Higher Education: The Subsumption of Academic Labour and the Exploitation of Anxiety"
Workplace 28 pp.30-47.
Hawkins, H. (2019)
"Creating care-full academic spaces? The dilemmas of caring in the ‘anxiety machine’"
ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 18(4) pp.816-834.
Horton, J. (2020)
Hughes, S. M. (2021)
“Wait for a permanent contract”: The temporal politics of (in) fertility as an early career researcher.
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(8), 1725-1736.
Iglesias, C. and Freeman, E. (2024)
"As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone”
Science [Available from: As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone | Science | AAAS Date Accessed: 2nd November 2024]
Ivancheva, M., Lynch, K., & Keating, K. (2019)
"Precarity, gender and care in the neoliberal academy"
Gender, Work & Organization, 26(4), 448-462
Jones, C. H., & Whittle, R. (2021)
"Researcher selfâcare and caring in the research community"
Area, 53(2), 381-388.
Joanes, J., & Joyce, M. A. (2022)
"At Breaking Point: An Intervention On Resilience Within The UK Academy"
SENTIO, 111
Loveday, V. (2018)
"The neurotic academic: Anxiety, casualisation, and governance in the neoliberalising university."
Journal of Cultural Economy, 11(2), pp.154-166.
Mason, O., & Megoran, N. (2021)
"Precarity and dehumanisation in higher education"
Learning and Teaching, 14(1), 35-59.
Menard, C. B., & Shinton, S. (2022)
"The career paths of researchers in long-term employment on short-term contracts: Case study from a UK university"
Plos one, 17(9), e0274486. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0274486
Myers, M. (2022)
"Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education"
British Journal of Sociology of Education 43(4): 584–602.
Nordling, L. (2023)
"Falling Behind: Postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold"
Nature Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold
O’Keefe, T. and A. Courtois (2019)
"‘Not one of the family’: Gender and precarious work in the neoliberal university."
Gender, Work and Organization 26(4): 463–479.
Oliver, C. (2022)
"“Significant nothingness” in geographical fieldwork."
Geoforum, 134, pp.82-85.
Peters, K. (2021)
"For the place of terrain and materialist ‘re’-returns: Experience, life, force, and the importance of the socio-cultural"
Dialogues in Human Geography, 11(2), 195-199
Pascoe, S., Sanders, A., Rawluk, A., Satizábal, P., & Toumbourou, T. (2020)
Intervention—“Holding Space for Alternative Futures in Academia and Beyond”.
Antipode Online. Intervention – “Holding Space for Alternative Futures in Academia and Beyond” - Antipode Online
Pickerill, J. (2024)
"Challenging neoliberal time: Creating space for radical praxis in geography"
Area, e12981
Todd, J. D. (2020)
"Experiencing and embodying anxiety in spaces of academia and social research"
Gender, Place & Culture, 28(4), 475–496. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2020.1727862
Zielke, J., Thompson, M., & Hepburn, P. (2022)
"On the (im) possibilities of being a good enough researcher at a neoliberal university"
Area.
Books
Bonello, M., and Wånggren, L. (2023)
Working Conditions in a Marketised University System: Generation Precarity.
Palgrave Macmillan.
Murgia, A. and Poggio, B. (2018)
"Gender and precarious research careers"
London: Routledge
Reports
Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) (2022)
"Workload survey 2021 Data report"
UCU https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/12905/UCU-workload-survey-2021-data-report/pdf/WorkloadReportJune22.pdf
Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) (2023)
"Workload survey 2021/22 Higher Education"
Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) (2024)
"Precarious work in higher education: Insecure contracts and how they have changed over time"
Websites
Counter Cartographies Collective
Universities and Colleges Union (UCU)
Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) - Edinburgh
Blog Posts
Brax, D. (2024)
"Living on Hope? Reflections on 'Hope Labour' in Academia"
Lex Academic - Guest Blog Living on Hope? Reflections on ‘Hope Labour’ in Academia | Lex Academic Guest Blog - Lex Academic
Shahid, S. (2021)
"Understanding Academic Precarity with Iris Marion Young: Who’s Responsible?"
Blog of the APA https://blog.apaonline.org/2021/12/31/understanding-academic-precarity-with-iris-marion-young-whos-responsible/
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