Creating a positive casual academic identity through change and loss

Yoo, JHC

Creating a positive casual academic identity through change and loss

Yoo, JHC

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Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education, 2019, pp. 89 - 107
Issue Date:: 2019

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dc.contributor.author	Yoo, JHC https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1654-3304	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Bottrell, D	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Manathunga, C	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:08:26Z
dc.date.issued	2019	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education, 2019, pp. 89 - 107	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-319-95833-0	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/133359
dc.description.abstract	Neoliberalism has significantly impacted higher education institutes across the globe by increasing the number of casual and non-continuing academic positions. Insecure employments conditions have not only affected the well-being of contingent staff, but it has also weakened the democratic, intellectual and moral standing of academic institutions. This chapter provides one practitioner’s account of the challenges of casual work, but rather than dwelling on the negativities, it outlines the potential richness of an identity based on insecurity and uncertainty. This exploration draws on the literature of retired academics and identity theory to illustrate the potential generative spaces within an undefined and incoherent identity.	en_US
dc.publisher	Palgrave Macmillan	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/978-3-319-95834-7_5	en_US
dc.title	Creating a positive casual academic identity through change and loss	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.location	Cham, Switzerland	en_US
utslib.for	1301 Education Systems	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Abstract:

Neoliberalism has significantly impacted higher education institutes across the globe by increasing the number of casual and non-continuing academic positions. Insecure employments conditions have not only affected the well-being of contingent staff, but it has also weakened the democratic, intellectual and moral standing of academic institutions. This chapter provides one practitioner’s account of the challenges of casual work, but rather than dwelling on the negativities, it outlines the potential richness of an identity based on insecurity and uncertainty. This exploration draws on the literature of retired academics and identity theory to illustrate the potential generative spaces within an undefined and incoherent identity.

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