Index

Inquiring into Academic Timescapes

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(2021), "Index", Vostal, F. (Ed.) Inquiring into Academic Timescapes, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 281-289. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-911-420211023

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INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.

Academia
, 1, 7, 11, 13, 17, 59

accelerated
, 89–92

analyzing rhythms
, 26–27

Academic multitasking

academic work and use of time through gender perspective
, 148–150

changes in academic work
, 138–143

diversification of academic work and use of time
, 145–148

methodology
, 144–145

Portuguese context
, 143–144

time and
, 137–138

Academic Profession in the Knowledge Society project (APIKS project)
, 144–145

Academic timescales

disciplining
, 217–218

optimizing
, 220–225

organizing
, 218–220

Academic work
, 87, 124, 145–150

changes in
, 138–143

diversification of
, 145–148

and use of time through gender perspective
, 148–150

Academic writing
, 233–234

complexity and rhythms of
, 243–245

Academic(s)
, 15, 123, 176

academic-political agendas
, 68–71

calendar
, 216, 218, 221

career
, 33, 89

Folklore
, 11

lives
, 265–277

processes
, 6–7

rhythmics
, 63–66

study of temporality
, 256

temporalities
, 64

time
, 157, 160, 216–217

timescales
, 224

timescape
, 8, 124

Accelerated academia
, 89–92

Accelerated academy conferences
, 185

Accelerated Academy Project (AA Project), 1fn

Accelerated learning
, 32

Acceleration(s)
, 5, 11–12, 22–23, 25, 34, 39–40, 50, 54, 65, 157, 160, 175–176, 179, 182, 224, 265

of academia
, 59

anticipatory
, 47, 53

feelings of
, 32, 34

of HE
, 180

institutional
, 40, 47

of learning activities
, 34

linear
, 53

pathological
, 93

social
, 40, 47, 87–90, 92, 94–95, 97–99, 179

technological
, 87

of work
, 156

Accountability measures
, 271

Adam, B.
, 66, 151, 162, 267, 279

Adorno, T. W.
, 16, 165, 167, 169, 174, 177

Alice in Academia
, 73

thud
, 74–76

tomorrow today
, 76–84

Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)
, 14

Anticipatory presence
, 47, 52

Appadurai, A.
, 60, 269

Appropriation
, 53–54

of peripheral stairs
, 52

Arendt, H.
, 41

Arrhythmia
, 40

Audit culture
, 123

Augé, M.
, 51

Autonomy in time
, 130–131

Bacevic, J.
, 5, 9–10, 170, 172

Bachelard, G.
, 14, 21, 24, 26–28, 30–31, 34, 41, 45–46, 60

patterns of duality
, 27–28

Ball, S.
, 139, 148–149

Barnett, R.
, 39–41, 54, 139, 162

Bastian, M., 76n2

Benchmarking productivity
, 252–256

Bergson, H.
, 45, 238

Bibliometric studies
, 249–250

Biographical and participatory methods, advances in
, 187–188

Biographical narratives
, 189–190

Body Multiple (Mol)
, 270

Body time
, 90

Bologna reforms
, 223

Boltanski, L.
, 10, 139, 262, 267

Bourdieu, P.
, 60, 214

Burrows, R.
, 87, 126, 171

Busyness as badge of honor
, 171

Butler, J.
, 108

Canadian funding bodies
, 258

Cannizzo, F.
, 6, 14, 53, 100

Capitalism
, 1, 9, 68

transformation
, 10

Capitalist money time
, 2

“Career stage” of applicants
, 251

Career Times
, 15

Career(s)
, 17, 29, 140, 144–145

academic
, 25, 31, 89, 100, 143, 265

hierarchization
, 104

implications
, 97

individualization
, 104

leaves
, 261

paths
, 105, 274

progression
, 90

research
, 143

rhythm
, 15, 275

stages
, 100, 145

time
, 89–90, 92, 94, 96–97, 99, 156

Carrigan, M., 1fn
, 3, 165, 172–173, 175

Carroll, L.
, 14

Castoriadis, C.
, 14, 23–24

Challenging gender (in) equality in science and research program (CHANGE program)
, 149

Changes in the Academic Profession project (CAP project)
, 144–145

Chrono

chrono-topology
, 4

imagination
, 185–187

politics
, 47, 248–249, 251, 262, 266

reflexivity
, 175, 183–185

solidarity, 1fn
, 3, 175, 183–187

Citation-based search algorithms
, 127

CiteScore
, 126

Citizen bibliometrics
, 250

Clear-cut priority list
, 96–97

Clock time
, 9–11, 15, 22, 49, 107, 137–138, 236

out of
, 157

in academia
, 267

counts
, 213

lack of
, 243

Collateral

damage
, 266

futures
, 266

realities
, 266

Collective rhythm of studied group
, 60

Communicative life rhythms
, 63

Containing Anxiety in Institutions (Lythe)
, 177

Continuous entrepreneurship of self
, 108

Council for the Defence of the British University
, 180

Credit Accumulation Transfer policy (CAT policy)
, 223

Cultural logic of late capitalist academia
, 179–183

Cultural rhythmics, 59 (See also Rhythmics)

composition of social dynamics
, 62

design of academic-political agendas
, 68–71

development as temporality
, 66–68

rhythmics of social life
, 59–64

Cumulative

development
, 67

history
, 67

logic
, 49

Curricula vitae (CVs)
, 247

benchmarking productivity
, 252–256

construction of temporal norms
, 248–251

material and methods
, 251–252

scientific age
, 257–260

trajectorial interpretation
, 248

Cyclical repetition
, 236

Cyclical rhythms
, 236–237

Czech education system
, 164

Daily life rhythms
, 61

Dangerous Case of Donald Trump (Lifton)
, 185

“Dark ontology” of university
, 41

Deceleration
, 22–23, 25, 32, 34

of academy
, 108

feelings of
, 108

Deleuze, G.
, 42

Dépassement
, 42

Depression
, 155

Derrida, J.
, 157, 161, 163

Descriptive moment
, 43

Development as temporality
, 66–68

Diagnostic narratives
, 270

Disciplinary

configurations
, 249

context
, 252, 261

contextualization
, 252, 261

cultures
, 249

differences
, 14

fields
, 100

knowledge
, 218–219, 223

particularities
, 5

Diversification of academic work
, 145–148

Doctoral

emerging rhythms enabling writing
, 241–242

emotional/affective perspectives
, 242–243

experiences over time
, 240–241

study in United Kingdom
, 231

writing
, 233–235

Doctorate in Education (EdD)
, 231

Douglas, M.
, 277

Dramaturgy of hyperactivity
, 171

Duration
, 4, 29, 75, 212, 236, 250, 274

degree
, 219–220

differentials
, 25

of life course
, 34

long-study
, 220

of PhD
, 105

of studies
, 222, 243

Dwelling
, 53–54

Eagleton, T.
, 166, 171–172

Ecologies of knowledge
, 269

Economic life rhythms
, 63

Eigenfactor
, 126

Emotional

emotional/affective perspectives
, 242–243

fabric of shelters
, 53

English higher education system
, 221

Enjoyment
, 53–54

Epistemic capitalism
, 1

Ethno-mimesis
, 16, 187–188

European Research Council (ERC)
, 195–196, 198

grants
, 16

history
, 200

starting and consolidator grants
, 199

Evaluation

complacency, 125n1

inertia, 125n2

society
, 123

Ever availability
, 111

Experiential academic time
, 146

Fast academics
, 10

Feminine time
, 108

Felt, U., 17, 25, 103, 198, 200, 205n3
, 249–251, 264, 267–271, 273, 278

Finnish higher education system
, 89

Fisher, M.
, 157, 161–163

Fochler, M.
, 2, 198–200, 206, 249, 251, 267

Foucault, M.
, 65, 138

Fraser, J. T.
, 22, 61

Fuller, S.
, 138

‘Future belongs to ghosts’, the
, 155–156

G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)
, 254

Gender
, 13, 89, 104–105, 107–108, 114, 118

discrimination and challenges
, 186

disparities HEI
, 104

Gender Equality Plans
, 104, 119

gender-based temporalities
, 189

gender-time studies
, 104

gendered academic hierarchies and inequalities
, 5

gendered PhD time
, 108, 114

inequalities
, 108, 138

perspective
, 103–104, 108–109

roles and stereotypes
, 107

social time
, 118

time gaps
, 106

Geographies of responsibility
, 266

German universities
, 217

GoPro camera
, 40

Guattari, F.
, 42

h-index
, 123–126, 128, 131

Harper’s quarter system
, 223–224

Hassan, R.
, 22

High-frequency trading (HFT)
, 12

Higher education
, 21, 28, 32, 129, 143, 175, 178, 182, 211–213, 220, 225, 232

features
, 145

importance
, 179–180

learning in
, 221

policy makers
, 106

researchers
, 138

rhythms in
, 14, 26

sociology of
, 16

studies
, 5

timescale for
, 213

in United Kingdom
, 180

Higher Education Institutions (HEI)
, 103–104, 138–139, 146, 211–212, 221

Historical time
, 181

Human capital theory
, 220

Humboldtian ideal of academic freedom
, 156

Ideal speech situation
, 131

Imaginaries
, 60–61, 69

Impact per time ratio
, 203

In the Shadow of the Lion (exhibition)
, 170, 173

Ineradicability of rhythm
, 41

Ingold, T.
, 60, 269

Innerarity
, 274

Instants
, 44–47

Institutional time, 211 (See also Trading time)

disciplining academic timescales
, 217–218

European Roots
, 215–216

habitualizing academic time
, 216–217

optimizing academic timescales
, 220–225

organizing academic timescales
, 218–220

quarter and idea of strategic timescales in US higher education
, 213–214

Institutional writing cultures
, 233

Jasanoff, S.
, 270

Jiří Skála, interview with
, 163–173

Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
, 124–126, 131

Knowledge economy/society
, 137

KPIs
, 123

L’Intuition de l’Instant
, 45

Lamont, M.
, 129, 198–199, 202, 257

La Somme et le Reste
, 44

Latour, B.
, 60, 214, 268

Law, J.
, 268, 271

Leccardi, C.
, 88, 104

Lefebvre, H.
, 14, 21, 24, 26–31, 34, 40-45, 47, 50, 52, 60, 236, 238

contributions
, 30

critique of everyday life
, 44

dépassement
, 42

dialectical materialism
, 42

interpretation
, 43

praxis
, 43

rhythmanalytical theory
, 28–29, 40

theorization of rhythm
, 44

theory of moments
, 21, 27–31, 44–45

triad
, 42

Lévi-Strauss, C.
, 67

Life sciences (LS)
, 199

Linear rhythms
, 236–237

Lotka’s Law
, 125

Lupton, D.
, 147

Malignant normality
, 177, 179, 184

Marginson, S.
, 227

Marx, K.
, xvii–xviii, 9, 11, 13, 43, 162, 192

Marxian analysis
, 22

Massey, D.
, 214

Matthew Effect
, 127

Mead, G.H.
, 161–162

Melancholia
, 155

Men’s view of Phd gendered times
, 113–115

Merton, R. K.
, 200

Metrics
, 125–126

autonomy in time
, 130–131

discourse
, 129–130

making time
, 131–132

as time-saving devices
, 123, 126–128

Micrology
, 16

Minima Moralia
, 177

Modest temporal autonomy
, 131

Modularization
, 224

Mol, A.
, 272

Moments
, 29–30, 44–47

Moral resources
, 185

Morin, Edgar
, 14, 22–23, 25

Müller, R.
, 16, 47, 53, 108, 124, 158, 176, 198, 204, 206–207, 249, 251, 253, 263

Narrative infrastructures
, 267, 275

National Scientific Foundation (FCT)
, 144

Negotiation of temporal norms
, 251

Neoliberal

academic work environment
, 148

capitalism
, 10

governance of institutions
, 117

governmentality
, 148

ideologies
, 137, 160

managerialism and colonisation
, 179

marketisation
, 181

mode of time governance
, 103

narrative infrastructures
, 272

order
, 107

principles
, 118

time regimes
, 104, 108–109, 118

university
, 186

Neoliberalism
, 5, 170, 179–180, 182–183, 188

consequence
, 123

ideology
, 143

principles of
, 127

Neurasthenia
, 13

New Academic blog
, 180

New depthlessness
, 180

New Left Review
, 180

New public management (NPM)
, 139–140

Non-stop networking
, 97–99

Nowotny, H.
, 95, 249

Ontological politics
, 270

Organization
, 23

Parisean model of magnus/parvus ordinarius
, 215

Part-time doctoral researchers in education
, 231–232

analysis
, 239

complexity and rhythms of academic writing
, 243–245

data collection
, 238–239

doctoral writing
, 233–235

experiences of doctoral writing
, 240–243

methodology
, 237–239

sample
, 239

time and rhythm
, 235–237

Pattern(s)
, 30–31

of duality
, 31

Peer review
, 129, 196–197

Pels, D.
, 5, 14, 162

Perceived autonomy of individual scholars
, 131

Periodicity
, 31–32

PhD

industrialization
, 103

program
, 103

Physicals sciences and engineering (PE)
, 199

Poetic instant
, 46

Poetics of time
, 46

Polanyi, M.
, 251

Polemics
, 4

Policey-state
, 217

Political life rhythms
, 63

Politicised melancholia
, 155

Portuguese higher education system
, 143

“Post-clock” capitalism
, 8–11

Post-conceptual art
, 168–169

Private time
, 92

Procedural anticipation
, 47, 49

Process time
, 49

Productivistic temporality
, 68

Professional/managerial class
, 88

Psycho-social analysis
, 177–179

Public intellectuals
, 176–177

Public university
, 176–177

Quantitative judgment devices
, 260

Quarter-system
, 212

Quarterly or semestrial credit hour system
, 219

Rationalization
, 104

Recognition of subject experts
, 129

Regime(s)
, 276

of imperceptibility
, 270–273

time
, 104, 108–109, 118

Regressive–progressive method
, 43

Research
, 1–2, 16–17, 22, 26, 28, 31, 109, 123–124, 130, 139, 143, 145, 158, 198, 255, 259

academic times
, 265

activities
, 148

avenues
, 6

bids
, 94

biographical
, 187, 189

career
, 143

centers
, 117–118, 130

culture
, 130

duties
, 96

grant
, 98

innovative methods
, 26

on leisure time
, 169–170

market
, 140

outputs
, 140, 146

performance-based research systems
, 131

productivity
, 151

quality
, 124

quintessential activities
, 40

social research
, 44

study
, 129

transdisciplinary
, 21

Research excellence framework (REF)
, 180

Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education (Gearhart & Chambers)
, 4

Review time
, 203–206

RG score
, 126

Rhuthmos (platform)
, 24

Rhythm
, 4, 39, 235–237

analyzing rhythms of academia
, 26–27

anticipation, presence and appropriation in rhythmic institution
, 47–54

of body
, 237

moments, instants and shelters
, 44–47

and possible
, 41–44

relations between time and
, 25–26

rhythm-rhythmical concepts, 64n2

Rhythmanalysis
, 14, 26, 60, 235–236

analyzing rhythms of academia
, 26–27

Bachelard’s patterns of duality
, 27–28

Lefebvrian theory of moments
, 28–30

Rhythmic criteria (Sauvanet’s definition)
, 30

movement
, 32–34

pattern
, 30–31

periodicity
, 31–32

Rhythmicity
, 50

Rhythmics (See also Cultural rhythmics)

of social organization
, 61

of sustenance
, 61, 63

of worldview
, 61, 64

Rhythmological perspective

privileging
, 24–26

shifting from temporal to
, 24–25

Rhythms of Academic Life
, 15

Ricoeur, P.
, 28, 66

Right to the City
, 43

Rosa, H.
, 7, 13, 22–23, 40, 47, 87–88, 93, 169, 172, 179, 192

“Salami-slicing” of research findings
, 261

Scheduled time
, 89, 124, 236

Science Citation Index (SCI)
, 126–127

Scientific age
, 257–260

Scientist, The
, 272–273

Seasonal life rhythms
, 61, 63

Semester weekly hours
, 218

Semesterization
, 224

Semesterwochenstunden (SWS)
, 218

Sequencing academic time
, 215–216

Shapin, S.
, 75

Sharma, S.
, 4, 50

Shelters
, 44–47

Short non-concluding invitation
, 276–277

Sick building syndrome
, 272

Slaughter, S.
, 1, 107, 138, 140, 158, 162, 223

Slow-burning crisis
, 270–273

Social acceleration
, 87, 90, 92, 95–96, 98–99, 179

criticism
, 87–88

detrimental effects
, 97

diversity of experiences
, 89

dynamics and complexities
, 88

forms
, 87

Social time
, 159

Source Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP)
, 126

Spatialities
, 60

Specialization
, 104

Speed
, 5, 12, 23, 50, 53, 65, 74, 87–88, 131, 160, 271, 274

ambivalence
, 1

of HFT
, 12

sensation
, 13

speed-up of academic work
, 87

valorisation
, 88

Standard two-semester paradigm
, 214

“Steam, steel and coal” capitalism
, 8–9

Stratification
, 211

Taptiklis, T.
, 165, 168, 178, 180

Taylorization of evaluation
, 128

Teaching excellence framework (TEF)
, 180

Teaching time
, 48

Technological acceleration
, 87

Technologies
, 129

Tempo
, 32, 34, 50, 160, 176, 189, 205, 271

of academic life
, 128, 179, 186, 190

changes
, 32

of lives and working lives
, 183

unhasty
, 14

Temporal

care work
, 276

constraints
, 23

fabric of academic lives
, 265–269

imagination
, 23–24

infrastructures and regimes
, 273–276

logics
, 47

multiplicities and ontological politics at work
, 269–270

navigation in academic work
, 87

safety in research team
, 96–97

structures
, 46

subcultures
, 7

trap
, 92–94

Temporal norms

construction of
, 248–251

negotiation
, 251

Temporalities
, 27–28, 33, 41, 59–61, 64, 66–68, 70, 84, 89, 92, 103–105, 139, 148, 150, 236, 266–268, 273–275, 277

academic
, 30, 34, 64, 107, 175

antagonistic
, 21

biopsychological
, 105

contradictory
, 21, 40

disorganized
, 22

heterogeneous
, 22

of life history
, 28

lived
, 28

non-linear
, 53

organization
, 69

of peer review
, 195–196

plural
, 48

of research
, 15

systemic
, 274

women’s
, 108, 118

Tenure-track model
, 89

Terminus
, 215

Thompson, E. P.
, 10, 22–23, 106, 110, 138, 162

Thrift, N.
, 2, 9–10, 109, 215

Time
, 45, 66–67, 137–138, 211, 235–237

analysis
, 199–206

coherence
, 220

compression
, 64

dealing with complexity of
, 22–24

findings
, 110–116

generators
, 274

as judgment device
, 195, 199–203

making
, 131–132

material and methods
, 197–199

men’s view of Phd gendered times
, 113–115

method
, 109–110

norms and patterns
, 107

organizing complementary, contradictory, and antagonistic experiences
, 22–23

peer review
, 196–197

perceiving time structures
, 110–111

for PhD
, 105, 116

pressure
, 64

relations between rhythm and
, 25–26

as resource
, 106–107

shelters
, 46–47

squeeze
, 130

standardization
, 111

temporal imagination
, 23–24

theoretical framework
, 106–109

time problems and strategies
, 112–113

time–space shelters
, 47

use
, 145–148

women’s view of gendered time
, 115–116

Timeless time
, 53, 91, 124

searching for
, 94–96

Times Higher Education
, 272–273

Top-down management in universities
, 124

Tournament model
, 89

Trading time, 159–160 (See also Institutional time)

‘future belongs to ghosts’, the
, 155–156

future
, 159

“Transformational” connotation of movement
, 33

“Un-managing” academia
, 16

Universitas
, 216

Universities at War
, 40

University qua time–space shelter
, 47

Unmanaging the University
, 188–190

Unmanaging: Opening Up the Organisation to its Own Unspoken Knowledge (Taptiklis)
, 175, 188

Urgency
, 22–23, 39, 64–65, 188

rhythmic of
, 59, 70

western hegemonic imperative and imaginary of
, 14

US higher education, quarter and idea of strategic timescales in
, 213–214

Valuation studies
, 196

Virilio, P.
, 22

Vertical time
, 46

Vostal, F.
, 1–2, 4n4, 5–6, 9, 11, 14–15, 23, 34, 40, 53, 68, 87, 99, 103, 107, 131, 149–150, 158, 162, 167, 170, 173, 176–177, 183, 268

Wajcman, J.
, 3, 9, 40, 88, 129, 239

Weber, M.
, 5n6, 13, 162, 190–191

Wissenschaftlicher Assistant
, 259

Work
, 3, 5, 14, 26–27, 31, 48, 50, 59, 74, 81, 89–90, 92, 95, 105, 111, 125, 172, 178, 203, 276

academic
, 87–89, 92, 95, 98–100, 124, 138–143, 151, 196, 234

administrative
, 90

authentic work of art
, 169

commitments
, 232

corporatisation and acceleration
, 156

creative
, 95

domestic
, 115

fixed-term academics
, 90

hectic
, 91

knowledge
, 272

part-time
, 15

of philosophers
, 24

practices
, 90

relations
, 265

research
, 94

rhythms
, 63

service
, 10

social
, 88

student
, 148

teaching/supervision
, 204

temporal
, 270

time
, 91

work–life balance
, 91

Working time
, 9, 64, 92, 139, 141, 145, 150–151, 224

Writing process
, 232–233

Ylijoki, O.-H
, 6, 15, 49, 87–89, 92, 95, 99, 103–104, 107, 118, 146, 238–239, 243–244, 251, 253, 263, 270

Prelims
Introduction: On Times, Scapes and Chronosolidarity in Academia
Section I: Uneven Times
Chapter 1: Time and the Rhythms of Academia: A Rhythmanalytical Perspective
Chapter 2: Rhythm and the Possible: Moments, Anticipation and Dwelling in the Contemporary University
Chapter 3: Cultural Rhythmics Inside Academic Temporalities
Intermezzo I: Alice in Academia
Section II: Shortening Times
Chapter 4: Temporal Navigation in Academic Work: Experiences of Early Career Academics
Chapter 5: Academic Times, Shortcuts, and Styles – Exploring the Case of Time for a PhD from a Gender Perspective
Chapter 6: Metrics as Time-saving Devices
Section III: Career Times
Chapter 7: Time and Academic Multitasking – Unbounded Relation Between Professional and Personal Time
Chapter 8: Trading Time: A Hauntological Investigation
Chapter 9: Pace, Space and Well-being: Containing Anxiety in the University
Intermezzo II: Interview with Czech Artist Jirka Skála
Section IV: Making and Doing Times
Chapter 10: Time as a Judgment Device: How Time Matters When Reviewers Assess Applicants for ERC Starting and Consolidator Grants
Chapter 11: Time, the University, and Stratification: The Historical Making of Institutional Time as a Strategic Resource
Chapter 12: The Temporalities of the Writing Experience of Part-time Doctoral Researchers in Education
Chapter 13: On the Chronopolitics of Academic CVs in Peer Review
In Conclusion: The Temporal Fabric of Academic Lives: Of Weaving, Repairing, and Resisting
Index