Daniel Nehring & Kristiina Brunila 
Affective Capitalism in Academia 
Revealing Public Secrets

Drawing on affect theory and research on academic capitalism, this book examines the contemporary crisis of universities. With 11 international and comparative case studies, it offers a unique exploration of the contemporary role of affect in academic labour and the organisation of scholarship and explores diverse features of contemporary academic life, from the coloniality of academic capitalism to performance management and the experience of being performance-managed.

Tabella dei contenuti

1. 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

Circa l’autore

Kristiina Brunila is Director of the AGORA for the study of social justice and equality in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki.