What’s Love Got to Do with it? Precarious Academic Labour Forces and the Role of Passion in Italian Universities
| Autor: | Sandro Busso, Paola Rivetti |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />French |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques, Vol 45, Iss 2, Pp 15-37 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1782-1592 2033-7485 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/rsa.1243 |
| Popis: | This article examines the role of passion among precarious labour force in the Italian academia. By relying on C. Wright Mill’s distinction between “passion as a reason” of action and “passion as a motive” to represent and discuss one’s employment condition, the article concludes that the symbolic strength of passion is correlated to its applicability both as a tool to govern recruitment in neo-liberal academia and as a strategy to fit recruitment criteria and “become employable”. The article is based on more than four-year long documentation and participant observation in political initiatives and campaigns organised by precarious, non-tenured research staff in Italian universities. |
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