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oapen-20.500.12657-424682023-05-17T07:48:30Z The Para-Academic Handbook Wardrop, Alex Withers, Deborah critical theory para-academia pedagogy precarity bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNP Adult education, continuous learning "There is a name for those under-and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic. Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the university. Our work, and our lives, reflect how the idea of a university as a place for knowledge production, discussion and learning, has become distorted by neo-liberal market forces. We create alternative, genuinely open access, learning-thinking-making-acting spaces on the internet, in publications, in exhibitions, discussion groups or other mediums that seem appropriate to the situation. We don’t sit back and worry about our career developments paths. We write for the love of it, we think because we have to, we do it because we care." 2020-10-06T08:28:55Z 2020-10-06T08:28:55Z 2014 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42468 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International PHA_Final.pdf https://www.hammeronpress.net/shop/precarity/the-para-academic-handbook/ Intellect 10.1386/9780956450753 10.1386/9780956450753 dba70200-fc42-4588-b068-f9ec198260f0 320 Bristol open access
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"There is a name for those under-and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic.
Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the university. Our work, and our lives, reflect how the idea of a university as a place for knowledge production, discussion and learning, has become distorted by neo-liberal market forces.
We create alternative, genuinely open access, learning-thinking-making-acting spaces on the internet, in publications, in exhibitions, discussion groups or other mediums that seem appropriate to the situation. We don’t sit back and worry about our career developments paths. We write for the love of it, we think because we have to, we do it because we care."
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