 | Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher educationand research work that are underway today havenot only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually beproducing unemployment both for those within academia and forgraduate job-seekers in other sectors. Recent and current re-organisations of higher education and researchwork, and re-orientations of academic life (as students, researchers, teachers)generally, which are taking place around the world, achieve exactly theopposite of what they claim: though ostensibly undertaken to facilitateemployment, these moves actually produce unemployment both for those withinacademia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors. Suman Gupta isChair in Literature and Cultural History at The Open University, UK. His published books include Re-ReadingHarry Potter (2003, 2009), SocialConstructionist Identity Politics and Literary Studies (2007), Imagining Iraq (2011), Consumable Textsin Contemporary India (2015) and Philologyand Global English Studies (2015). JernejHabjan is Research Fellow at the literary institute of the Research Centre ofthe Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia. He has co-edited, with JessicaWhyte, (Mis)readings of Marx in ContinentalPhilosophy (2014). Hrvoje Tutek is Lecturer in American Literature at theUniversity of Zagreb, Croatia. He is currently finishing his dissertation in the DFG research group 'Globalization and Literature' at the Universityof Munich. He was an active participant in the 2009Croatian student protests against state budget cuts aimed at publicuniversities. |
