Imponiendo la precariedad: maquinaciones burocráticas, complicidad y jerarquías de la Academia

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https://doi.org/10.3989/rdtp.2018.01.001.04

Palabras clave:

Precariedad, Adjuncts, Estados Unidos, Jerarquías académicas, Complicidad, Rechazo

Resumen


"Adjuncts" es el término usado en los Estados Unidos para referirse a los profesores con contratos temporales, de baja remuneración y sin protección social. Hoy constituyen la mayoría de la plantilla del profesorado en universidades y colleges estadounidenses. Partiendo de mis tres años de experiencia como adjunta, este artículo es un relato de la precariedad en la academia norteamericana. Aunque se suele asumir que la precariedad afecta igual a todos los adjuncts, la raza, el género, y la clase dan forma a distribuciones diferenciadas de la precariedad y construyen ciertos cuerpos como precarios incluso aunque no sean adjuncts. Y es que la precariedad en la academia incluye una gama de experiencias a menudo inconmensurables. Las discusiones sobre la precariedad también suelen pasan por alto la complicidad de los profesores permanentes y de los administradores, que imponen la precariedad y reproducen jerarquías de la academia al mantener a los adjuncts lejos de los recursos de la Universidad y al pedirles que trabajen sin compensación. ¿Cómo practicar un rechazo colectivo de la reproducción de las jerarquías académicas sin que se entienda como muestra de que no nos preocupamos por nuestro trabajo? ¿Cómo ese rechazo puede servir para demandar mejores condiciones de trabajo para todos?

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2018-06-30

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Touhouliotis, V. (2018). Imponiendo la precariedad: maquinaciones burocráticas, complicidad y jerarquías de la Academia. Disparidades. Revista De Antropología, 73(1), 39–46. https://doi.org/10.3989/rdtp.2018.01.001.04

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Temas emergentes - Precariedades en la Academia. Marta Pérez y Ainhoa Montoya (coord.)