The Fortune of Precarity
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https://doi.org/10.3989/rdtp.2018.01.001.05Keywords:
Precarity, Academy, Motherhood, Teaching, ResearchAbstract
Not long ago, one of the main predictors of a successful career in Spanish academia was receiving a predoctoral scholarship, which provided an opportunity for exclusive devotion to gaining a PhD. In this article, I will describe my personal and professional experiences regarding my own PhD scholarship and the subsequent posts I held after obtaining my PhD from a Spanish university in the midst of the country’s economic crisis. Since acquiring my qualification, I have experienced various forms of precarity in my work, which the academic environment naturalises as steps preceding professional stability. This situation coincided with the demands of a committed and responsible motherhood, complicating my job situation even further. Drawing on these experiences, I will discuss how I consider precarity in academia to be closely linked to what I have conceptualized as acade(mono)rmativities.
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Ferrándiz, Francisco. 2007. «Juventud en el respirador: supervivencia y muerte en los barrios venezolanos», en Juan Antonio Flores Martos y Luisa Abad González (coords.), Etnografías de la muerte y las culturas en América Latina: 235-252. Ciudad Real: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.
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