No Time to Reflect! ‘Precari’ in the University with a Few Tips for Survival

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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/1013929X.2020.1743026

M. Chapman

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Abstract

The article focuses on the ‘precari’ in universities, both young academics and postgraduate students: that is, those who experience the insecurity of casualisation and the demands of management to drive their doctoral studies to completion and/or meet the annual ‘performance’ requirement of publication outputs. Precarity is invoked, accordingly, in its fundamental definition of insecure employment and income together with the accompanying psychological distress. First, I provide a brief context of current considerations of precarity, in which the trials of millennials tend to be side-lined in higher-order ‘precarity debates’, whether economic or philosophical. My return to the vulnerable younger members of the university does not end with an explication of the ‘problem’, as do many considerations of precarity. Rather, I offer a few tips for surviving the pressures of managerial time- and cost-efficiency research where the quantity of output is expected to supersede the time necessary to reflect.

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没有时间反思!大学“无业游民”的生存秘诀

这篇文章关注的是大学里的“不稳定者”，包括年轻的学者和研究生:也就是说，那些经历了临时工和管理要求的不安全感，以推动他们的博士研究完成和/或满足年度出版产出的“表现”要求。因此，不稳定在其关于无保障的就业和收入以及随之而来的心理困扰的基本定义中被援引。首先，我简要介绍了当前对不稳定性的考虑，在这种情况下，千禧一代的尝试往往在更高层次的“不稳定性辩论”中被边缘化，无论是经济的还是哲学的。我回到大学中脆弱的年轻成员，并没有像许多不稳定的考虑那样，以对“问题”的解释结束。相反，我提供了一些建议，帮助你在管理时间和成本效率研究的压力下生存下来，在这些研究中，预期产出的数量将取代反思所需的时间。

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期刊介绍： Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa is published bi-annually by Routledge. Current Writing focuses on recent writing and re-publication of texts on southern African and (from a ''southern'' perspective) commonwealth and/or postcolonial literature and literary-culture. Works of the past and near-past must be assessed and evaluated through the lens of current reception. Submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed by at least two referees of international stature in the field. The journal is accredited with the South African Department of Higher Education and Training.