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Richard Levins and Dialectical Thinking 理查德·莱文斯和辩证思维
Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2018-01-06 DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186403
V. Wallis
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Student Evaluations, Neoliberal Managerialism, and Networks of Mistrust 学生评价、新自由主义管理主义和不信任网络
Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2018-01-06 DOI: 10.14288/CLOGIC.V22I0.190860
Ian Butcher
Though student evaluations and their flaws have been much commented on lately—in addition to recent coverage in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, and NPR’s education blog, major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post have also devoted coverage to this issue—there has been little attention paid to student evaluations’ place and function in the larger ideological framework of contemporary higher education. That is, the flaws of student evaluations are not isolated from the larger issues threatening higher education today, but rather are symptoms of the way neoliberal policies have reshaped the university and the roles of teachers and students within it over the past three decades.
尽管最近对学生评价及其缺陷进行了大量评论——除了《高等教育纪事报》、《Slate》和美国国家公共电台的教育博客最近的报道之外,《纽约时报》和《华盛顿邮报》等主要报纸也对这个问题进行了报道——但很少有人关注学生评价在当代高等教育更大的意识形态框架中的地位和作用。也就是说,学生评估的缺陷并不是孤立于当今威胁高等教育的更大问题之外的,而是新自由主义政策在过去三十年中重塑大学以及教师和学生角色的方式的症状。
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John Trudell and the Spirit of Life 约翰·特鲁德尔和生命的精神
Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2018-01-06 DOI: 10.14288/CLOGIC.V22I0.190875
Christopher Craig
The Santee Sioux activist, political philosopher, and poet/musician John Trudell died of cancer on December 8th, 2015. I was sitting in my office when I read the news. His death had been reported erroneously four days before, so it didn’t come as a complete surprise. Nevertheless, I experienced the same kind of sadness I felt when John Lennon died, as though, somehow, I had lost someone close to me even though we had never met. Trudell’s work had inspired me. He fought fearlessly for tribal rights. He also reached across class, gender, and racial lines in order to draw public attention to the oppressive treatment of indigenous people as a symptom of a larger ruling class imperative to colonize the western world. In numerous poems, speeches, and songs, he argues that western society has lost touch with what he calls the “spirit of life.” Industrial capitalism has led to the fall of western society’s natural relationship to the earth. The value of human life no longer resides in the reality that we are made of the earth. Instead it depends on advancing the interests of the very historical forces that had perpetrated our “spiritual genocide.” This learned disrespect for the earth cuts us off from the ancestral knowledge of what it means to be a human being. Trudell claims that we must rediscover this knowledge if we intend to take back the land from the ruling class. Only through reestablishing our place in the natural order of the world can we liberate ourselves from the diseased thinking and behaviors that have resulted in class division, environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and global war. Trudell points to industrial capitalism as the stimulus for the United States’ policies that have informed U.S.-Indian relations. It was the precise articulation of this observation that encouraged me to include his poetry, music, speeches, and a documentary about his life in an upper-level literature and film course I was designing on the American West. His work would help me to establish westward expansion as an economic development intended to exploit environmental resources and create new consumer and labor markets, whatever the cost to tribal communities and their lands. His analysis
桑提苏族活动家、政治哲学家、诗人兼音乐家约翰·特鲁德尔于2015年12月8日因癌症去世。当我看到这则新闻时,我正坐在办公室里。他的死讯在四天前就被错误地报道了,所以这并不完全是一个意外。然而,我经历了约翰·列侬去世时的那种悲伤,就好像,不知何故,我失去了一个亲近的人,尽管我们从未见过面。特鲁德尔的作品激励了我。他无畏地为部落权利而战。他还跨越了阶级、性别和种族界限,以引起公众的注意,将土著人民的压迫待遇作为更大的统治阶级迫切需要殖民西方世界的症状。在大量的诗歌、演讲和歌曲中,他认为西方社会已经失去了他所谓的“生命精神”。工业资本主义导致了西方社会与地球自然关系的崩溃。人类生命的价值不再存在于我们是由地球构成的这一现实中。相反,它取决于推进那些犯下“精神种族灭绝”罪行的历史势力的利益。这种习得的对地球的不尊重,切断了我们对作为人类意味着什么的祖先知识的了解。特鲁德尔声称,如果我们想从统治阶级手中夺回土地,我们必须重新发现这些知识。只有通过重建我们在世界自然秩序中的位置,我们才能从导致阶级分裂、环境破坏、种族主义、性别歧视和全球战争的病态思想和行为中解放出来。特鲁德尔指出,工业资本主义刺激了美国的政策,影响了美印关系。正是这种观察的准确表达,鼓励我在我设计的一门关于美国西部的高级文学和电影课程中加入他的诗歌、音乐、演讲和一部关于他生活的纪录片。他的工作将帮助我将西部扩张确立为一种经济发展,旨在开发环境资源,创造新的消费者和劳动力市场,而不管部落社区和他们的土地付出什么代价。他的分析
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Institutional Climate and Faculty Governance in Higher Education: A Shift from Capitalist to Shared Governance Models 高等教育的制度氛围与教师治理:从资本主义到共享治理模式的转变
Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2017-11-19 DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I29.186227
Matthew M. McDaniel
Campus and institutional climate is a key measure of success for academic institutions. Higher education leaders serve in their positions, on average, less than 6 years, with a steady decline in this tenure over the past 20 years. This study aims to focus on the relationships and institutional climate between university faculty and university administrators as they apply to faculty governance. This study uses a qualitative case study method, in which 6 faculty members within the College of Engineering at a Northwestern United States university (referred to by the pseudonym State University) are interviewed to gain perspectives on their perceptions of these relationships. The guiding question for this case study is: What are the things that build trust between faculty and administrators that create a healthy collegial academic environment? The goal of this study is to gain a better understanding of specific themes that are shown to promote a healthy and positive institutional climate at the faculty and administrative levels which contribute to a healthy shared faculty governance structure as an alternative to the current capitalist governance model. An exploration of faculty governance is a key theme to this research.
校园和机构氛围是衡量学术机构成功与否的关键指标。高等教育领导人的平均任期不到6年,在过去20年里,这个任期在稳步下降。本研究的目的是关注大学教师和大学管理者之间的关系和制度氛围,因为它们适用于学院治理。本研究采用定性案例研究方法,对美国西北一所大学(化名州立大学)工程学院的6名教员进行了访谈,以获得他们对这些关系的看法。本案例研究的指导性问题是:哪些事情可以在教师和管理者之间建立信任,从而创造一个健康的大学学术环境?本研究的目标是更好地理解具体的主题,这些主题被证明可以促进教师和行政层面的健康和积极的制度氛围,这有助于建立健康的共享教师治理结构,作为当前资本主义治理模式的替代方案。对教师治理的探索是本研究的一个关键主题。
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引用次数: 2
Labour in the Academic Borderlands: Unveiling the Tyranny of Neoliberal Policies 学术边缘地带的劳工:揭露新自由主义政策的暴政
Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2016-09-16 DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I28.186215
A. Darder, T. Griffiths
The article examines the current conditions of labour within the neoliberal university, particularly with respect to the labour of borderland academics. Borderland is used in this instance to refer to the political space embodied by radical intellectuals across disciplines engaged in examining questions of class, race, gender and other social formations of inequality, through materialist perspectives. This work sets out an appeal for an emancipatory pedagogy and praxis by politically engaged academics, based on well-established foundations of revolutionary pedagogy, including Paulo Freire’s notion of social consciousness as an imperative of educational practice in higher education. Toward this end, a concrete use value of academic labour is discussed, promoting such commitments in our practice with students and colleagues to support possibilities for the emancipatory reshaping of academic work, institutions, and society.
本文考察了新自由主义大学内的劳动现状,特别是关于边境学者的劳动。在这种情况下,边界地带指的是激进知识分子所体现的政治空间,这些知识分子通过唯物主义的观点,跨学科地研究阶级、种族、性别和其他社会形式的不平等问题。这项工作提出了一种解放的教育学和实践的呼吁,由政治参与的学者,基于革命教育学的完善基础,包括保罗·弗莱雷的社会意识概念,作为高等教育教育实践的必要条件。为此,我们讨论了学术劳动的具体使用价值,在我们与学生和同事的实践中促进这种承诺,以支持学术工作、机构和社会的解放性重塑的可能性。
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引用次数: 2
Re-engineering Higher Education: The Subsumption of Academic Labour and the Exploitation of Anxiety 高等教育再造:学术劳动的包容与焦虑的利用
Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2016-09-16 DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I28.186211
R. Hall, K. Bowles
This article analyses the political economy of higher education, in terms of Marx and Engels’ conception of subsumption. It addresses the twin processes of formal and real subsumption, in terms of the re-engineering of the governance of higher education and the re-production of academic labour in the name of value. It argues that through the imposition of architectures of subsumption, academic labour becomes a source of both overwork and anxiety. The article employs Marx and Engels’ categorizations of formal and real subsumption, in order to work towards a fuller understanding of abstract academic labour, alongside its psychological impacts. The article closes by examining whether narratives of solidarity, in particular from marginalised voices, might help academics and students to analyse and then move beyond their alienated labour.
本文从马克思恩格斯的包容观出发,分析了高等教育的政治经济学。就高等教育治理的重新设计和以价值名义的学术劳动的再生产而言,它解决了正式和实际包容的双重过程。它认为,通过包容架构的强加,学术劳动成为过度劳累和焦虑的来源。本文采用了马克思和恩格斯对形式包容和真实包容的分类,以便更全面地理解抽象的学术劳动,以及它的心理影响。文章最后考察了团结的叙事,特别是来自边缘化声音的叙事,是否可以帮助学者和学生分析并超越他们的异化劳动。
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引用次数: 55
MARXISM AND OPEN ACCESS IN THE HUMANITIES: TURNING ACADEMIC LABOR AGAINST ITSELF 马克思主义与人文学科的开放:使学术劳动与自身对立
Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2016-09-16 DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I28.186213
David Golumbia
Open Access (OA) is the movement to make academic research available without charge, typically via digital networks. Like many cyberlibertarian causes OA is roundly celebrated by advocates from across the political spectrum. Yet like many of those causes, OA’s lack of clear grounding in an identifiable political framework means that it may well not only fail to serve the political goals of some of its supporters, and may in fact work against them. In particular, OA is difficult to reconcile with Marxist accounts of labor, and on its face appears not to advance but to actively mitigate against achievement of Marxist goals for the emancipation of labor. In part this stems from a widespread misunderstanding of Marx’s own attitude toward intellectual work, which to Marx was not categorically different from other forms of labor, though was in danger of becoming so precisely through the denial of the value of the end products of intellectual work. This dynamic is particularly visible in the humanities, where OA advocacy routinely includes disparagement of academic labor, and of the value produced by that labor.
开放获取(OA)是指通过数字网络免费提供学术研究成果的运动。像许多网络自由主义者的事业一样,OA受到了来自各个政治派别的倡导者的热烈欢迎。然而,就像许多这些原因一样,开放获取在一个可识别的政治框架中缺乏明确的基础,这意味着它不仅不能为一些支持者的政治目标服务,而且实际上可能适得其反。特别是,开放就业很难与马克思主义对劳动的描述协调一致,从表面上看,它似乎没有推进,而是积极地阻碍了马克思主义劳动解放目标的实现。在某种程度上,这源于对马克思自己对智力劳动的态度的广泛误解,对马克思来说,智力劳动与其他形式的劳动并没有绝对的不同,尽管有可能通过否认智力劳动的最终产品的价值而变得如此。这种动态在人文学科中尤其明显,在人文学科中,OA的倡导通常包括贬低学术劳动以及这种劳动所产生的价值。
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引用次数: 15
Taxi Professors: Academic Labour in Chile, a Critical-Practical Response to the Politics of Worker Identity 出租车教授:智利的学术劳动,对工人身份政治的批判-实践回应
Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2016-09-16 DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I28.186212
Elisabeth Simbürger, M. Neary
This paper discusses the organisation of academic labour as an expression of contemporary capitalism in Chile. The focus of our analysis is on so called ‘taxi professors’, hourly paid academics that carry out the majority of teaching at Chilean universities. Drawing on 23 qualitative interviews, we discuss the daily work routines of taxi professors, focussing on travel to work, gender, the labour process, academic freedom, self-management and the organisation of collective struggle among hourly paid workers. In contrast to the mainstream literature on academic identity, the discourses of  hourly paid academics are not shaped merely by their sense of ‘precarity’, their belonging to a disciplinary subject or professional expertise, but fundamentally by the alienating and exploitative conditions of work to which they are exposed. This understanding of hourly paid academic labour in terms of an alienated form of capitalist work will be linked to academic writing that suggests a critical-practical activity that seeks to counteract the sense of ‘helplessness’ reflected in the discourses about academic identity. The practical aspect of this activity is presented as the possibilities of platform co-operativism, expressed in this context as co-operative forms of higher education, grounded in a critical reading of Karl Marx’s labour theory of value where value rather than labour is the focus of critical analysis.
本文讨论学术劳动的组织作为当代资本主义在智利的表现。我们分析的重点是所谓的“出租车教授”,即在智利大学进行大部分教学的按小时计酬的学者。通过23个定性访谈,我们讨论了出租车教授的日常工作,重点关注上班的旅行、性别、劳动过程、学术自由、自我管理和组织小时工的集体斗争。与关于学术身份的主流文献相反,按小时收费的学者的话语不仅仅是由他们的“不稳定感”、他们属于一个学科学科或专业知识所塑造的,而是从根本上由他们所面临的异化和剥削的工作条件所塑造的。从异化形式的资本主义工作来看,这种对按小时收费的学术劳动的理解将与学术写作联系起来,学术写作提出了一种批判性实践活动,旨在抵消关于学术身份的话语中反映的“无助感”。这一活动的实践方面表现为平台合作主义的可能性,在这种背景下表现为高等教育的合作形式,其基础是对卡尔·马克思的劳动价值论的批判性阅读,其中价值而不是劳动是批判性分析的重点。
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引用次数: 9
Marx, Engels and the critique of academic labor 马克思、恩格斯与学术劳动批判
Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2016-08-01 DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I28.186209
Karen Gregory, J. Winn
With the production of this special issue of Workplace , we hope to contribute to a negative critique of academic labor that not only helps make such “productive” social relations more transparent, but situates academic labor as an object of critique within the discourse of recent developments in Marxist praxis. To undertake this, we sought papers that acknowledge the foundational work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for labor theory and engaged closely and critically with the critique of political economy. Marx regarded his discovery of the “dual character” of labor in capitalism (i.e. concrete and abstract) as one of his most important achievements and “the pivot on which a clear comprehension of political economy turns.” (Marx, 1996, 51) With this in mind, we sought contributions that employ Marx’s and Engels’ critical categories of labor, value, the commodity, capital, etc. in reflexive ways which illuminate the role and character of academic labor today and how its existing form might be, according to Marx, abolished, transcended and overcome ( aufheben ).
随着《工作场所》特刊的出版,我们希望对学术劳动的负面批评有所贡献,这不仅有助于使这种“生产性”社会关系更加透明,而且将学术劳动置于马克思主义实践最新发展的话语中作为批评对象。为此,我们寻找承认卡尔·马克思和弗里德里希·恩格斯在劳动理论方面的基础性工作,并与政治经济学批判密切和批判性地联系在一起的论文。马克思认为他对资本主义劳动的“两重性”(即具体的和抽象的)的发现是他最重要的成就之一,也是“清晰理解政治经济学的支点”。(马克思,1996,51)考虑到这一点,我们寻求运用马克思和恩格斯的劳动、价值、商品、资本等批判范畴的贡献,以反思性的方式阐明了今天学术劳动的角色和特征,以及根据马克思的说法,它的现有形式如何被废除、超越和克服(aufheben)。
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引用次数: 6
Out of Asia: Topologies of Racism in Canada 走出亚洲:加拿大种族主义的拓扑结构
Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I31.186179
J. Chan
This case study recounts my harrowing experience through a great Canadian equity swindle—involving two internal university equity investigations, BC Human Rights Tribunal, and the BC Supreme Court—to bring to account a deeply flawed and allegedly discriminatory academic hiring process. I situate my human rights complaint in the larger socio-political context of Canada becoming “too Asian.” Using a methodology of a critical personal narrative in the form of a self-interview, I discuss how diverse actors from the union to lawyers, the court system, the media, the public, and fellow academics stubbornly refuse to see the nexus between race and discrimination. These embarrassing conversations form the contours of topologies of race in Canada, stretching and bending our academic, legal, media, and social landscapes without tearing white hegemony apart. I highlight the common experiences of fellow human rights complainants who contacted me during this period and the implications of our ordeals on the Canadian social body.
这个案例研究讲述了我在加拿大一次重大股权骗局中的悲惨经历——涉及两次内部大学股权调查,不列颠哥伦比亚省人权法庭和不列颠哥伦比亚省最高法院——以解决一个严重缺陷和涉嫌歧视的学术招聘过程。我把我的人权投诉放在加拿大变得“过于亚洲化”的更大社会政治背景下。我以自我采访的形式,运用批判性个人叙述的方法,讨论了从工会到律师、法院系统、媒体、公众和同行学者等不同的行动者是如何顽固地拒绝看到种族与歧视之间的联系的。这些令人尴尬的对话构成了加拿大种族拓扑的轮廓,在没有撕裂白人霸权的情况下,扩展和扭曲了我们的学术、法律、媒体和社会景观。我强调在此期间与我联系的其他人权申诉者的共同经历,以及我们的苦难对加拿大社会机构的影响。
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