Continuing attachments in academic work in neoliberal times: on the academic mode of existence

Critical Studies in Education

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 226-244

  Decuypere, Mathias ^a   Simons, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Academics; ethnography; mode of existence; neoliberalism; sociomaterial approaches; university

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991030498     PISSN: 17508487     EISSN: 17508495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1240095     Document Type: Article

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