Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty

Ishmael I. Munene is professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University.

Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities offers significant insights into the ways academic labor has been reshaped through the market place, the reconfiguration of faculty power, and the reliance on contingent labor. This critical text provides a remarkable array of historical, economic, and political analyses centered on one institution while also developing parallels on how these issues play out in global contexts. The volume moves beyond an analysis of the ways in which contingent labor is used/abused to move to provide strategies for envisioning how pressure can be put on institutions to promote transformational change.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsForeword: Contingency at the CrossroadsGuy SenesePart One: University Transformation and Faculty Agency Chapter One: Introduction: The Casualization of Academic Labor & Faculty AgencyIshmael I. MuneneChapter Two: Prometheus Redefined: Theorizing & Contextualizing Contingent Faculty in UniversitiesIshmael I. MuneneChapter Three: The Metro Strategy: A workforce-appropriate, geography-based approach to organizing contingent facultyJoe Berry and Helena WorthenPart Two: Reclaiming the Faculty Narrative in the United States Chapter Four: Vulnerable, But Not Silent: Unpacking Discourses of Fear Surrounding NTT FacultyNora Timmerman Chapter Five: Notes from the Field: Mobilizing Non-Tenure Track Faculty at the University of ArizonaSean Rys, Joel Smith, and Kristin LittleChapter Six: Reclaiming Academic Labor in a Democratic State: Mediating the Neoliberal University Assault on the ProfessoriateTiffany KraftChapter Seven: The Theft of Adjunct Faculty Labor Time: Theorizing Exchange Value and Resistance from a Marxist PerspectivePhilippa Winkler Chapter Eight: Democracy, Shared Governance, and Academic Freedom for All Faculty Brian A. Stone and Sandra J. Stone Part Three: Global Cases of Faculty Narrative and Agency Chapter Nine: Non-Tenured Academics and the Dilemma of the Academic Profession in Kenyan Universities Daniel N. Sifuna and Ibrahim O. OandaChapter Ten: Tenure and Non-Tenure Track Systems in Turkish Academia: Current Status and Future ProspectsNihan DemirkasimogluChapter Eleven: The Beginnings of Resistance among Part-time Instructors in South KoreaSungok R. Park and Choi SoyungChapter Twelve: Disposable Academics: Neoliberalism, Anti-Intellectualism and the Rise of Contingent Faculty in Canadian UniversitiesNjoki Nathani Wane and Zuhra Abawi Chapter Thirteen: Afterthought: Unchaining Prometheus and Decaualizing Academic LaborIshmael I. MuneneReferencesAbout the Contributors