This open access book explores the hidden politics of time—the chronopolitics—that profoundly shapes the contours of academic life and knowledge production in contemporary universities.
Ulrike Felt is professor and head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) as well as of the interfaculty research platform ‘Responsible research and innovation in academic practice’ at University of Vienna, Austria.
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction.- PART 1 – CONCEPTUALISING AND MAKING TIME IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH.- 2. The temporal fabric of academic lives.- 3. Technologies of making time—on the proliferation of “time generators”.- 4. Knowing and living in research – On temporal sense-making.- PART 2 — EXPERIENCING TIME IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH.- 5. Academic lives in the fast lane.- 6. Academic lifelines—Trajectorising messy lives.- 7. Academic waiting games.- 8. Owning time.- 9. Time, quality, and accountability.- 10. Epistemic Temporalities.-PART 3 – DISCUSSION AND CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS.- 11. Discussion: Knowing times.- 12. Concluding reflections: Chronopolitics of academic research.