Genusforskning och samhället

Tid:	2016-03-08 09:15 — 2016-03-08 19:00
Plats:	D222 på Malmö högskola, Orkanen, Nordenskiöldsgatan 10, Malmö.
Målgrupp:	Alla intresserade

“Producing Anxiety in the Neoliberal University”

26^th of April 15.00 – 17.00

Open Lecture

ROOM: NI: B0E07 (B2)

Niagara

Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, Malmö

A joint event with Department of Urban Studies,

Department of Social Work, Research Platform CRUSH,

The Centre for Work Life and Evaluation Studies (CTA)

Lawrence D. Berg, University of British Columbia,

and Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Lund University

This presentation provides a theoretical analysis of the neoliberal production of anxiety in academic faculty members in universities in Northern Europe. The paper focuses on neoliberalization as it is instantiated through audit and ranking systems designed to produce academia as a space of economic efficiency and intensifying competition. We suggest that powerful forms of competition and ranking of academic performance have been developed in Northern Europe. These systems are differentiated and differentiating, and they serve to both index and facilitate the neoliberalization of the academy.  Moreover, these audit and ranking systems produce an ongoing sense of anxiety among academic workers. We argue that neoliberalism in the academy is part of a wider system of anxiety production arising as part of the so-called ‘soft governance’ of everything, including life itself, in contemporary late liberalism. (Co-author Edward H Huijbens, School of Business and Science, University of Akureyri, Iceland).

Lawrence D. Berg is Professor of Critical Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada.  He is leader of the Social, Spatial and Economic Justice Research Cluster in the UBC Institute for Community Engaged Research. Lawrence has published more than 80 works in critical geography, including numerous papers on the neoliberalization of higher education.  Lawrence is one of the founding editors of ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, currently in its 15th year of publication.  He recently completed 18 years as a member of the international steering committee of the International Critical Geography Group.

Henrik Gutzon Larsen is Associate Professor of Human Geography at Lund University. His work revolves around relations between power and space. More specifically, his current research addresses questions concerning urban politics and change, housing, histories of geographical thought and (small-state) geopolitics. Henrik is part of the CRUSH (Critical Urban Sustainability Hub) research project.

 

The registration for the International Conference on Migration, Irregularisation and Activism: Challenging Contemporary Border Regimes, Racism and Subordination in Malmö 15-16 of June 2016 is now open to everyone, including those who are not presenting a paper. We hope to see many of you there! https://blogg.mah.se/miaconference/registration/

Welcome to join our workshops on Arts-based migration research and/or Right to have rights, to take place at the 18th Nordic Migration Research Conference on August 11-12, 2016 in Oslo, Norway. Abstracts of no more than 400 words are to be submitted via the conference website no later than March 15, 2016. At the conference site you also find the conference program and relevant practical information: http://www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences-and-seminars/the-18th-nordic-migration-conference/index.html

 

Anna Lundberg (Malmö University), on behalf of myself and colleagues Dr Righard, Dr Strange and Dr Spång and in Malmö

 

Call for Paper Abstracts:

The right to have rights and irregular migration

Workshop organisers: Anna Lundberg, Malmö University, Michael Strange, Malmö University & Mikael Spång, Malmö University.

Irregular migration raises several questions about access to human rights, the basis of human rights and political action among and on behalf of stateless persons. In this workshop we will take a look at these questions in the light of Hannah Arendt’s discussion of the right to have rights in The origins of totalitarianism and her reflections on modernity in The human condition.

Papers addressing questions about irregularity in the context of theoretical accounts of human rights are invited, as well as more general approaches to the question of political action in theory and practice.

 

ARTS-BASED MIGRATION RESEARCH – emerging connections between arts and social sciences

 

International migration, in all its dimensions and complexity, should be studied from multiple perspectives and with varied approaches. This workshop aims at exploring migration beyond the traditional boundaries of social science by integrating arts practice as a basis for analyses of migration. Arts-based research is here understood as a diverse set of methodologies that are based in artistic processes as a way of formulating research questions and collecting empirical material. Furthermore, the outcome of the analysis is often presented in artistic forms. Arts-based research is also understood as a methodology that can take the research process in directions that traditional science cannot. As migration often involves experiences that are difficult to write down or put words on, so called tacit forms of knowledge, we find it relevant to explore what we can learn about migration from arts-based research.

This panel aims both at enhancing new (forms of) knowledge about migration and at stimulating the discussion about arts-based research within the field of migration studies. Migration is here understood in a broad sense. It can, for instance, refer to international and internal migration, diversity and ethnic relations, as well as responses to and experiences of migration and diversity.

We invite presentations about migration that combine arts-based practice (performance, installation, photo, poetry, etc.) with social science analytical perspectives and methodologies (ethnography, visual sociology, etc.). Contributions with a theoretical focus, as well as more practice-based presentations are welcome. This open invitation might include, but is not limited to, discussions on arts-based methodologies in migration studies, arts-based empirical analysis of migration, and the role of art in social research and in migration.

The accepted paper abstracts will be put together into one or two coherent research workshops consisting of three to four paper presentations each. In order to facilitate the discussion, a discussant among the presenters will be appointed to each paper presentation.