{"id":353,"date":"2016-03-06T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T10:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/?p=353"},"modified":"2023-03-28T08:30:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:30:21","slug":"open-lecture-on-academic-anxiety-in-malmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/2016\/03\/06\/open-lecture-on-academic-anxiety-in-malmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Open lecture on academic anxiety, in Malm\u00f6"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>&#8220;Producing Anxiety in the Neoliberal University\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6>26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of April\u00a015.00 \u2013 17.00<\/h6>\n<h6>Open Lecture<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>ROOM: NI: B0E07 (B2)<\/h6>\n<h6>Niagara<\/h6>\n<h6>Nordenski\u00f6ldsgatan 1, Malm\u00f6<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>A joint event with Department of Urban Studies,<\/h6>\n<h6>Department of Social Work, Research Platform CRUSH,<\/h6>\n<h6>The Centre for Work Life and Evaluation Studies (CTA)<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Lawrence D. Berg, University of British Columbia,<\/h6>\n<h6>and Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Lund University<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>This presentation provides a theoretical analysis of the neoliberal production of anxiety in\u00a0academic faculty members in universities in Northern Europe. The paper focuses on\u00a0neoliberalization as it is instantiated through audit and ranking systems designed to\u00a0produce academia as a space of economic efficiency and intensifying competition. We\u00a0suggest that powerful forms of competition and ranking of academic performance have\u00a0been developed in Northern Europe. These systems are differentiated and differentiating,\u00a0and they serve to both index and facilitate the neoliberalization of the academy. \u00a0Moreover, these audit and ranking systems produce an ongoing sense of anxiety among\u00a0academic workers. We argue that neoliberalism in the academy is part of a wider system\u00a0of anxiety production arising as part of the so-called \u2018soft governance\u2019 of everything,\u00a0including life itself, in contemporary late liberalism. (Co-author Edward H Huijbens,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/institution\/University_of_Akureyri\/department\/School_of_Business_and_Science\">School of Business and Science<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/institution\/University_of_Akureyri\">University of Akureyri, Iceland).<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Lawrence D. Berg\u00a0is Professor of Critical Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada. \u00a0He 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. \u00a0Lawrence is one of the founding editors of ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, currently in its 15th year of publication. \u00a0He recently completed 18 years as a member of the international steering committee of the International Critical Geography Group.<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Henrik Gutzon Larsen\u00a0is Associate Professor\u00a0of Human Geography at Lund University. His work revolves around\u00a0relations\u00a0between power and space. More specifically, his current research addresses\u00a0questions concerning urban\u00a0politics and change, housing, histories of\u00a0geographical thought and (small-state) geopolitics. Henrik is part of the\u00a0CRUSH\u00a0(Critical Urban Sustainability Hub) research project.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Producing Anxiety in the Neoliberal University\u201d 26th\u00a0of April\u00a015.00 \u2013 17.00 Open Lecture ROOM: NI: B0E07 (B2) Niagara Nordenski\u00f6ldsgatan 1, Malm\u00f6 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, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/2016\/03\/06\/open-lecture-on-academic-anxiety-in-malmo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open lecture on academic anxiety, in Malm\u00f6&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}