0436283 - FLÚ 2016 RIV GB eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Vostal, Filip
Speed kills, speed thrills. Constraining and enabling accelerations in academic work-life.
Globalisation, Societies and Education. Roč. 13, č. 3 (2015), s. 295-314. ISSN 1476-7724. E-ISSN 1476-7732
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985955
Klíčová slova: social acceleration * intensification * time * academia * academic work
Kód oboru RIV: AO - Sociologie, demografie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2014.959895

Intensification, speed of change and faster pace of life have recently emerged as significant issues in studies analysing the current academic climate. This article takes up the 'social acceleration thesis' as a conceptual resource for capturing the relationship between the individual experience of time and the changing structure and operations of contemporary academia. Using qualitative data from the UK, it analyses the texture and implications of the accelerating pace of academic work-life. It argues that such pace is both resented, as well as strategically managed by academics. In this way, the analysis opens up more agentic approach to the overall dynamisation in academic work-life and argues that it is possible to conceive acceleration as practical and even thrilling. Against the background of such an approach, the article concludes by stating that acceleration in academic work-life is an ambivalent experience and by questioning recent propositions under the label of slow academia.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0240262