Under the Shadow of Time: Where Indicators and Academic Values Meet

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

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Ulrike Felt¹ 

[1] UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA;

关键词: chronopolitics;    indicators;    accountability;    metrics;    academic work;   

DOI  :  10.17351/ests2017.109

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This essay aims at relating the growth of indicators to the shifting temporalities of academic work. Drawing on research into academic work and lives but also on professional experiences, I develop the notion of chronopolitics to analyze the politics of time governing academic knowledge production, work and evaluation. Drawing on a range of examples, from the projectification of academic work and lives to the epistemic effects of strictly timed career structures, I point to the multiplication of theatres of accountability and to the shifting focus of academic work from a logic of discovery to one of delivery. In conclusion, I suggest moving beyond a debate of how to best play the indicator game, to a more fundamental critique of the entanglement of indicators and time, and to a re-timing of research as a political project.

【 授权许可】

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