It’s been a fun year for me (leaving aside here, you know, many disturbing political events, trends, pomps and circumstances, because this isn’t that kind of blog)\u00a0because some of my post-dissertation work is actually in print.<\/p>\n
\nViz:<\/p>\n
I have to say, not having done much mainstream disciplinary\u00a0publishing before, I found\u00a0myself agreeing\u00a0with the received wisdom\u00a0that scholarly publishing is\u00a0a tremendously long process. The first paper went through at least eleven drafts and\u00a0two journals. For the second paper, which has some nifty animated diagrams, I had something like sixty email exchanges\u00a0over the past six months with the journal staff who organized and realized the animations. \u00a0Not\u00a0all these\u00a0steps\u00a0were time-intensive, but cumulatively they added up\u00a0to\u00a0quite\u00a0a bit of work.<\/p>\n
One\u00a0of the inevitable results of the slow publishing process is that some of the work is born dated. For example,\u00a0one of my claims in the paper on precarity is that a lot of anti-precarity organizing isn’t actually by precarious academic\u00a0staff themselves, but is rather\u00a0handled by a set of union delegates who themselves are not precarious. I also suggested that precarious academics\u00a0tend to avoid identifying personally as precarious. If I were writing the paper this year, I might have\u00a0changed those claims a bit, because a new “Collective of precarious workers of Higher Education and Research<\/a>” emerged\u00a0in France last spring. It\u00a0seems to be\u00a0getting a lot of the attention that the traditional\u00a0union apparatus used to get, and it does speak more in the first person (albeit plural, not singular).<\/p>\n As far as the other paper, it turns out that I slipped in an unwarranted assumption that Sarkozy was only the past<\/em>\u00a0President of France:<\/p>\n The Ronde had initially been launched by French activist academics in March 2009, during Nicolas Sarkozy\u2019s five-year term as president of the French Republic…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n Now that Sarkozy is running for President again, it’s possible I may live to regret that assumption as well. History undoes academic knowledge so rapidly, one might say. It’s hard to know how to narrate the past if you don’t know the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a fun year for me (leaving aside here, you know, many disturbing political events, trends, pomps and circumstances, because this isn’t that kind of blog)\u00a0because some of my post-dissertation work is actually in print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[488,729],"tags":[762,761,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n