Titel
Under the Shadow of Time: Where Indicators and Academic Values Meet
Autor*in
Abstract
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.
Stichwort
chronopoliticsindicatorsaccountabilitymetricsacademic work
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:860599
Erschienen in
Titel
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
Band
3
Seitenanfang
53
Publication
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Zugänglichkeit
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