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Title: KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTIONS GENDER : an east-west comparative study


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KNOWLEDGEINSTITUTIONSGENDERan east-west
comparative study
  • Times and trajectories
  • Alice Cervinková and Lisa Garforth
  • With contributions from Marcela Linkova Ulrike
    Felt Ismo Kantola Zuzana Kiczkova Anne
    Kovaleinen Seppo Poutanen Lisa Sigl, Mariana
    Szapuová Veronika Woehrer.

2
Why times?
  • A way in to researchers experiences and
    meanings...
  • ... working around / beneath top-down and
    official constructions of research activities and
    careers
  • Resisting / revisiting spatial metaphors of
    epistemic life
  • Reflexivity the times of KNOWING

3
What times? A conceptual framework
  • TIMESCAPES (Adam 1994)
  • multidimensionality situatedness
  • Timeframes
  • Timing
  • Tempo
  • TRAJECTORIES narratives of past-present-future.
    Career times.
  • EVERYDAY TIMES daily times in epistemic life
    spaces.

4
Trajectories Contexts imagining excellence
  • European and national policies
  • Intense political prioritisation of research.
  • Glittering futures of the knowledge economy.
  • National narratives
  • lagging behind catching up staying ahead.

5
Trajectories The normative linear career
  • I did a degree. I did a PhD immediately
    afterwards. One short postdoc and then one longer
    one... I got a nice comfortable well-funded
    position. And then I got a lectureship and I
    didnt drop off the bandwagon.
  • F bioscientist UK
  • Natural sciences
  • Discrete ages and stages unbroken trajectory
  • The apprenticeship is quite long and pretty
    intense. If you drop out its so difficult to get
    back in again. M bioscientist, UK.

6
Trajectories Patchworks and other horizontal
careers
  • ...one potential frightful scenario is that I
    dont have the guts to leave this world, that
    Ill be here hanging on in short term temp
    jobs...
  • M social scientist, FI
  • I am not going to stick around as some
    desperate university hang-around that you see at
    the university, some grants here, some grants
    there, then youre unemployed, and then you have
    a project for three years. If I cant establish
    my own position permanent position, Im
    quitting.
  • F bioscience postgrad, FI

7
TrajectoriesPatchworks and horizontal careers
  • For many researchers, calendar time continued to
    run but career time was stopped or dispersed
  • Women were more likely to be left behind or
    hanging on in their careers.
  • Many struggled to narrate their careers
    past/present/future did not add up to the
    normative ideal or their biographical
    narratives offered alternative criteria for
    success
  • They often experienced lack of institutional
    recognition despite performing valuable work
  • .

8
Everyday time
  • Trying to fit everything into your day...its
    like a parcel that you need to pack.
  • F bioscientist, UK
  • When Im lucky, I am just about in time...But
    rather it is typical for my work that I always
    have too much and that Im never done, and that
    always something new turns up ... Thats
    typical for science. Social scientist, AT

9
Everyday timeno time to think?
  • Sometimes I think again a day has passed and I
    havent managed to do a single experiment, ok?
    And at the same time I am my most efficient
    worker. Bioscientist, AT.
  • Acceleration and overload loss of slow,
    immersive times of reflection loss of autonomy
    and collegiality
  • BUT time to think is also embedded in the daily
    times of material epistemic cultures, and
    thinking is contingent and multiple

10
Gendering everyday time
  • Finding time and making time in the everyday is
    conflictual, gendered and political
  • I think its fair to say that women in the
    department do a lot of invisible caretaking which
    frees up the time of these men in the department.
    Theres something about women not allowing
    ourselves to do that. Not being ahead of the
    game, saying you want to protect your time and
    absenting yourself to do that.
  • F social scientist, UK

11
Beyond work-life balanceTime disciplines in the
audit academy
  • Taking time and moving time
  • Time autonomy and flexibility
  • Finding time and making time
  • But its output oriented
  • Audit/performativity internalised individual
    time disciplines (career, excellence,
    competition)

12
Thinking across work and lifeThe vocational mode
  • Watch out, I live sociology, which means I
    dont work! social scientist, SK.
  • Dissolving work-life boundaries, performing the
    epistemic self
  • Long hours in the vocational mode
  • Its not about the amount of time you spend at
    work, but rather how you feel that this is a
    vocational job, so that the ones who feel that
    vocation act naturally in a way that meets their
    own norms...And again, if you dont feel it as
    your vocation then youre simply in the wrong
    field. bioscientist, FI

13
Gender and the vocational modeFinding time to
not think in epistemic life spaces?
  • ... there is this sort of academic culture which
    I suspect men do more than women of working every
    hour God sends. And I have absolutely no desire
    to work every hour god sends...I want to have a
    life as well. If you look at academics who have
    got on ... theyre all-consumed by it. And they
    love it. I find it interesting but I want to have
    a life beyond it. F social scientist, UK.
  • If I had to choose, I would without question
    leave this and live a life, not bury myself in
    some science.F social scientist, FI.

14
Times and trajectoriesConclusions
  • Adding it up?
  • Everyday times and trajectories
    incommensurabilities and conflicts
  • Whose time regimes?
  • Vocation as a gendered mode of ordering
  • Speaking to policy
  • Recognising and supporting patchwork, horizontal
    and moving careers
  • Work and life beyond the rational management of
    clock time
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