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Akademikerprekariatet
Get PDFTraditionelt i klasseteori anses akademikere for en relativt privilegeret samfundsgruppe
med små interne forskelle. Teorierne tager dog ikke i udpræget
grad højde for udbredelsen af prekære arbejdsforhold. En række empiriske
studier af det akademiske arbejdsmarked har peget på, at der er sket en udbredelse
af atypisk arbejde herhjemme og i det øvrige Europa. Med inspiration
fra Guy Standings nye klasseteori, forsøger denne artikel at vise, hvorvidt teorien
om prekariatet er en anvendelig tilgang til at forstå forskelle mellem akademikere.
Med data indsamlet fra European Social Survey (ESS) gennemføres
en specifik multipel korrespondanceanalyse (SMCA), der afsøger fem af Guy
Standings (2011) syv usikkerhedsformer for akademikere. Fra analysen kan vi
kortlægge tre forskellige klynger af akademikere: En overvejende majoritet i
et salariat og to minoritetsgrupper i henholdsvis en ’irregulære klynge’ og i et
decidere ’akademisk prekariat’. Vi konkluderer, at differentieringer i arbejdsmæssig
sikkerhed blandt akademikere er en valid måde at undersøge forskelle
blandt gruppens medlemmer. Samtidig påpeger vi, at atypisk ansættelse generelt
set kan anskues som prekære arbejdsforhold. De relativt store forskelle
mellem forskellige fagfelter understøtter de forklaringsmodeller på hierarkier
på arbejdsmarkedet, som man finder i mikroklasseteorien og de weberianske
teorier om ’social closure’. Endelig diskuterer artiklen hvorvidt prekære bør
anskues som et udpræget livsbaneforhold for yngre akademikere.
ENGELSK ABSTRACT
Torsten Geelan, Magnus Skovrind Pedersen and Malthe Øland Ribe:
The Academic Precariat
Theories of social class have traditionally described highly educated people
as a privileged group in society. However in the past decade several studies
of the academic labour market in Europe have shown that precarious forms
of employment are becoming increasingly common. This article assesses the
extent to which Guy Standing’s perspective on class and precariat is a fruitful
way of understanding labour market differentiation among university
graduates. It applies multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) to data from
the European Social Survey (ESS) to analyse five of Standing’s seven forms of
labour market insecurity in relation to the Danish labour market. Four idealtype
labour market positions are identified. These show substantial differences
between university graduates from different academic fields. The article
concludes by discussing the relationship between precarious employment
and life-course trajectories.
Keywords: Precarity, academics, labour market sociology, class theory, correspondence
analysis
Interview med Svend Larsen, direktør for Det Kgl. Bibliotek
Get PDFSammenlægningen af Danmarks hidtil to største national- og forskningsbiblioteker – Statsbiblioteket i Aarhus og Det Kongelige Bibliotek i København - trådte i kraft den 1. januar 2017 under navnet Det Kgl. Bibliotek med Statsbibliotekets tidligere direktør, Svend Larsen, som direktør. Svend Larsen blev konstitueret direktør tilbage i september 2016 for at stå i spidsen for den sammenlægning, som REVY her har fået mulighed for at spørge ind til
Emotional Public: Treme as Post-Katrina Trauma Narrative
Get PDFCultural traumas are social, discursive and narrative processes where traumatic events, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and their memories are described and interpreted. In fiction, in this case in HBO’s drama series Treme (2010-2013), trauma-related experiences are given meaning through narration, and in this mediation process collective memories are constructed. In this article, I analyze the ways in which the narration of Treme represents loss and remembering. I argue that by emphasizing sentimental nostalgia and the emotional reactions of the characters, the narration aims to create sympathy and empathy in the viewers, and in this way the drama series creates an emotional public sphere for the discussions over the rebuilding of post-Katrina New Orleans
Adam S. Miller's The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in and Age of Distraction
No full textRebranding a South Los Angeles Corner Store: The Unique Logic of Retail Brands
Get PDFRetail brands are important mediators of culture and value that help us understand contemporary consumption. Drawing on a collaborative ethnographic approach to a corner store-rebranding project in South Los Angeles, we demonstrate the ways in which physical retail spaces and their curated product mix can shape specific types of shopping experiences and behaviors. Building on recent studies of brand, we argue that retail curation is another important consideration for understanding how brand communications are formed, filtered and expressed. Expanding on theorizations of brand we demonstrate how retail brands, as physical sites of experience, can attempt to influence relationships between consumption, identity and behavior
