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What’s love got to do with it? Precarious academic labour forces and the role of passion in Italian universities

Busso, Sandro ORCID: 0000-0003-2739-4559 and Rivetti, Paola (2014) What’s love got to do with it? Precarious academic labour forces and the role of passion in Italian universities. Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques, 45 (2). pp. 15-37. ISSN 1782-1592

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Abstract

This article examines the role of passion among precarious labour force in the Italian academia. By relying on C. Wright Mill’s distinction between “passion as a reason” of action and “passion as a motive” to represent and discuss one’s employment condition, the article concludes that the symbolic strength of passion is correlated to its applicability both as a tool to govern recruitment in neo-liberal academia and as a strategy to fit recruitment criteria and “become employable”. The article is based on more than four-year long documentation and participant observation in political initiatives and campaigns organised by precarious, non-tenured research staff in Italian universities.

Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Precariousness; University; Research; Labour; neo­liberalism, academia; passion
Subjects:Social Sciences > Public administration
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government
Publisher:Universite Catholique de Louvain * Recherches Sociologiques
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.4000/rsa.1243
Copyright Information:© 2014 Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques. Open Access.
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:23159
Deposited On:10 Apr 2019 15:02 by Paola Rivetti . Last Modified 10 Apr 2019 15:02

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