Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities seeks to develop a counterculture that eschews the neoliberal ideology and interloping market values in higher education. More than merely lamenting the disruptive effects of these marketplace values in higher education institutions, it develops both theoretical insights and practical organizing strategies pertinent to challenging new academic-capitalist values and behaviors. Contributors, local and international, present cases from various institutions to illuminate how national trends concerning contingent faculty are articulated, implemented, and challenged at the local level. They present organizing strategies which are analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective, providing a thorough and comprehensive view of the contingent labor movement. This book will provide useful lessons to a broad array of audiences in universities, labor movements, and national and local governments.

List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsForeword: Contingency at the CrossroadsGuy SenesePart One: University Transformation and Faculty Agency Chapter One: Introduction: The Casualization of Academic Labor & Faculty AgencyIshmael I. MuneneChapter Two: Prometheus Redefined: Theorizing & Contextualizing Contingent Faculty in UniversitiesIshmael I. MuneneChapter Three: The Metro Strategy: A workforce-appropriate, geography-based approach to organizing contingent facultyJoe Berry and Helena WorthenPart Two: Reclaiming the Faculty Narrative in the United States Chapter Four: Vulnerable, But Not Silent: Unpacking Discourses of Fear Surrounding NTT FacultyNora Timmerman Chapter Five: Notes from the Field: Mobilizing Non-Tenure Track Faculty at the University of ArizonaSean Rys, Joel Smith, and Kristin LittleChapter Six: Reclaiming Academic Labor in a Democratic State: Mediating the Neoliberal University Assault on the ProfessoriateTiffany KraftChapter Seven: The Theft of Adjunct Faculty Labor Time: Theorizing Exchange Value and Resistance from a Marxist PerspectivePhilippa Winkler Chapter Eight: Democracy, Shared Governance, and Academic Freedom for All Faculty Brian A. Stone and Sandra J. Stone Part Three: Global Cases of Faculty Narrative and Agency Chapter Nine: Non-Tenured Academics and the Dilemma of the Academic Profession in Kenyan Universities Daniel N. Sifuna and Ibrahim O. OandaChapter Ten: Tenure and Non-Tenure Track Systems in Turkish Academia: Current Status and Future ProspectsNihan DemirkasimogluChapter Eleven: The Beginnings of Resistance among Part-time Instructors in South KoreaSungok R. Park and Choi SoyungChapter Twelve: Disposable Academics: Neoliberalism, Anti-Intellectualism and the Rise of Contingent Faculty in Canadian UniversitiesNjoki Nathani Wane and Zuhra Abawi Chapter Thirteen: Afterthought: Unchaining Prometheus and Decaualizing Academic LaborIshmael I. MuneneReferencesAbout the Contributors