A Boycott of Academic Ranking Systems? Critical Legal Thinking
A Boycott of Academic Ranking Systems?
Universities and institutions of higher education across the globe are being impacted by structural change, guided by principles of the entrepreneurial university. The imposition of New Public Management principles means that universities are increasingly being managed like private enterprises. Resources are being allocated according to performance records and target agreements. Academic capitalism has entered Germany, and its main instruments are university department rankings and league tables. The downside is an academic routine biased towards quantitative performance indicators (research funding, number of doctorates and graduates) and a neglect of qualitative criteria. Work in academia has changed fundamentally in both design and content. Teaching and research are increasingly being obstructed by the growth of administrative responsibilities. There is a logic of escalation inherent in performance measurement exercises (“more and more and never enough”), resulting in work intensification, stress, and overload amongst all groups of the academic workforce. Negative effects on the quality of research and teaching are increasingly being felt.
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Caribe Abierto ( ) Ensayos Críticos
Caribe abierto () Ensayos críticos
Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia, editor
Esta colección de ensayos críticos, en palabras de su compilador, “estropea la nitidez disciplinaria o la corrección moral de tantos relatos bienpensantes y aguacatones dedicados apenas al inventario de las particularidades identitarias de las islas.” No es la “tendencia dominante” la que guía la exploración de un posible espacio caribeño, sino las subjetividades singulares, anómalas, imposibles; así como los actos abyectos, inmotivados e increíbles. El registro crítico alcanza de los delirios salubristas del doctor Ashley en San Juan de Puerto Rico a las orgías contra-dantescas de José Lezama Lima.
New Book: Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia’s “Caribe abierto ( ) Ensayos críticos” | Repeating Islands
Caribe abierto ( ) Ensayos críticos is a collection of critical essays published by the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature [Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana], edited by Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia.Description: In the words of the editor, this critical anthology “spoils the disciplinary sharpness or moral correctness of many well-pondered narratives barely dedicated to presenting an inventory of the identity particularities of the islands.” What guides the exploration of a possible Caribbean space here is not the “mainstream tendency” but rather unique, anomalous, and impossible subjectivities, as well as abject, unmotivated, and unbelievable actions. The works’ critical register spans from the health deliria of Dr. Ashley in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to the counter-Dantesque orgies of José Lezama Lima.
The contributors are Lena Burgos-Lafuente, Ana Serra, Ivette Rodríguez-Santana, Horacio Legrás, Marilyn Grace Miller, Néstor E. Rodríguez, Francisco Morán, Eduardo González, Laura Maccioni, and Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia.
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