The neurotic academic: how anxiety fuels casualised academic work

Anxiety is being used as a tactic of governance to fuel productiveness and obedience among academics, argues Vik Loveday

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May 20, 2018

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May 25, 2018

Vik Loveday

Twitter: @VikLoveday

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Print headline: Anxious academy: the precarity of work is making academics neurotic

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