Abstract

Academic conferences have a central role in shaping career trajectories, reproducing or resisting exclusions and moulding relations in and to academia, thus shaping academic networks. In this paper, we consider how precarious academics subvert and navigate conference spaces, including emerging online forms. Particularly, we explore how academic conferences generate and nurture friendship as an enduring political practice that undermines neoliberal economic, political and social structures. This is contextualised in UK higher education amidst mass job losses, increased precarity and the subsequent breaking of academic bonds. In interviews with academics and our own auto/ethnographical experiences, we explore how friendship emerges in and resists the exclusions of the conference space for precarious researchers. Finally, we explore how the nurture of friendship by precarious scholars at academic conferences promotes collective action to resist neoliberalism within the academy.

摘要

学术会议在塑造职业轨迹、复制或抵制排斥以及塑造学术界内部和与学术界的关系、从而塑造学术网络方面发挥着核心作用。在本文中，我们考虑了不稳定的学者如何颠覆和驾驭会议空间，包括新兴的在线形式。特别是，我们探讨学术会议如何产生和培养友谊，作为一种破坏新自由主义经济、政治和社会结构的持久政治实践。这在英国高等教育的背景下出现了大规模失业、不稳定性增加以及随后的学术纽带破裂。在对学者的采访和我们自己的汽车/民族志经验中，我们探讨了友谊如何出现在并抵制对不稳定的研究人员的会议空间的排斥。最后，