Revealing the manifestations of neoliberalism in academia: Academic collective action in Turkey
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Coşkan, Canan
Acar, Yasemin Gülsüm
Bayad, Aydın
Abstract / Description
Academic Collective Action (ACA) stands as a small-scale collective action for social change toward liberation, independence and equity in academia. Academic collectives in Turkey, as an example of ACA, prefigure building academia outside the university by emphasizing the extent to which neoliberal academia has already prepared the groundwork for more recent waves of oppression. In this research, we aim to reveal the manifestations of neoliberalism in ACA as captured with prominent social/political psychological concepts of collective action. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 21 dismissed academics to understand the social and political psychological processes in academic collectives. The narrations of ACA were accompanied by manifestations of neoliberalism as experienced by dismissed academics. We found that, as follows from the existing conceptual tools of collective action, neoliberalism serves as an embedded contextual factor in the process of ACA. This becomes mostly visible for grievances but also for collective identifications, politicization, motivations, finding/allocating resources and sustaining academic collectives. We provide a preliminary basis to understand the role of neoliberalism in organization, mobilization and empowerment dynamics of collective action.
Keyword(s)
academia neoliberalism oppression collective action academic mobilization Turkey akademi neoliberalizm baskı kolektif eylem akademik hareketlenme TürkiyePersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2021-09-07
Journal title
Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Volume
9
Issue
2
Page numbers
401–418
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
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publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Coşkan, C., Acar, Y. G., & Bayad, A. (2021). Revealing the manifestations of neoliberalism in academia: Academic collective action in Turkey. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 9(2), 401-418. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.7077
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Coşkan, Canan
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Acar, Yasemin Gülsüm
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Bayad, Aydın
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Date of first publication2021-09-07
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Abstract / DescriptionAcademic Collective Action (ACA) stands as a small-scale collective action for social change toward liberation, independence and equity in academia. Academic collectives in Turkey, as an example of ACA, prefigure building academia outside the university by emphasizing the extent to which neoliberal academia has already prepared the groundwork for more recent waves of oppression. In this research, we aim to reveal the manifestations of neoliberalism in ACA as captured with prominent social/political psychological concepts of collective action. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 21 dismissed academics to understand the social and political psychological processes in academic collectives. The narrations of ACA were accompanied by manifestations of neoliberalism as experienced by dismissed academics. We found that, as follows from the existing conceptual tools of collective action, neoliberalism serves as an embedded contextual factor in the process of ACA. This becomes mostly visible for grievances but also for collective identifications, politicization, motivations, finding/allocating resources and sustaining academic collectives. We provide a preliminary basis to understand the role of neoliberalism in organization, mobilization and empowerment dynamics of collective action.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationCoşkan, C., Acar, Y. G., & Bayad, A. (2021). Revealing the manifestations of neoliberalism in academia: Academic collective action in Turkey. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 9(2), 401-418. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.7077en_US
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ISSN2195-3325
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/5668
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.6272
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.7077
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4962
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Is related tohttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4957
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Is related tohttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4962
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Keyword(s)academiaen_US
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Keyword(s)neoliberalismen_US
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Keyword(s)oppressionen_US
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Keyword(s)collective actionen_US
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Keyword(s)academic mobilizationen_US
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Keyword(s)Turkeyen_US
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Keyword(s)akademitr_TR
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Keyword(s)neoliberalizmtr_TR
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Keyword(s)baskıtr_TR
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Keyword(s)kolektif eylemtr_TR
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Keyword(s)akademik hareketlenmetr_TR
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Keyword(s)Türkiyetr_TR
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleRevealing the manifestations of neoliberalism in academia: Academic collective action in Turkeyen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue2
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Journal titleJournal of Social and Political Psychology
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Page numbers401–418
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Volume9
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Visible tag(s)Version of Recorden_US