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dc.contributor.authorKuldova, Tereza Østbø
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-07T14:50:36Z
dc.date.available2021-12-07T14:50:36Z
dc.date.created2021-08-17T15:08:41Z
dc.date.issued2021-08
dc.identifier.citationEphemera : Theory and Politics in Organization. 2021, 21 (3), 43-71.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2052-1499
dc.identifier.issn1473-2866
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2833210
dc.description.abstractNorwegian academia is increasingly subject to governance by numbers. A mixture of New Public Management, corporate governance and the power wielded by management-consultant firms underpins this ‘triumph of numbers’ intended to stimulate competition, productivity and excellence. Disillusionment, individualization, insecurity, anxiety and envy, have, however, become its products. Few believe that metrics are neutral, unbiased or objective. On the contrary, individual and institutional practices of gaming statistics and manipulating ratings and indicators are widespread, together known as micro-fraud. Predatory publishers, predatory journals and fake metrics markets are growing, considered a ‘global threat’ to science. Gaming in response to quantified control is symptomatic of the neoliberal moral economy of fraud and the criminogenic marketization of academia (Whyte and Wiegratz, 2016). While there may be ‘true believers’ in governance by numbers, this article focuses on what appears as the more common figure of the academic cynic, arguing that the triumph of numbers and the reproduction of governance by numbers despite mounting critique and critical awareness has to be understood through the notions of ideological fantasy, disavowal and pleasure and through a particular mode of subjectivation – namely, gamified subjectivity. Reflecting on (auto-)ethnographic observations and interviews with academics and trade unionists in Norwegian academia, this article offers a theoretical contribution to the function of cynical ideology and gamified subjectivity for organizational reproduction and its consequences for the possibility of resistance. Resistance, it is argued, would involve externalization of disbelief and degaming of the academic, and putting measure back into its proper place. Can politics proper emerge despite organizational cynicism?en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherEphemera : Theory and Politics in Organizationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEphemera : Theory and Politics in Organization;Volume 21, number 3
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ephemerajournal.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/contribution/The%20cynical%20university.pdf
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/cynical-university-gamified-subjectivity-norwegian-academia
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectGamificationen_US
dc.subjectCynicismen_US
dc.subjectDisavowalsen_US
dc.subjectNumber governanceen_US
dc.subjectUniversitiesen_US
dc.subjectRefusalsen_US
dc.titleThe Cynical University: Gamified subjectivity in Norwegian academiaen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
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dc.identifier.doihttp://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/cynical-university-gamified-subjectivity-norwegian-academia
dc.identifier.cristin1926685
dc.source.journalEphemera : Theory and Politics in Organizationen_US
dc.source.volume21en_US
dc.source.issue3en_US
dc.source.pagenumber43-71en_US
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 314486en_US


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