Academic mobility the 'other' way : embodying simultaneous privilege and precarity
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- Karolina Kluczewska (UGent)
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- The international academic mobility that we hear about most often concerns moving from the non-West to the West. It is far more rare for academics to go the ‘other’ way, i.e. from Western to non-Western academia. While I have been both ways, I owe the really transformative experience of my academic mobility to Tajik academia. This essay describes three of the many aspects of this formative experience, referring to the issues of mistrust, mutual favours and the culture of mediocracy. By being confronted with new academic conventions and practices, Tajik academia made me question my own positionality. It forced me to reflect on privilege and precarity which I simultaneously embodied, and offered a new perspective on Western academic culture.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01H0HX0A44W4H059V5HPB06FVH
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- Kluczewska, Karolina. “Academic Mobility the ‘other’ Way : Embodying Simultaneous Privilege and Precarity.” Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe, edited by Olga Burlyuk and Ladan Rahbari, Open Book Publishers, 2023, pp. 117–27, doi:10.11647/obp.0331.12.
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- Kluczewska, K. (2023). Academic mobility the “other” way : embodying simultaneous privilege and precarity. In O. Burlyuk & L. Rahbari (Eds.), Migrant academics’ narratives of precarity and resilience in Europe (pp. 117–127). https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0331.12
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- Kluczewska, Karolina. 2023. “Academic Mobility the ‘other’ Way : Embodying Simultaneous Privilege and Precarity.” In Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe, edited by Olga Burlyuk and Ladan Rahbari, 117–27. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0331.12.
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- Kluczewska, Karolina. 2023. “Academic Mobility the ‘other’ Way : Embodying Simultaneous Privilege and Precarity.” In Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe, ed by. Olga Burlyuk and Ladan Rahbari, 117–127. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. doi:10.11647/obp.0331.12.
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- 1.Kluczewska K. Academic mobility the “other” way : embodying simultaneous privilege and precarity. In: Burlyuk O, Rahbari L, editors. Migrant academics’ narratives of precarity and resilience in Europe. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers; 2023. p. 117–27.
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- [1]K. Kluczewska, “Academic mobility the ‘other’ way : embodying simultaneous privilege and precarity,” in Migrant academics’ narratives of precarity and resilience in Europe, O. Burlyuk and L. Rahbari, Eds. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023, pp. 117–127.
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