Emotional Labor in Academia: Student Course Evaluations in the Process of Marketization<\/strong><\/p>\nAy\u015feg\u00fcl Akdemir Son- Rahime S\u00fcleymano\u011flu-K\u00fcr\u00fcm- Ay\u015fenur Emer- Ay\u015fe S\u0131la Nur Dal<\/p>\n
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Although there is a large body of literature on the marketization of higher education and the impact of neoliberalism on universities, emotional labor practices in academia have not been sufficiently covered.\u00a0 This article aims to fill this mentioned gap and contribute to recognizing emotional labor as a form of labor in academia.\u00a0 Several themes stand out in the in-depth interviews conducted with academics around the course evaluation surveys. Our findings suggest that course evaluation surveys are not considered reliable by academics and do not work as a tool for feedback due to the way they are implemented. This situation damages the student-academician relationship. Moreover, the use of surveys contributes to the marketization of higher education and the depoliticization of university education. By using these surveys in performance evaluations, academics are obliged to act according to student expectations, which weakens course content and hinders critical thinking. On the other hand, in-depth interviews based on the surveys also uncovered gender-based differences. Surveys indicate that female academics are locked into the role of \u201cacademic mother\u201d and this situation entices female academics to perform more emotional labor than their male colleagues and goes beyond their professional roles. The emotional responses of academics to surveys are complex and multidimensional, too profound to be explained solely by depersonalizing negative feedback from student surveys or by creating emotional distance to protect themselves from stress. Interviews show that these surveys had profound emotional effects on academics and intensified their emotional labor practices.\u00a0 These findings highlight the need to re-evaluate course evaluation surveys in terms of both the quality of education and their impact on academics.<\/p>\n
Keywords: <\/strong>Academia, marketization, emotional labor, gender, course evaluation surveys<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Bar\u0131nam\u0131yoruz [We Can’t Shelter] Movement<\/em>: Students’ Demands for the Right to Housing in the Grip of Authoritarian Neoliberalism<\/strong><\/p>\nOzan Bal – Hakan Y\u00fccel<\/p>\n
In recent years, high inflation and authoritarianism have been intensely discussed in Turkey, while the perspective on universities has also paralleled these. In the relevant literature, the topics focused on student life have been the pressure mechanisms in universities, precarious youth labor, debt, diploma inflation and the sense of futurelessness. On the other hand, although not yet the subject of comprehensive studies, student youth have also developed collective reactions under these conditions. One of these is the Bar\u0131nam\u0131yoruz Movement<\/em>, which started with a protest in September 2021 in Istanbul by a group of young people sleeping in a park to draw attention to the housing problem and quickly became a platform that triggered other park vigils or dormitory protests in different parts of Turkey. Bar\u0131nam\u0131yoruz<\/em> is an important experience in terms of showing that the student movement can create new demands and new practices under the conditions of authoritarian neoliberalism. We asked the question of how these protests were organized and sought an answer to this question with a field research based on interviews with young people who took the initiative in the movement. Based on the findings of the field research, we first explained this situation with the changes in the student space caused by authoritarian neoliberal policies such as the massification of the university, the expansion of its place in physical and social space, the spread of student debt, the creation of a fragile youth labor force, and the deepening of this whole cycle with the housing problem. We argued that the contradictions between the university designed with these policies, the perceived university image, and the experienced student life deepened and that students did not feel like students. We then stated that Bar\u0131nam\u0131yoruz<\/em> adopted a self-organization logic that would also spread the movement in the face of the expansion of the university and certain strategic attitudes that made this possible, in other words, it took a position in the field of the student movement that was suitable for this spatial change. Thus, we argued that the movement caused a kind of economic struggle form to the tendency of young people who could not feel like students, believed that they could not live their youth, and were disturbed by this, to claim youthfulness.<\/p>\nKeywords: <\/strong>Housing, student movement, university, production of space, collective action<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
From Assessment to Condemnation: Neoliberal Subjectivities in the Academia<\/strong><\/p>\nLeyla Bekta\u015f Ata<\/p>\n
This study examines the impact of neoliberalism on academia and the market-oriented transformation of universities. Neoliberalism weakens collective structures by placing the individual at the center and dominating the academic environment with a corporate logic. In universities, attributes such as competition, entrepreneurship, and individuality are prioritized, reshaping academic production based on personal achievement and market demands. Focusing on the effects of neoliberal policies on Turkish universities since the 1980s, this article discusses the rise of the neoliberal subject and its influence on academic publication processes. Competitive dynamics prioritize individual success over collective values, eroding fundamental academic principles such as equality, solidarity, and open communication. The research analyzes how market-driven pressures have personalized the publication process, based on peer review reports received by both national and international academic articles, along with the responses of editors and authors to these evaluations. It offers a systematic critique of academia\u2019s transformation under free-market conditions and argues for reclaiming the public mission of academia while resisting the commodification of knowledge.<\/p>\n
Keywords: <\/strong>Neoliberalism, university, academic publishing evaluation, peer review, public sphere<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is All about You\u201d: Homo-Neoliberalus and Psychological Epistemology<\/strong><\/p>\nErsin Asl\u0131t\u00fcrk – Sertan Batur<\/p>\n
In recent years, there have been important debates within the discipline of psychology on the psychology of neoliberalism and the neoliberalism of psychology. Compared to other humanistic disciplines, critical discussions on this issue in psychology are delayed, but they correspond to an important need. While, on the one hand, the neoliberal\/entrepreneurial subjects try to improve themselves, grow, be happy, use their happiness as capital, and regulate their emotions and inner worlds effectively, on the other hand, the discipline of psychology holds these subjects\u2019 hands and guides them in the context of these psycho-economic needs. This article first briefly summarizes the psychology of the neoliberal subject, and then reveals the individualist epistemological and ontological framework of psychology that matured as neoliberalism rose in the last century. Then, issues such as the construction of the entrepreneurial self, psychologization, essentialism and responsibilization, the growth\/development imperative and emotion\/mind management are critically discussed. Finally, in the current authoritarian neoliberal period, where political and social alienation increases, the individual-focused messages given by psychology gurus are analyzed and the possibilities of epistemic resistance\/praxis are discussed.<\/p>\n
Keywords: <\/strong>Neoliberalism, neoliberal subject, psychology, psychologization, critical psychology<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nRound Table<\/strong><\/p>\nAt the Margins and at the Center of the Academy: Crisis, Resistance and Freedom**<\/strong><\/p>\nDiscussors: <\/strong>Ezgi P\u0131nar, G\u00fcrsan \u015eenalp, H\u00fclya Kendir and Aysuda K\u00f6lemen<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Climate Crisis with its Gender and Urban Dimensions: An Analysis Based on the Assessments of Alternative Agri-Food Actors in Istanbul<\/strong><\/p>\nSelma De\u011firmenci- Ayla Ezgi Akyol Giatzoglou<\/em><\/p>\nThe climate crisis caused by patriarchal capitalism is having an increasingly devastating impact upon the agri-food system. The production of food within the industrial agri-food system triggers the climate crisis on the one hand and makes access to food a burning issue on the other. This article aims to understand the effects of the climate crisis on the city and the agri-food system with a gender dimension through interviews with volunteers who are trying to build alternative production-consumption networks in Istanbul by working in cooperatives, food communities, urban gardens, etc. Through in-depth interviews with 11 women and 11 men from alternative agri-food actors, the ways in which the climate crisis is experienced in the city and its impact on the agri-food system are analyzed. In addition, it is questioned how to fight against the crisis in the city and how gender affects both the way the crisis is experienced and the solutions that can be developed against this problem.<\/p>\n
Keywords: Climate crisis, alternative agri-food actors, gender, patriarchal capitalism, city.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Book Review: \u201cOccupy, resist, produce\u201d: If Workers Take the Helm<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00c7a\u011fatay Edg\u00fccan \u015eahin<\/strong><\/p>\nG\u00fcrler, D. (2023) <\/strong>\u0130\u015f\u00e7i Denetimi M\u00fccadelesi: \u0130\u015fgal, Direni\u015f, \u00dcretim!<\/em>, \u0130stanbul: \u0130leti\u015fim Yay\u0131nlar\u0131, 272 sf.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Book Review:\u00a0 Capitalism and Democracy: The Anatomy of\u00a0 a Dichotomy<\/strong><\/p>\nCo\u015fku \u00c7elik<\/strong><\/p>\nCemgil, C ve \u00d6. Turan <\/strong>(2023) Kapitalizm ve Demokrasi: Bir Z\u0131tl\u0131\u011f\u0131n Anatomisi<\/em>, \u0130stanbul: Metis Yay\u0131nlar\u0131, 320 sf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editors Co\u015fku \u00c7elik, Ecehan Balta, Ezgi Do\u011fru Publication Secretary \u00dcmit \u00d6zger Issue Editors Demet \u00d6zmen Y\u0131lmaz, Koray Y\u0131lmaz, Umut Ulukan This Issue\u2026 Praksis Issue…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sayilar-en","category-tumsayilar-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praksis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praksis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praksis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praksis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praksis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.praksis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/www.praksis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praksis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praksis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praksis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praksis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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