The neurotic academic: anxiety,casualisation, and governance in the neoliberalising university

Based on empirical research conducted with academic staff working on fixed-term contracts, the article explores the subjective experience of anxiety in the UK’s ‘neoliberalising’ higher education (HE) sector. As HE undergoes a process of marketisation, and the teaching and research activities of academics are increasingly measured and scrutinised, the contemporary academy appears to be suffused with anxiety. Coupled with pressures facing all staff, 34% of academic employees are currently working on a fixed-term contract and so must contend with the multiple forms of uncertainty associated with their so-called ‘casualised’ positions. While anxiety is often perceived as an individualised affliction for which employees are encouraged to take personal responsibility, the article argues that it should be conceptualised in two ways: firstly, as a symptom of wider processes at work in the neoliberalising sector; and secondly, as a ‘tactic’ of what Isin [(2004). The neurotic citizen. Citizenship Studies, 8 (3), 217–235] refers to as ‘neuroliberal’ governance. The article concludes by proposing that the figure of the ‘neurotic academic’ is emblematic of the contradictions facing the contemporary academy.     

英国的“司徒雷登”——梅滕更与杭州广济医院

很多人都知道,近代史上与杭州关系最密切的美国人是司徒雷登,但很少有人了解,英国也有一位“司徒雷登”式的人物——梅滕更。梅滕更在杭州居住了近半个世纪,开拓和发展了杭州的西医事业,也就是浙医二院的前身——杭州广济医院,算得上半个杭州人。今年正好是浙医二院最早的前身直大方伯戒烟所建立140周年。1869年,英国圣公会派麦道斯医生在杭卅I直大方伯巷设立戒（鸦片）烟所。     

白求恩的情感世界

伟大的国际主义战士白求恩,为中国人民的抗日事业无私奉献、鞠躬尽瘁,广受敬仰。加拿大格雷文赫斯特的白求恩纪念馆建立起来后,人们才渐渐知道了他更多的事情。