Mariya Ivancheva
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 134375 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mariya Ivancheva |
| PRENOMES | Mariya |
| SOBRENOME | Ivancheva |
| ASSINATURA | IVANCHEVA M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4066-4074 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Coerced Voluntarism
Amid a global expansion of mental health services and intensifying pressures on graduate labour markets, this article examines the growing dependence of service providers on unpaid trainee-therapist labour. The article expands sociological debates on precarity, welfare restructuring and labour exploitation by conceptualising trainee therapists’ unpaid work as a distinct regime of coerced voluntarism. In doing so, it reframes professional training…
Technologies of Disempowerment
This paper explores the effect of the digitalisation of higher education on the transformation of academic labour and the pedagogy of care. Drawing on 17 focus groups involving 53 academics across South African and UK universities, the study asks how digital technologies introduced in the name of widening access and pedagogical innovation are experienced by academics in their everyday life within two distinct university systems. The paper identif…
Intersectionality and precarious subjectivities
This Special Issue draws on intersectionality to explore how interlocking forms of discrimination and marginalisation culminate to produce, structure and sustain precarious subjectivities within and beyond neoliberal workplaces, and how subjects cope with or resist them. This collection brings together studies across diverse time-space configurations and social groups/labouring bodies – queer NGO activists in China, middle-class women writers dur…
Creolizing the Modern
The double-bind of freedom and economic security
EdTech-mediated outsourcing and casualisation of academic labour
Located at the intersection of scholarship on critical higher education (HE), the casualisation of the academic workforce and studies of digitalisation and online platforms in Higher Education (HE), this article examines the impact of online programme management companies (OPMs) on academic labour. OPMs partner with universities to provide core teaching functions while relying on the labour of increasingly casualised, often outsourced academics. …
Breaking the impasse
Since 2022, Britain has been in the midst of its largest strike wave in decades, with protracted industrial action across much of the public sector, as well as in industries such as transport.In the twelve months to June 2023, four million working days were lost to labour disputes, a dramatic shift from 2018, when the corresponding figure was just 272 000, the sixth-lowest annual total since records began in 1891.Perhaps surprisingly, however, tw…
The Alternative University
Forum
It has been a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine started. It is clear that the impact of this war goes far beyond Ukraine. We already know that it will have long-lasting consequences for the regional and global economy, in particular for energy and food security. The war is reshuffling old geo-political arrangements and alliances. It is also shaping the political landscapes of European states: international relations, inflation and migrat…
Unbundling and higher education curriculum
The focus of this paper is on the contestations and dilemmas emergent in the higher education curriculum in a context of increasing processes of unbundling, digitisation and marketisation. The paper explores the notion of contestation through the theoretical lens of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory. It points to illustrative examples of this contestation from empirical data drawn from stakeholder research in South African higher education. The…
Radical higher education alternatives
The present interview organized by the Greek researcher Natalia-Rozalia Avlona and the Brazilian researcher Felipe Ziotti Narita has been reworked and updated from its first publication in a special issue of Brazilian journal CIMEAC, devoted to the experiences of popular education in Latin America in the 2010s. Ivancheva was invited by the authors to discuss the contemporary higher education scenario and radical popular experiments in Latin Ameri…
Putting the university to work
This paper considers how the formal and real subsumption of academic labour in UK higher education are exposed and exacerbated by the move towards online teaching, assessment and communication. These processes have been expedited by the COVID‐19 pandemic outbreak and attention is drawn to the technology‐driven organisational and operational innovations that are transforming academic divisions of labour and labour processes. These changes, particu…
Roundtable discussion
*
The care ceiling in higher education
This study examines the impact of managerialist policies on care relations in higher education. It is based on a study of 10 higher education institutions in Ireland. The paper shows that a care-free worker model is ingrained in systems of performance appraisal, especially for academics in universities, and increasingly in the Institutes of Technology, although it also impacts on support staff in other professions and occupations. It assumes a li…
Conflicting logics of online higher education
The advent of massive open online courses and online degrees offered via digital platforms has occurred in a climate of austerity. Public universities worldwide face challenges to expand their educational reach, while competing in international rankings, raising fees and generating third-stream income. Online forms of unbundled provision offering smaller flexible low-cost curricular units have promised to disrupt this system. Yet do these forms c…
Experiências populares radicais, precariedade, gênero e covid-19 no ensino superior
MARIYA IVANCHEVA é professora de estudos em ensino superior na Universidade de Liverpool (Inglaterra). Seus trabalhos analisam o papel da universidade em processos de mudança social, combinando métodos qualitativos e teoria social para discutir o impacto das tecnologias digitais no trabalho acadêmico, precariedade, gênero e mercantilização das instituições acadêmicas. Como socióloga e antropóloga, Ivancheva estudou a Universidade Bolivariana da V…
Paternalistic internationalism and (de)colonial practices of Cold War higher education exchange
This article presents the findings of an archival study on the Cold War higher education (HE) exchange between Bulgaria and Cuba and Angola carried out at the Open Society Archive. Although research on the internationalization of HE mostly focuses on the introduction of new managerial governance and global rankings, scholars studying socialist countries mostly address the intricacies of student exchange. Focusing on policy transfer and expert exc…
Precarity, gender and care in the neoliberal academy
This article examines the rise in precarious academic employment in Ireland as an outcome of the higher education restructuring following OECD (Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development), government initiatives and post‐crisis austerity. Presenting the narratives of academic women at different career stages, we claim that a focus on care sheds new light on the debate on precarity. A more complete understanding of precarity should tak…
Eyes wide shut
This article presents the results of a collaborative ethnographic inquiry in contemporary Sofia and Caracas. Combining historical research and ethnography, we compare the ways in which a former and a current left-wing regime treat urban squatting. In both cities, squatters tend to be poor families escaping homelessness. In Sofia, "squatters"-usually of Roma origin-inhabit unregulated spaces deemed illegal after 1989. In Caracas, homeless families…
The Discreet Charm of University Autonomy
The recent history of Venezuela's student movements illustrates the paradox of academic autonomy. The student left used autonomy to resist repression during Venezuela's liberal democracy (1958). Yet, after 1998, the former supporters of the parties which had violated that autonomy started to capitalise on it in order to block the progressive reforms. The Bolivarian government's decision not to interfere with autonomous universities, but to create…
Between Permanent Revolution and Permanent Liminality
After traditional academics mobilized university autonomy against government intervention and supported the coup d'état against Hugo Chávez, his government created a parallel system of public universities. María Egilda Castellano headed the effort to extend university access to poor Venezuelans. The events of her terms as vice minister of education (1999-2002) and rector of the Bolivarian University (2003-2004) and her subsequent career show the …
Rethinking Euro-anthropology
Academic freedom and the commercialisation of universities
This paper explores the cultural and organisational dimensions of academic life that lay the foundations for academic freedom. We briefly review the relationship between university autonomy and academic freedom, the relationship between ethics and freedom and the impact of increased commercialisation on scholarly independence, particularly how the increasing casualization of employment limits the freedom of academics to teach critically and publi…
The Bolivarian University of Venezuela
This article discusses paradoxes in the emergent global field of higher education as reflected in an alternative model of the university – the Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV) and the related higher education policy, Misión Sucre. With its credo in the applied social sciences, its commitment to popular pedagogy and its dependence on extensive fieldwork with communities, UBV offers an alternative model of science and research at the servic…
Protest Beyond Borders
The protest movements that followed the Second World War have recently become the object of study for various disciplines; however, the exchange of ideas between research fields, and comparative research in general, is lacking. An international and interdisciplinary dialogue is vital to not only describe the similarities and differences between the single national movements but also to evaluate how they contributed to the formation and evolution …
Precarity, gender and care in the neoliberal academy
This article examines the rise in precarious academic employment in Ireland as an outcome of the higher education restructuring following OECD (Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development), government initiatives and post‐crisis austerity. Presenting the narratives of academic women at different career stages, we claim that a focus on care sheds new light on the debate on precarity. A more complete understanding of precarity should tak…
Academic freedom and the commercialisation of universities
This paper explores the cultural and organisational dimensions of academic life that lay the foundations for academic freedom. We briefly review the relationship between university autonomy and academic freedom, the relationship between ethics and freedom and the impact of increased commercialisation on scholarly independence, particularly how the increasing casualization of employment limits the freedom of academics to teach critically and publi…
Forum
It has been a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine started. It is clear that the impact of this war goes far beyond Ukraine. We already know that it will have long-lasting consequences for the regional and global economy, in particular for energy and food security. The war is reshuffling old geo-political arrangements and alliances. It is also shaping the political landscapes of European states: international relations, inflation and migrat…
The Alternative University
Putting the university to work
This paper considers how the formal and real subsumption of academic labour in UK higher education are exposed and exacerbated by the move towards online teaching, assessment and communication. These processes have been expedited by the COVID‐19 pandemic outbreak and attention is drawn to the technology‐driven organisational and operational innovations that are transforming academic divisions of labour and labour processes. These changes, particu…
Conflicting logics of online higher education
The advent of massive open online courses and online degrees offered via digital platforms has occurred in a climate of austerity. Public universities worldwide face challenges to expand their educational reach, while competing in international rankings, raising fees and generating third-stream income. Online forms of unbundled provision offering smaller flexible low-cost curricular units have promised to disrupt this system. Yet do these forms c…
Rethinking Euro-anthropology
Strawberry fields forever
This article is based on fieldwork conducted among Romanian and Bulgarian students working under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme in the UK. It shows how a public discourse on the benefits of and for immigrant seasonal workers silences the voices of these workers. It also discusses how a hidden transcript of the student workers shows they are deeply frustrated about their exploitation in terms of wages, living conditions, and the fact tha…
The Discreet Charm of University Autonomy
The recent history of Venezuela's student movements illustrates the paradox of academic autonomy. The student left used autonomy to resist repression during Venezuela's liberal democracy (1958). Yet, after 1998, the former supporters of the parties which had violated that autonomy started to capitalise on it in order to block the progressive reforms. The Bolivarian government's decision not to interfere with autonomous universities, but to create…
The double-bind of freedom and economic security
Paternalistic internationalism and (de)colonial practices of Cold War higher education exchange
This article presents the findings of an archival study on the Cold War higher education (HE) exchange between Bulgaria and Cuba and Angola carried out at the Open Society Archive. Although research on the internationalization of HE mostly focuses on the introduction of new managerial governance and global rankings, scholars studying socialist countries mostly address the intricacies of student exchange. Focusing on policy transfer and expert exc…
Eyes wide shut
This article presents the results of a collaborative ethnographic inquiry in contemporary Sofia and Caracas. Combining historical research and ethnography, we compare the ways in which a former and a current left-wing regime treat urban squatting. In both cities, squatters tend to be poor families escaping homelessness. In Sofia, "squatters"-usually of Roma origin-inhabit unregulated spaces deemed illegal after 1989. In Caracas, homeless families…
Between Permanent Revolution and Permanent Liminality
After traditional academics mobilized university autonomy against government intervention and supported the coup d'état against Hugo Chávez, his government created a parallel system of public universities. María Egilda Castellano headed the effort to extend university access to poor Venezuelans. The events of her terms as vice minister of education (1999-2002) and rector of the Bolivarian University (2003-2004) and her subsequent career show the …
Strawberry fields forever
This article is based on fieldwork conducted among Romanian and Bulgarian students working under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme in the UK. It shows how a public discourse on the benefits of and for immigrant seasonal workers silences the voices of these workers. It also discusses how a hidden transcript of the student workers shows they are deeply frustrated about their exploitation in terms of wages, living conditions, and the fact tha…
Protest Beyond Borders
The protest movements that followed the Second World War have recently become the object of study for various disciplines; however, the exchange of ideas between research fields, and comparative research in general, is lacking. An international and interdisciplinary dialogue is vital to not only describe the similarities and differences between the single national movements but also to evaluate how they contributed to the formation and evolution …
The Bolivarian University of Venezuela
This article discusses paradoxes in the emergent global field of higher education as reflected in an alternative model of the university – the Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV) and the related higher education policy, Misión Sucre. With its credo in the applied social sciences, its commitment to popular pedagogy and its dependence on extensive fieldwork with communities, UBV offers an alternative model of science and research at the servic…
Academic freedom and the commercialisation of universities
This paper explores the cultural and organisational dimensions of academic life that lay the foundations for academic freedom. We briefly review the relationship between university autonomy and academic freedom, the relationship between ethics and freedom and the impact of increased commercialisation on scholarly independence, particularly how the increasing casualization of employment limits the freedom of academics to teach critically and publi…
Rethinking Euro-anthropology
The Discreet Charm of University Autonomy
The recent history of Venezuela's student movements illustrates the paradox of academic autonomy. The student left used autonomy to resist repression during Venezuela's liberal democracy (1958). Yet, after 1998, the former supporters of the parties which had violated that autonomy started to capitalise on it in order to block the progressive reforms. The Bolivarian government's decision not to interfere with autonomous universities, but to create…
Between Permanent Revolution and Permanent Liminality
After traditional academics mobilized university autonomy against government intervention and supported the coup d'état against Hugo Chávez, his government created a parallel system of public universities. María Egilda Castellano headed the effort to extend university access to poor Venezuelans. The events of her terms as vice minister of education (1999-2002) and rector of the Bolivarian University (2003-2004) and her subsequent career show the …
Paternalistic internationalism and (de)colonial practices of Cold War higher education exchange
This article presents the findings of an archival study on the Cold War higher education (HE) exchange between Bulgaria and Cuba and Angola carried out at the Open Society Archive. Although research on the internationalization of HE mostly focuses on the introduction of new managerial governance and global rankings, scholars studying socialist countries mostly address the intricacies of student exchange. Focusing on policy transfer and expert exc…
Precarity, gender and care in the neoliberal academy
This article examines the rise in precarious academic employment in Ireland as an outcome of the higher education restructuring following OECD (Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development), government initiatives and post‐crisis austerity. Presenting the narratives of academic women at different career stages, we claim that a focus on care sheds new light on the debate on precarity. A more complete understanding of precarity should tak…
Eyes wide shut
This article presents the results of a collaborative ethnographic inquiry in contemporary Sofia and Caracas. Combining historical research and ethnography, we compare the ways in which a former and a current left-wing regime treat urban squatting. In both cities, squatters tend to be poor families escaping homelessness. In Sofia, "squatters"-usually of Roma origin-inhabit unregulated spaces deemed illegal after 1989. In Caracas, homeless families…
Roundtable discussion
*
The care ceiling in higher education
This study examines the impact of managerialist policies on care relations in higher education. It is based on a study of 10 higher education institutions in Ireland. The paper shows that a care-free worker model is ingrained in systems of performance appraisal, especially for academics in universities, and increasingly in the Institutes of Technology, although it also impacts on support staff in other professions and occupations. It assumes a li…
Conflicting logics of online higher education
The advent of massive open online courses and online degrees offered via digital platforms has occurred in a climate of austerity. Public universities worldwide face challenges to expand their educational reach, while competing in international rankings, raising fees and generating third-stream income. Online forms of unbundled provision offering smaller flexible low-cost curricular units have promised to disrupt this system. Yet do these forms c…
Experiências populares radicais, precariedade, gênero e covid-19 no ensino superior
MARIYA IVANCHEVA é professora de estudos em ensino superior na Universidade de Liverpool (Inglaterra). Seus trabalhos analisam o papel da universidade em processos de mudança social, combinando métodos qualitativos e teoria social para discutir o impacto das tecnologias digitais no trabalho acadêmico, precariedade, gênero e mercantilização das instituições acadêmicas. Como socióloga e antropóloga, Ivancheva estudou a Universidade Bolivariana da V…
Unbundling and higher education curriculum
The focus of this paper is on the contestations and dilemmas emergent in the higher education curriculum in a context of increasing processes of unbundling, digitisation and marketisation. The paper explores the notion of contestation through the theoretical lens of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory. It points to illustrative examples of this contestation from empirical data drawn from stakeholder research in South African higher education. The…
Radical higher education alternatives
The present interview organized by the Greek researcher Natalia-Rozalia Avlona and the Brazilian researcher Felipe Ziotti Narita has been reworked and updated from its first publication in a special issue of Brazilian journal CIMEAC, devoted to the experiences of popular education in Latin America in the 2010s. Ivancheva was invited by the authors to discuss the contemporary higher education scenario and radical popular experiments in Latin Ameri…
Putting the university to work
This paper considers how the formal and real subsumption of academic labour in UK higher education are exposed and exacerbated by the move towards online teaching, assessment and communication. These processes have been expedited by the COVID‐19 pandemic outbreak and attention is drawn to the technology‐driven organisational and operational innovations that are transforming academic divisions of labour and labour processes. These changes, particu…
Breaking the impasse
Since 2022, Britain has been in the midst of its largest strike wave in decades, with protracted industrial action across much of the public sector, as well as in industries such as transport.In the twelve months to June 2023, four million working days were lost to labour disputes, a dramatic shift from 2018, when the corresponding figure was just 272 000, the sixth-lowest annual total since records began in 1891.Perhaps surprisingly, however, tw…
The Alternative University
Forum
It has been a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine started. It is clear that the impact of this war goes far beyond Ukraine. We already know that it will have long-lasting consequences for the regional and global economy, in particular for energy and food security. The war is reshuffling old geo-political arrangements and alliances. It is also shaping the political landscapes of European states: international relations, inflation and migrat…
EdTech-mediated outsourcing and casualisation of academic labour
Located at the intersection of scholarship on critical higher education (HE), the casualisation of the academic workforce and studies of digitalisation and online platforms in Higher Education (HE), this article examines the impact of online programme management companies (OPMs) on academic labour. OPMs partner with universities to provide core teaching functions while relying on the labour of increasingly casualised, often outsourced academics. …
Intersectionality and precarious subjectivities
This Special Issue draws on intersectionality to explore how interlocking forms of discrimination and marginalisation culminate to produce, structure and sustain precarious subjectivities within and beyond neoliberal workplaces, and how subjects cope with or resist them. This collection brings together studies across diverse time-space configurations and social groups/labouring bodies – queer NGO activists in China, middle-class women writers dur…
Creolizing the Modern
The double-bind of freedom and economic security
Coerced Voluntarism
Amid a global expansion of mental health services and intensifying pressures on graduate labour markets, this article examines the growing dependence of service providers on unpaid trainee-therapist labour. The article expands sociological debates on precarity, welfare restructuring and labour exploitation by conceptualising trainee therapists’ unpaid work as a distinct regime of coerced voluntarism. In doing so, it reframes professional training…
Political science (18 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Economics (11 obras) · Higher education (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Political economy (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 obras) · Higher Education Governance and Development (5 obras)