Alex Posecznick
Biographic Data
| ID | 211464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Posecznick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Posecznick |
| SIGNATURE | POSECZNICK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Selling Hope and College
Posecznick documents what it takes to keep a "mediocre" college open and running, and the struggles, tensions, and battles that members of the community tangle with daily as they carefully walk the line between empowering marginalized students and exploiting them.
On theorising and humanising academic complicity in the neoliberal university
Most academics that I know take it for granted that higher education in capitalist countries has become deeply corporatised over the last thirty years. But as an undergraduate student in the 1990s, dreaming of joining the ranks of the professoriate, the institutional and structural changes that were transforming the university were largely hidden from my view. Looking back, I had no idea how such trends might be impacting the men and women who ex…
Constructing legitimacy in a non-selective, American college
Selecting, gaining access to and attending college (or university) in the United States involve markers of legitimacy and prestige as understood through symbolic capital. An entire complex of fine differentiations operate to distinguish such capital in both students and the institutions they attend. Drawing on works of Bourdieu, this article describes the ways that these distinctions were made about symbolic capital and how legitimacy was constru…
What's in a Name? Negotiating and Wielding Dangerous Knowledge in Anthropology
field notes, circulation, anonymity, ethnographic representation, education, research methods
Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnetic Strips
Constructing legitimacy in a non-selective, American college
Selecting, gaining access to and attending college (or university) in the United States involve markers of legitimacy and prestige as understood through symbolic capital. An entire complex of fine differentiations operate to distinguish such capital in both students and the institutions they attend. Drawing on works of Bourdieu, this article describes the ways that these distinctions were made about symbolic capital and how legitimacy was constru…
What's in a Name? Negotiating and Wielding Dangerous Knowledge in Anthropology
field notes, circulation, anonymity, ethnographic representation, education, research methods
Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnetic Strips
What's in a Name? Negotiating and Wielding Dangerous Knowledge in Anthropology
field notes, circulation, anonymity, ethnographic representation, education, research methods
Constructing legitimacy in a non-selective, American college
Selecting, gaining access to and attending college (or university) in the United States involve markers of legitimacy and prestige as understood through symbolic capital. An entire complex of fine differentiations operate to distinguish such capital in both students and the institutions they attend. Drawing on works of Bourdieu, this article describes the ways that these distinctions were made about symbolic capital and how legitimacy was constru…
On theorising and humanising academic complicity in the neoliberal university
Most academics that I know take it for granted that higher education in capitalist countries has become deeply corporatised over the last thirty years. But as an undergraduate student in the 1990s, dreaming of joining the ranks of the professoriate, the institutional and structural changes that were transforming the university were largely hidden from my view. Looking back, I had no idea how such trends might be impacting the men and women who ex…
Selling Hope and College
Posecznick documents what it takes to keep a "mediocre" college open and running, and the struggles, tensions, and battles that members of the community tangle with daily as they carefully walk the line between empowering marginalized students and exploiting them.
Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Academic freedom (1 work)