Travelling in time, between places, and jobs: exploring temporal dimensions of academics’ international trajectories
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Travelling in time, between places, and jobs : exploring temporal dimensions of academics’ international trajectories. / Spangler, Vera; Madsen, Lene Møller; Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine Olesen.
I: Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, 2024.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Travelling in time, between places, and jobs
T2 - exploring temporal dimensions of academics’ international trajectories
AU - Spangler, Vera
AU - Madsen, Lene Møller
AU - Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine Olesen
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Based on the assumption that mobility has both spatial and temporal dimensions, the aim of this paper is to bring forth the often-neglected temporal dimensions of international academic mobility. We explore how time and temporality plays a role in the decisions and lived lives of international academics by analysing their experiences and mobility trajectories. We do so by drawing on qualitative interviews with 21 international academics differing in age, nationality, and career level employed at three Danish universities. The analysis shows that for many of our participants, mobility had little to do with internationalisation of higher education rationales. Rather their mobility rationales were embedded in personal needs and wants, often related to securing permanence for the less privileged and related to experiences and adventure for the privileged. By unfolding the stories about which decisions, coincidence, and sacrifices are part of academic mobile life, we show how citizenship-based hierarchies lead to spatial and temporal inequalities. The paper concludes that for the international academics, places are positioned not only geographically but also temporally in hierarchical ways and that the individual mobility trajectories are differently entangled in a global-temporal orientation.
AB - Based on the assumption that mobility has both spatial and temporal dimensions, the aim of this paper is to bring forth the often-neglected temporal dimensions of international academic mobility. We explore how time and temporality plays a role in the decisions and lived lives of international academics by analysing their experiences and mobility trajectories. We do so by drawing on qualitative interviews with 21 international academics differing in age, nationality, and career level employed at three Danish universities. The analysis shows that for many of our participants, mobility had little to do with internationalisation of higher education rationales. Rather their mobility rationales were embedded in personal needs and wants, often related to securing permanence for the less privileged and related to experiences and adventure for the privileged. By unfolding the stories about which decisions, coincidence, and sacrifices are part of academic mobile life, we show how citizenship-based hierarchies lead to spatial and temporal inequalities. The paper concludes that for the international academics, places are positioned not only geographically but also temporally in hierarchical ways and that the individual mobility trajectories are differently entangled in a global-temporal orientation.
KW - Academic mobility
KW - Denmark
KW - internationalisation
KW - spatial and mobility theories
KW - temporalities
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85188449158&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/04353684.2024.2324049
DO - 10.1080/04353684.2024.2324049
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85188449158
JO - Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography
JF - Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography
SN - 0435-3684
ER -
ID: 387264906