Giving notice to employability
ephemera Volume 13 Number 4 (November 2013)
http://www.ephemerajournal.org/issue/giving-notice-employability
The neoliberal notion of employability has risen to prominence over the
past 20 years, having been positioned as the crux of national,
organizational and individual prosperity. To be employable, individuals
are increasingly called upon to be self-reliant; aligning themselves to
the conditions of an ostensibly fast-moving and precarious global
economy. This special issue of ephemera calls attention to the way this
current preoccupation with employability tethers questions of equality
and human development to the instrumental capitalist obsession with
growth and renewal. The 13 contributions to this issue ‘give notice’ to
employability as a colonizing attribute of human resourcefulness that
promotes marginalization, exploitation and stigmatization. By exploring
the type of ‘self’ employability demands, and analysing the consequences
of its required engagement, we hope employability will be both noticed
and acted upon.
Contents
Giving notice to employability
Ekaterina Chertkovskaya Peter Watt Stefan Tramer Sverre Spoelstra
Fighting against all odds: Entrepreneurship education as employability
training
Karin Berglund
Ethnicized un/employability: Problematized Others and the shaping of
advanced liberal subjects
Viktor Vesterberg
Constructing the employable immigrant: The uses of validation practices
in Sweden
Andreas Diedrich Alexander Styhre
Fight for your alienation: The fantasy of employability and the ironic
struggle for self-exploitation
Peter Bloom
The ‘sellable semblance’: Employability in the context of mental-illness
Hadar Elraz
Sorting people in and out: The plasticity of the categories of
employability, work capacity and disability as technologies of government
Christina Garsten Kerstin Jacobsson
Putting theory to work – a.k.a ‘if you don't like academia, why don't
you leave?’
Paul Taylor
On employability in higher education and its relation to quality
assurance: Between dis-identification and de-throning
Francisco Valenzuela
Does it ever stop kicking off everywhere?
Maria Vlachou
What work has made us become
Nathan Gerard
Satire, critique and the place of Critical Management Studies: Exploring
Zero Books
Sam Dallyn
Class action or class struggle?
Joanna Figiel
The limits of employability
Melanie Simms
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