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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