Below you'll find the list of references I received, on the flexibilization of academic labor and precarity in the university. 

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Source list on the Flexibilization of Academic Labor and Precarity in the University

Ball, Stephen J. 2012. “Performativity, Commodification and Commitment: An I-Spy Guide to the Neoliberal University.” British Journal of Educational Studies 60(1):17–28.

Bauder, Harald. 2005. “The Segmentation of Academic Labour: A Canadian Example.” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 4 (2): 228–39. http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/735

Bauder, Harald. 2015. “The International Mobility of Academics: A Labour Market Perspective.” International Migration 53 (1): 83–96. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2435.2012.00783.x. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2012.00783.x/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=

Berg, Lawrence D. 2012. “Knowledge Enclosure, Accumulation by Dispossession, and the Academic Publishing Industry.” Political Geography 31(5):260–62.

Berg, Lawrence D., Edward H. Huijbens, and Henrik Gutzon Larsen. 2016. “Producing Anxiety in the Neoliberal University.” The Canadian Geographer Forthcoming.

Berg, Maggie and Barbara Seeber. 2016. The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Brem-Wilson, Josh. 2014. “From ‘here’ to ‘there’: Social Movements, the Academy, and Solidarity Research.” Socialist Studies / Études socialistes 10(1):111–32.

Gaffikin, Frank and David C. Perry. 2009. “Discourses and Strategic Visions: The U.S. Research University as an Institutional Manifestation of Neoliberalism in a Global Era.” American Educational Research Journal 46(1):115–44.

Gill, Rosalind. 2014. “Academics, Cultural Workers and Critical Labour Studies.” Journal of Cultural Economy 7(1):12–30.

Graduate Journal of Social Science, Volume 8, Issue 1: Interdisciplinarity and the New University. 2016. Accessed July 18. http://gjss.org/?q=issues/08/01. http://gjss.org/?q=issues/08/01

Hall, Tim. 2014. “Making Their Own Futures? Research Change and Diversity amongst Contemporary British Human Geographers.” The Geographical Journal 180 (1): 39–51. doi:10.1111/geoj.12002. (Also/especially the bibliography.)  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geoj.12002/abstract

Hartman, Yvonne and Sandy Darab. 2012. “A Call for Slow Scholarship: A Case Study on the Intensification of Academic Life and Its Implications for Pedagogy.” Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 34(1–2):49–60.

Kauppinen, Ilkka. 2012. “Towards Transnational Academic Capitalism.” Higher Education 64(4):543–56.

Lorenz, Chris. 2014. “On Fixing the Facts. The Rise of Neo-Liberalism, the Metrification of ‘quality’ and the Fall of the Professions.” Moving the Social. Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements 51(4):5–27.

Lynch, Kathleen and Mariya P. Ivancheva. 2015. “Academic Freedom and the Commercialisation of Universities: A Critical Ethical Analysis.” Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 15(1):1–15.

Mauro J. Caraccioli and Aida A. Hozic, (2015) "Reflexivity @ Disney U: 11 Theses on Living in IR". InReflexivity and International Relations: Positionality, Practice, and Critique, edited by B.J. Steele and J. Amoureux, pp. 142-159. New York: Routledge.

Nash, Jennifer C., and Emily A. Owens. 2016. “Introduction: Institutional Feelings: Practicing Women’s Studies in the Corporate University.” Feminist Formations 27 (3): vii–xi. doi:10.1353/ff.2016.0004. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/32987

Olssen, Mark and Michael A. Peters. 2005. “Neoliberalism, Higher Education and the Knowledge Economy: From the Free Market to Knowledge Capitalism.” Journal of Education Policy 20(3):313–45.

Peake, Linda J., and Beverley Mullings. 2016. “Critical Reflections on Mental and Emotional Distress in the Academy.” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 15 (2): 253–84.

Peters, Kimberley, and Jennifer Turner. 2014. “Fixed-Term and Temporary: Teaching Fellows, Tactics, and the Negotiation of Contingent Labour in the UK Higher Education System.” Environment and Planning A 46 (10): 2317–31. doi:10.1068/a46294. http://epn.sagepub.com/content/46/10/2317

Polster, Claire and Janice Newson. 2015. A Penny for Your Thoughts: How Corporatization Devalues Teaching, Research, and Public Service in Canada’s Universities. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

“Rede Investigadores Contra a Precariedade Científica.” 2016. Rede Investigadores Contra a Precariedade Científica. Accessed July 18. https://redeinvestigadores.wordpress.com/. 

Savigny, Heather. 2013. “The (Political) Idea of a University: Political Science and Neoliberalism in English Higher Education.” European Political Science 12(4):432–39.

Slaughter, Sheila and Larry L. Leslie. 1997. Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies, and the Entrepreneurial University. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

The Autonomous Geographies Collective. 2010. “Beyond Scholar Activism: Making Strategic Interventions inside and Outside the Neoliberal University.” ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 9(2):245–74.

Tyfield, David. 2012. “A Cultural Political Economy of Research and Innovation in an Age of Crisis.” Minerva 50(2):149–67.