Dr. Aslı Vatansever contributes chapter to edited volume The Future of Cross-Border Academic Mobilities and Immobilities: Power, Knowledge and Agency

Dr. Aslı Vatansever has contributed a chapter to the new edited volume The Future of Cross-Border Academic Mobilities and Immobilities: Power, Knowledge and Agency, published by Bloomsbury Academic. The book is edited by Aline Courtois, Simon Marginson, Catherine Montgomery and Ravinder Sidhu.

In her chapter, Dr. Vatansever explores academic mobility from a political economy perspective and frames the change in academic employment practices as part of a drastic transformation of the overall academic career structure, proceeding along three vectors: complexification of qualification systems and de-standardization of career progression at the postdoc level (randomization), destabilization of the supply-demand-balance in academic labor markets (precarization), and increased geographic and institutional mobility of academic workforce (nomadization). Focusing on nomadization, Vatansever's chapter explains precarious mobility as a method of labor coercion and discusses the asymmetric logic of valorization that different mobilities are subjected to.

The chapter can be read online here.

Post Date: 01-02-2026