A Badiouian Enquiry Into Hope Labour: Affective and temporal disorientation in contingent academic careers during the Covid-19 event
Published online on October 18, 2025
Abstract
Organization Studies, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 589-612, April 2026.
Hope labour, defined as work undertaken in anticipation of realising an idealised academic career, functions as a core strategy for contingent academics, sustained by an affective attachment to a utopian future. Mobilising Badiou’s theoretical ideas of ...
Hope labour, defined as work undertaken in anticipation of realising an idealised academic career, functions as a core strategy for contingent academics, sustained by an affective attachment to a utopian future. Mobilising Badiou’s theoretical ideas of ...