At Risk? The Humanities and the Future of Academic Publishing Sarah Kember.

At Risk? The Humanities and the Future of Academic

Publishing

Sarah Kember

‘the system that supports humanistic knowledge itself is at risk’

A Day in the Life of Janet Smart

iMedia. The Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials(Palgrave, forthcoming)

performance, openness, transparency, efficiency, accountability

The discourses, practices and techniques of finance – audits, metrics, citation indexes and so on – are said to govern academic life, but what of gender

and other differentials in this govern/ability?

There are no quick, or tech-only solutions to problems in academic publishing that, for me, are not ‘from’ – ‘to’ crises but entrenchments and extensions of instrumentalization, masculinization and marketization.

The do-it-all scholar-entrepreneur actually has very few options for communication if the place they are coming from is the research monograph/article and the place they are going to is the TED talk.