The impact of impact
The impact of impact
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影响的影响
DOI：
10.4000/etnografica.3652
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发表时间：
2014
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影响因子：
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通讯作者：
Roger Burrows
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作者：
C. Knowles;Roger Burrows
本文探讨了在英国大学2014年的卓越研究框架(REF)中正式确立的对“影响”的新关注--被理解为超越学术的“影响”--如何重塑产生当代人类学和社会学的工作条件和实践，以及最终这些学科能够成为什么。它表明，这种影响，与我们可能认为的高等教育“度量化”的更广泛变化相一致，重塑了大学和政府之间的关系，给这些学科带来了新的早熟文化。这篇论文思考了Impact--现在主导大学的度量组合的一个新成员--如何塑造我们可以做的研究的种类，以及我们做研究的条件。它注意到竞争加剧，学科范围缩小，并强调智力劳动的可见性和绩效。
This paper explores ways in which the new preoccupation with “impact” – understood as “influence” beyond the academy – formalised in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) in UK universities reshapes the working conditions and practices in which contemporary anthropology and sociology are produced and, ultimately, what these disciplines are able to be. It suggests that impact, in concert with broader changes in, what we might think of as, the “metricization” of higher education, reshapes the relationship between universities and government bringing new cultures of precarity to these disciplines. This paper ruminates on how impact – a new addition to the metric assemblages that now dominate universities – shapes the kinds of research we can do, as well as the conditions in which we do it. It notes the deepening competition, the narrowing of disciplines, and the emphasis on the visibility and performance of intellectual labour.