Between qualification, self-optimisation and precarisation: In view of the current working conditions in science and academia, academics often shimmy from one temporary employment contract to the next. Under precarious working conditions, they nevertheless carry out a large part of the academic work in research and teaching. "This directly affects the production of knowledge at our universities," says Stefanie Leinfellner, research assistant at the Institute of Human Sciences at Paderborn University and co-editor of the newly published book on "Conditions of Knowledge Production". The numerous contributions in the volume examine the conditions of knowledge production from theoretical, historical, political and empirical perspectives. "Special attention or the focus of the analyses," says Leinfellner, "lies on inequality-theoretical perspectives from education and the social sciences as well as those of neighbouring disciplinary fields." The publication thus also contributes to previous efforts to advocate for better working conditions at universities and in science.
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