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In response to Melanie Stefan‘s call for academics to write up their CV of Failures and in light of Johannes Haushofer‘s elegant entry, here is mine in all its “gories”. My CV of Failures [UPDATE… Read More »My CV of Failures

It’s just over a year since I published my first book, We Have Never Been Neoliberal, and so it seems as good a time as any to navel-gaze about my publishing experience. As you are… Read More »Failing at book publishing

This is largely a rather geeky post about my particular research interests, so apologies for that! I have been doing research on the Canadian “bioeconomy” over the last 2-3 years, trying to understand how the… Read More »Defining the “bioeconomy”

My short article from Discover Society has been reposted to the LSE Impact Blog: “Kean Birch reflects on a classroom exercise introducing students to the reach of market-driven actions in everyday life. He finds the exercise is also… Read More »Resposting on LSE Impact Blog: “How to think like a neoliberal”

I’ve been discussing the meaning of “quality” in academic research and writing a lot with my colleagues at the minute – both as part of formal discussions about changing tenure and promotion (T&P) criteria and… Read More »Academic quality

4S/EASST Conference, Barcelona, 31st August – 3rd September 2016 Open Track: Turning Things into Assets  CONVENORS  Kean Birch, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada Fabian Muniesa, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Mines ParisTech, France ABSTRACT… Read More »CfP 4S/EASST Conference Track: Turning things into assets

The Fourth Annual Workshop on the Changing Political Economy of Research and Innovation (CPERI) Producing and Experimenting with Publics in New Political Economies 28-29 June 2016 University of Liège, Belgium ORGANIZERS Dr Pierre Delvenne, University… Read More »Workshop CfP: Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation (CPERI)

We’re currently revising the tenure and promotion (T&P) criteria in my department, which has led me to ponder what it means to be a productive academic. On the one hand, I agree with some aspects… Read More »Academic productivity

NB: This proposal has now been accepted as an open track for next year’s 4S/EASST Conference.  See here for more information. 4S/EASST Conference, Barcelona, 31st August – 3rd September 2016 Track Proposal: Turning Things into… Read More »Track Proposal: 2016 4S/EASST Conference

AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco 2016 Paper Session: The Mont Pelerin Plague? Revisiting and Rethinking Neoliberalism  ORGANISERS Kean Birch (York University, Canada) Simon Springer (University of Victoria, Canada)  OUTLINE From its initial conceptualization in Mont Pelerin… Read More »CfP: AAG2016 The Mont Pelerin Plague? Revisiting and rethinking neoliberalism