Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Identities in transition - perspectives, trajectories and reformations, Jon Nixon (Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong)
Part I: Frameworks and perspectives
1. The academic condition: Unstable structures, ambivalent narratives, dislocated identities, Niilo Kauppi (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France)
2. Autonomisation and individualisation: Ideational shifts in European higher education, Tero Erkkila (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Ossi Piironen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
3. Academic identity formation: Reframing the long shadow of Europe, Terri Seddon (Monash University, Australia)
Part II: Academic trajectories
4. Swiss higher education: A particular showcase at the heart of the European landscape, Nicole Rege Colet (University of Strasbourg, France)
5. Academic identity in Slovakia: A personal comparative view, Stefan Benus (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia)
6. The Scholarship of academic entrepreneurship in 21st century Europe: A Swedish relief carved from personal experiences, Eva M. Brodin (Lund University, Sweden)
7. Predicaments of fusion and transformation: A journey from Georgia, Liana Beattie (Edge Hill University, UK)
8. Competitiveness, elitism and neoliberal performativity policy: The formation of a Russell Group academic identity, Linda Evans (University of Leeds, UK)
Part III: Formations and re-formations
90. The challenges of the French 'homo academicus': Modernization, identities and the sense of justice, Romuald Normand (University of Strasbourg, France)
10. High-flyers and underdogs: The polarisation of Finnish academic identities, Oili-Helena Ylijoki (University of Tampere, Finland) and Jani Ursin (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
11. The changing conditions of academic identity: The Portuguese open university, Darlinda Moreira (Universidade Aberta, Portugal), Luisa Lebres-Aires (Universidade Aberta, Portugal) and Susana Henriques (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)
12. Policy, profession and person: The formation of reflexive academic identities in an Irish Institute of Technology, Carol O'Byrne (Waterford Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland)
13. Regulations, economics and the sociocultural: Academic identity formation in Greek higher education, Antigoni Papadimitriou (University of Oslo, Norway)
Reflections: Academic identity and the changing European landscape, Linda Evans (University of Leeds, UK)
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