Rhythms of academic mobility

Abstract

Academic mobility has been discursively circulated in at least two ways: as the cause of transnational identity capital and as the resource for knowledge transfer worldwide. Instead of a preoccupation with neoliberalist and human capital accounts, this article offers a rhythmic perspective and analysis that shifts the matter of academic mobility away from a purely discursive frame of reference. It explores the rhythms of a mobile and migrant academic in an autoethnographic and everyday account of human body encounters. It engages with the unintended realities of the body as the border, especially when it comes to ethnicity and place of origin.

Keywords:

• Academic mobility
• rhythmanalysis
• non-EU/U.K. migrant
• academic migrant
• corporeality