Lack of tenure at the National University of Costa Rica: its effects on the workplace and the relationship professor-university

Abstract

This research analyzes the implications of the condition of “interinazgo” in
the relationship between the work experiences of an interim academic and
administrative population of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty
of Philosophy and Letters of the National University (UNA), which allows
to know the sense of affiliation and belonging with the university, cooperation,
and communication, among other aspects, of people who work in the
institution. This article is a product of the advances of the research called
“Implications of the condition of “interinazgo” in the subjectivity and related
relations of the working population of the National University”, which
is executed from the Political Threshold Program, of the Institute of Social
Studies in Population of the UNA. At the methodological level, eight semistructured
interviews were conducted on the perceptions of each functionary;
the analysis of the results is based on the theory of the Inverted Cone Scheme
elaborated by Dr. Enrique Pichón Rivière, Social Psychologist. With the information
collected, aspects related to the management of power, situations
of structural violence and institutional suffering that are experienced in the
UNA are evidenced. Among the main findings obtained, it stands out that the
condition of “interinazgo” has implications in the daily life of the persons
interviewed reflected in each of the vectors of the inverted cone, such as the
feeling of belonging to the University, the commitment to their work and the
over-demand in order to obtain the property (permanent hiring), among other
aspects of reality, faced by teachers and administrators called “non-owners”.