Compliance and Resistance Within Neoliberal Academia Biographical Stories, Collective Voices

• Main Author: Gair, Susan (auth)
• Other Authors: Hager, Tamar (auth), Herzog, Omri (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2021
• Subjects: Higher & further education, tertiary education; Education; Sociology; Gender studies, gender groups; The self, ego, identity, personality; Academic marketplace; Neoliberalism; Resistance Writing; Collective biographies; Feminist Methodologies; Autoethnography in higher education; Open Access
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Summary

This open access book reflects on academic life under a neoliberal regime. Through collaborative autoethnographies, the authors share stories about the everyday experiences, dilemmas and conflicts of three academics: the struggle for promotion, teaching's challenges, the race to publish, confronting bureaucracy and institutional politics, as well as the resulting emotional stress. These stories reveal the impact of neoliberal culture on ideological, economic, social, collegial, and emotional integrity which are integral to academics' lives today. But along with the challenges, the authors present their vision of hope, and transformation through academic solidarity - and for the silenced voices to be heard, inside academia and beyond it. This is an open access book.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (134 p.)

ISBN

978-3-030-66318-6
9783030663186

Access

Open Access