Compliance and Resistance Within Neoliberal Academia
Biographical Stories, Collective Voices
Author(s)
Gair, Susan
Hager, Tamar
Herzog, Omri
Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Academic marketplace; Neoliberalism; Resistance Writing; Collective biographies; Feminist Methodologies; Autoethnography in higher education; Open AccessDOI
10.1007/978-3-030-66318-6ISBN
9783030663186, 9783030663186Publisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/booksPublication date and place
2021Imprint
Palgrave PivotClassification
Higher education, tertiary education
Education
Sociology
Gender studies, gender groups
Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality