Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University

Feminist Flights, Fights and Failures

Yvette Taylor editor Kinneret Lahad editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:4th Jun '19

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University cover

This book offers a contemporary account of what it means to inhabit academia as a privilege, risk, entitlement or a failure. Drawing on international perspectives from a range of academic disciplines, it asks whether feminist spaces can offer freedom or flight from the corporatized and commercialized neoliberal university. How are feminist voices felt, heard, received, silenced, and masked? What is it to be a feminist academic in the neoliberal university? How are expectations, entitlements and burdens felt in inhabiting feminist positions and what of 'bad feeling' or 'unhappiness' amongst feminists? The volume consider these issues from across the career course, including from 'early career' and senior established scholars, as these diverse categories are themselves entangled in academic structures, sentiments and subjectivities; they are solidified in, for example, entry and promotion schemes as well as funding calls, and they ask us to identify in particular stages of 'being' or 'becoming' academic, while arguably denying the possibility of ever arriving. It will be essential reading for students and researchers in the areas of Education, Sociology, and Gender Studies.

ISBN: 9783319877518

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 506g

368 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018