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Struggling within and beyond the performative university : articulating activism and work in an “academia without walls”
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Pereira, Maria do Mar (2016) Struggling within and beyond the performative university : articulating activism and work in an “academia without walls”. Women's Studies International Forum, 54 . pp. 100-110. doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2015.06.008 ISSN 0277-5395.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2015.06.008
Abstract
In many regions, the past decade has been characterised by significant transformations of models of organisation and evaluation of academic work. These include processes of extensification, elasticisation and casualisation of academic labour, and the institutionalisation of regimes of “performativity” (Ball, 2003), enacted by apparatuses of measurement and auditing (Burrows, 2012). These interacting trends are having significant impacts not only on academic working conditions, but also on opportunities for sociopolitical intervention outside the academy. This article draws on an ethnography of Portuguese academia, and on debates about the “toxic” (Gill, 2010) and “careless” (Lynch, 2010) nature of contemporary academic cultures, to analyse the current (im)possibilities of articulating activism and academic work. I argue that in the present day “academia without walls” (Gill, 2010) this articulation is extremely difficult, but we must reject conceptualising that difficulty as an individual challenge, and reframe it as a structural problem requiring – urgently – collective responses.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology > Centre for the Study of Women and Gender |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Women's Studies International Forum | ||||||
Publisher: | Pergamon | ||||||
ISSN: | 0277-5395 | ||||||
Official Date: | January 2016 | ||||||
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Volume: | 54 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 100-110 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.wsif.2015.06.008 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
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