Compliance and resistance within neoliberal academia : : biographical stories, collective voices / / Susan Gair, Tamar Hager, and Omri Herzog.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Cham, Switzerland : : Springer,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (138 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Setting the Scene: Research and Writing Against the Neoliberal Grain
  • From Universitas to Neoliberal Academia
  • Negotiating the Neoliberal Culture
  • Collaborative Autoethnographies
  • Writing in Dialogue
  • References
  • The Manufactured CV
  • Tamar's Story: Are We Huge Calculators?
  • Omri's Story: The One-Way Corridor
  • Susan's Story: A Self-defeating Cycle
  • References
  • Challenging Knowledge In/Accessibility
  • Susan's Story: Knowledge Kept in the Shadows
  • Omri's Story: Lost in Translation
  • Tamar's Story: "You will have a marketing problem"
  • References
  • Tackling Difference in a Neoliberal Classroom
  • Susan's Story: Blaming the Messenger
  • Omri's Story: "Stop telling me how screwed up I am!"
  • Tamar's Story: The Interloper
  • References
  • Closing Thoughts: Academic Hazards and Opportunities
  • Emotional Labour
  • Disappearing Campus Life
  • The University of the Students and the Masters
  • References
  • References.