Gender Insurgency and Neoliberal Reform: The Academy Twice Transformed?

Autor/in	Johnson, Richard
Titel	Gender Insurgency and Neoliberal Reform: The Academy Twice Transformed?
Quelle	In: Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 3 (2010) 2, S.73-91 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1755-2273
DOI	10.3167/latiss.2010.030205
Schlagwörter	Social Theories; Political Attitudes; Economic Development; Educational Change; Universities; Feminism; Democracy; Gender Discrimination; Autobiographies; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (Birmingham); United Kingdom (Cambridge); United Kingdom (Nottingham) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesellschaftstheorie; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Bildungsreform; University; Universität; Feminismus; Demokratie; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Ausland
Abstract	In this paper I adopt an auto/biographical method and a critique of abstract social theories to explore how the neoliberal restructuring of universities interacts with the gender order. Many universities are being remoulded as businesses for other businesses, with profound effects on internal relations, the subjectivities of academics and students, and practices of education and scholarship. Yet I doubt if we can understand this, nor resist the deep corruption, through grasping neoliberalism's dynamics alone. A longer memory and a more concrete analysis are needed. Today's intense individualisation impacts on pre-existing social relations, which inflect it unpredictably. From my own experience, I evoke the baseline of an older academy, gender-segregated, explicitly patriarchal and privileged in class and ethnic terms. I stress the feminist and democratic gains of the 1960s and 1970s. I sketch the (neoliberal) strategies that undermine or redirect them. I write this, hoping that the next episode can be written differently. (Contains 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10