'Leadership Is a Sacred Matter': Women Leaders Contesting and Contextualising Neoliberal Meritocracy in the Indonesian Academia

Autor/inn/en	Wijaya Mulya, Teguh; Sakhiyya, Zulfa
Titel	'Leadership Is a Sacred Matter': Women Leaders Contesting and Contextualising Neoliberal Meritocracy in the Indonesian Academia
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 33 (2021) 7, S.930-945 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wijaya Mulya, Teguh) ORCID (Sakhiyya, Zulfa)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2020.1802407
Schlagwörter	Females; Women Faculty; Neoliberalism; College Faculty; Criticism; Feminism; Gender Differences; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Universities; Administrator Attitudes; Deans; Islamic Culture; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Trust (Psychology); Foreign Countries; Spiritual Development; Indonesia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Frauenakademie; Weibliche Gelehrte; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Fakultät; Kritik; Feminismus; Geschlechterkonflikt; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf; University; Universität; Dean; Dekan; Islam; Kultur; Führung; Führungsposition; Unternehmenskultur; Ausland; Indonesien
Abstract	Feminist scholars have critiqued neoliberal meritocracy as discriminating against female academics through the persistence of gender-biased assumptions, closed procedures of recruitment and promotion, and patriarchal network connections. While these scholars demand fairer meritocratic competition, we explore possibilities to (re)imagine academic career and university leadership beyond the dominant discourse of neoliberal meritocracy. Based on interviews with female deans in Indonesian universities, we identified two alternative discourses (in)forming their subjectivity as university leaders, which may both challenge and contextualise neoliberal meritocracy. The first is the Islamic notion of leadership as "amanah" (God-given responsibility), and the second is a view of university as family. We demonstrate that understanding university leadership through these discourses enables and fosters a sense of trust, nurture, harmony, relationality, and spirituality; which are in contrast with neoliberal meritocracy's objectivism, individualism, corporatism, and entrepreneurialism. Nevertheless, neoliberal meritocracy is quick to co-opt these contextual ways of being for its neoliberal agenda. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01