Naslov
Who Does What: On Academic Capitalism and Gender

Autori
Miloš, Brigita

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, ostalo

Skup
Feminism in a transnational perspective

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska; online, 24.05.2021. - 28.05.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
academic capitalism, gender mainstreaming, merit

Sažetak
The proposed presentation revolves around reflecting the notion of merit in the lens of the two ongoing processes within academia. Starting from the definition of academic capitalism as "the shift towards managerial authority, accountability to economic productivity standards, and quantitative performance auditing" ((Ferree and Zippel, 2015), the presentation will propose an account on academic gender mainstreaming as an endeavour with ambivalent consequences, and especially so for the gender regularly underrepresented on the major academic achievement scale. The main argument employs the notion of merit as a vital characteristic of an individual successful academic career and as a claimed prerequisite of broadly understood academic performance. The gender-blind perception of academic merit overlooks the "gender regime" (Connell, 2006) in academia, as in any other workplace circumstances that deeply contours the entire setting. What is imagined as a corrective treatment for such an overseeing hardly reaches the causes of what it seeks to resolve. Moreover, the process of gender mainstreaming poses new and challenging questions regarding the current academic functioning. One of the most fundamental is how the notion of equality/equity function "in an environment where competition policy prevailed, in-equality, not equality, was the raison d'eˆtre" (Thornton, 2013).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Rodni studiji

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