Questioning the role of 'faith' in a micropolitics of the neoliberal university

Ng, Edwin

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“…Apparently, we in the South Pacific have been fully engaged in this unnamed project of neoliberalism over the last 30 years (Davies & Bansel, 2007;Harland et al, 2010;Lawn & Prentice, 2015;Ng, 2015). According to Lorenz (2012), "the societal relevance of the universities demanded by critical students [of the 60s and 70s] was turned on its head [in the 80s] to become economic relevance to business and industry in the knowledge society" (pp.…”

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Dark Clouds on the Horizon: Neoliberalism in Higher Education

Barbour

2016

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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In the face of our current political and economic environment, particularly in the context of education, community, and arts, dark clouds on our horizon have fast become storms, storms raining down on us in the South Pacific with a force and subsequent devastation that is soul destroying. Some days I feel we might be in the eye of the storm and other days a glimmer of light sparkles off the rain from the aspirational agendas of UNESCO. But most days, it is dark clouds and storms. Thundering requests for more evidence, gales of economic cuts poorly disguised as enhancement projects, and rain that no arts educator can withstand alone. Where is the sheltering umbrella for an arts academic in the university? This article is a critical autoethnography of hope embodied, a practice of withdrawing to the shelter in my own skin to survive this storm. Or at least, this article is an attempt to find hope.1

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Section: Part Four: the Calm Before The Stormmentioning

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Dark Clouds on the Horizon: Neoliberalism in Higher Education

Barbour

2016

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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“…The visible digital teaching arena furthers the potential to increase levels of scrutiny. Comparing tenured academics and those on fixed contracts, Whelan (2015) and Ng (2015), acknowledge that universities as communities of intellectual integrity are in crisis, particularly in the emergence of multi-tier workforces. Both authors comment on evolution from autonomous academic to continuous subjections to audits and accountability.…”

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Behind the digital curtain: a study of academic identities, liminalities and labour market adaptations for the ‘Uber-isation’ of HE

Collins

Glover

Myers

2020

Teaching in Higher Education

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Behind the Digital Curtain: a study of academic identities, liminalities and labour market adaptations for the "Uber-isation" of HE This paper explores sensemaking narratives from teaching academics undertaking identity work in the context of a rapidly expanding digital education sphere. It considers the implications for emotional labour and status of digitised higher education teaching academics from the imposition of a rejuvenated New Public Management. We discuss possible tainting from fractured and short-term contractual arrangements alongside growth in managerialism, metrics and accountability.This study combines photographic ethnography and interviews to gain insight into uncertainties, anxieties, identity legitimations and participant responses to imposed changes within digitally evolving workspaces. The paper explores teaching cultures within two higher education institutions, on different points of a digital continuum, finding discourses of alienation, liminality and validation.Resultant 'sticky' or resistant behaviours in rapid adaptations to digital teaching life were heard as we aimed to understand what it means to teach in a digitised, neoliberal context.

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The Critique of Mindfulness and the Mindfulness of Critique: Paying Attention to the Politics of Our Selves with Foucault’s Analytic of Governmentality

2016

Mindfulness in Behavioral Health

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Questioning the role of 'faith' in a micropolitics of the neoliberal university

Abstract: This paper proposes that the question of the role of faith in academia invites

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Dark Clouds on the Horizon: Neoliberalism in Higher Education

Dark Clouds on the Horizon: Neoliberalism in Higher Education

Behind the digital curtain: a study of academic identities, liminalities and labour market adaptations for the ‘Uber-isation’ of HE

The Critique of Mindfulness and the Mindfulness of Critique: Paying Attention to the Politics of Our Selves with Foucault’s Analytic of Governmentality

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