The Importance of Being “Modern” and Foreign: Feminist Scholarship and the Epistemic Status of Nations

Struggling within and beyond the Performative University: Articulating activism and work in an “academia without walls”

“…Through this study, I found that a range of national and transnational processes -particularly transformation in the models of governance and funding of universities (Pereira, 2015) and the globalisation of academic knowledge production (Pereira, 2014) -have been causing significant transformations in the discourses that circulate in Portuguese academia about the epistemic status of WGFS. For many years, it was common to hear academics say explicitly and publicly that WGFS had no scholarly value or relevance, and thus was not worthy of space in academic institutions; this created significant obstacles to the emergence and development of feminist education and research in Portugal.…”

Marketing Difference: Two Teachable Moments at the Intersection of the Neoliberal University and Geopolitics

“…Gender studies as a discipline has been repeatedly criticised for its universalising approach to the subject of its study and for perpetuating and contributing to thinking about geopolitics in terms of difference and hierarchies (Blagojevic 2005;Cerwonka 2008bCerwonka , 2009Hemmings 2005;Pereira 2014). The refocusing of the class in question on geopolitics has allowed me to discuss and foreground the students' own situatedness and complex ethical position, things that otherwise tend to remain hidden as a result of, rather than despite, how the study abroad programme and its teachers are marketed.…”

Gendered pedagogic identities and academic professionalism in Greek medical schools

“…Discourses are framed here as gendered, classed and racialized tools employed in creating and shifting fluid identities (Antaki and Widdicombe 1998;Hughes 2002). My claim, in line with feminist scholarship, is that the professional experiences shared by Greek women in this paper are shaped by the place they occupy in their stories (in the academy, the Greek society and on the map) (Pereira 2014) and the intersecting inequalities they experience (Tsouroufli 2015).…”

“…I focus on the entangled relations of gender, pedagogic identities and academic professionalism to demonstrate Greek women's agency within the misogynistic realm of medical education and the wider neo-liberal and post-feminist context. My aim is to consider the broader social processes that guide the formation of individual Greek scholars (Gledhill 2002), the gender politics and hierarchical culture of academic medicine, within a context of European recession, marketization of higher education and a shift toward the emerging knowledge economy, in which Universities are expected to make a significant contribution towards a sustainable European labour market (Fumasoli et al 2015) Greek scholars are now expected to engage with entrepreneurialism, and performativity, embrace opportunities and overcome gender, racialized, class as well as epistemic relations of power, both locally and globally (Pereira 2014(Pereira , 2015.…”