The neurotic academic: anxiety, casualisation, and governance in the neoliberalising university

‘Not one of the family’: Gender and precarious work in the neoliberal university

“…On the whole, most of our respondents, both men and women, expressed concerns about their future academic career prospects with forced migration and leaving academia as the most common plans to exit precarious academic work. This is consistent with the findings of other studies that have highlighted the significant ‘future‐anxiety’ experienced by precarious academics faced with bleak career prospects (e.g., Read & Leathwood, ) and the role of anxiety in governing casualized academics in the neoliberalized university (Loveday, ). However, degrees of hopelessness are distinguishable between men and women.…”

First Generation Feminist? Auto-Ethnographic Reflections on Politicisation and Finding a Home within Feminism

“…Furthermore, it is key to note that overcoming a traumatic or critical event often pushes researchers to engage in auto-ethnography. As the conditions of a neoliberalising academia change and the ways to 'self-manage' increase (Gill and Donaghue 2016;Loveday 2018), it is perhaps unsurprising that an increasing number of feminist and critical scholars are using auto-ethnography and other creative methodologies (Kara 2015) as a means of communicating and analysing their experiences-experiences that are hidden, silenced, or denied. Combining these approaches with a genealogical methodology, we may be able to more clearly see the relational, the contextual, as well as the individual experience-how not only inheritance, fragments, and memories shape how we become feminist, but also the structures in which we are contained.…”

“…My inherited and experienced traumas came to a 'snap' (Ahmed 2017) during a period of debilitating chronic illness-the stress of which was exacerbated by the constant and increasing demands of an 'uncaring' academia (Gill 2009;Rogers 2017;Loveday 2018). I realised that I no longer wanted to play this game.…”

Sujeto Académico Neoliberal: Cuantificado, Digitalizado y Bibliometrificado

“…Son prácticas neoliberales contemporáneas que se sustentan en la configuración de un académico errático y ambivalente que se mueve continuamente de sus pretensiones, para reproducir las exigencias del sistema que no son las que desea hacer. Esta ambivalencia ejemplifica resultados similares a lo que ha sido descrito como la creación de nuevas subjetividades académicas de la universidad esquizofrénica o de trastornos de personalidad múltiple (Shore, 2010, p. 20) que comienza a producir académicos neuróticos (Loveday, 2018). Son procesos de somatización del neoliberalismo que se introducen en la psique del sujeto constituyendo un sujeto académico ambivalente.…”