‘Unsettling’ women's studies, settling neoliberal threats in the academia: A feminist gaze from Croatia

Kašić, Biljana

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2015.06.014

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“…Academia is often described as based on values including freedom, meritocracy, egalitarianism and equality (Currie, Thiele, & Harris, , p. 29; Hutchison & Jenkins, ). Although a large body of research in social sciences shows how, in practice, universities diverge from those values and the different ways in which they contribute to perpetuation of inequalities and marginalization (Bailyn, ; Bird, ; Kašić, ; Knipfer, Shaughnessy, Hentschel, & Schmid, ; Wilson, Marks, Noone, & Hamilton‐Mackenzie, ), STEM faculty in this group embraced a traditional ethos about academia. In their view, the structure of higher education did not allow for individual characteristics like gender to become influential for one's opportunities.…”

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Gender in academic STEM: A focus on men faculty

Sattari

Sandefur

2018

Gender Work & Organization

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In this study, we explore how men faculty understand the role of gender in shaping faculty experiences in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and how they position themselves in relation to inequalities disfavouring women. Our data reveal diversity among men in their understandings regarding challenges facing women in STEM. The majority of our participants revealed gender‐blind perspectives and argued that the egalitarian structure of academia does not allow gender to impact attainments in STEM in any significant way. However, a considerable number of them felt privileged compared to women and described subtle ways in which gender shapes opportunities. Our findings show the important implications of men's sensitivity to gender in the ways they perform their professional roles as, for example, mentors, colleagues and teachers in relation to women in STEM. They further call for attention to men's perceptions of gender issues when designing institutional interventions for improving women's conditions in STEM.

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Gender in academic STEM: A focus on men faculty

Sattari

Sandefur

2018

Gender Work & Organization

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“…U tom smislu, globalni procesi učvršćivanja neoliberalnog kapitalizma kaleme se na jaka patrijarhalna strujanja koja su skrajnula nasleđe socijalističkog feminizma u postjugoslovenskim državama. Bliska povezanost i čak potčinjavanje Ane Brnabić patrijarhalnom autoritetu ukazuje na to koliko je postjugoslovenski feministički angažman depolitizovan kroz institucionalizaciju i profesionalizaciju (Kašić, 2016). Više nego što je njen mandat bez stvarne političke moći za nju samu "propuštena šansa", Brnabić je, pre svega, "propuštena šansa" ovdašnjeg feminističkog pokreta da neheteroseksualnu borbu artikuliše na intersekcionalno osetljiv način koji bi uključivao i prevazilazio fokus na emancipatorno zakonodavstvo.…”

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Ana is here: Abjection, class privilege, and the prime minister Ana Brnabic

Bilić

2020

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This paper employs the notion of abjection to explore how debates surrounding Ana Brnabic, the first openly lesbian prime minister in Serbia and Eastern Europe, stir affectively lined layers of prejudice across the political spectrum. Drawing upon a range of empirical sources, I argue that the actors engaging in debates about Brnabic?s both private and public life are entangled in a loop of abjection which, while comprising gender, sexuality, ?race?, and the body, reflects strong patriarchal undercurrents as structural features of Serbian politics.

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“…This collegial engagement generates richer knowledge and a stronger field. It also has another crucial benefit: it is the best way to fight 'the neoliberal university's ontology of individualism and ethics of disconnection' (Kašić 2016) and resist its 'sick climate' of individualistic performativity (Wånggren et al 2017;Augusto et al 2018).…”

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“You can feel the exhaustion in the air around you”: The Mood of Contemporary Universities and its Impact on Feminist Scholarship

Pereira

2019

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Science and higher education have undergone profound changes in recent decades, leading in many countries to the institutionalisation of academic cultures of performativity. In this article, I examine how that institutionalisation shapes women's, gender, feminist studies (WGFS) in paradoxical ways. Drawing on an ethnography of Portuguese academia, I show that the growing emphasis on productivity has created opportunities for WGFS but also produced a mood of exhaustion and depression that has extremely detrimental impacts on WGFS academics' bodies, relationships and knowledge production. I use this paradox to call for more debate in WGFS about contemporary academic working cultures, and our ambivalent personal investments in work.

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‘Unsettling’ women's studies, settling neoliberal threats in the academia: A feminist gaze from Croatia

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Gender in academic STEM: A focus on men faculty

Gender in academic STEM: A focus on men faculty

Ana is here: Abjection, class privilege, and the prime minister Ana Brnabic

“You can feel the exhaustion in the air around you”: The Mood of Contemporary Universities and its Impact on Feminist Scholarship

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