Disciplining Academic Women: Gender Restructuring and the Labour of Research in Entrepreneurial Universities
Year: 2015
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter examines the 'gendered nature of the social organisation of research and scientific knowledge production' and in particular the gendered nature of the corporatisation of higher education (Knorr-Cetina 1999, 9).It argues that the conditions of labour of the entrepreneurial university and underlying marketoriented instrumentalism has changed the nature of the relationship of higher education with the public, with the individual student and the academic, in ways that are gendered.'Markets do not make social distinctions disappear, they regulate interaction between institutions e.g.families and education, and "instrumentalist" status distinctions, bending pre-existing cultural value to capitalist purposes' (Fraser and Honneth 1998, 58).The dominant neoliberal policy 'doxa', with its economistic view of higher education in relation to the knowledge economy, is an ideology which shapes a range of constantly changing discursive and material practices (Epstein et al. 2008).This is 'not so much a "new" form of liberal government, but rather a hybrid or intensified form of it' that works through and on subjectivities that are racialised, gendered, classed and sexualised (Bansel et al. 2008, 673).Neoliberal reforms have produced new forms of governmentality premised upon comparison.Within the social field of higher education, the rules of the game have changed over the past two decades (Naidoo 2004).Internally, elite universities seek to maintain their comparative advantage relative to newer universities in the Australian market as external pressures intensify.These pressures include the entrance of new players (Singapore, China, Indonesia) and increased competitiveness of established players (USA, UK, Germany) in the international
Source: ANU Press eBooks
Author: Jill Blackmore
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2738529243