Autoethnographies from the Neoliberal Academy - Rewilding, Writing and Resistance in Higher Education (Hardcover)

The shift to a neoliberal agenda has, for many academics, intensified the pressure and undermined the pleasure that their work can and does bring. This book contains stories from a range of autoethnographers seeking to challenge traditional academic discourse by providing personal and evocative writings that detail moments of profound transformation and change. The book focuses on the experiences of one academic and the stories that her dialogues with other autoethnographers generated in response to the neoliberal shift in higher education. Chapters use a variety of genres to provide an innovative text that identifies strategies to challenge neoliberal governance. Autoethnography is as a methodology that can be used as form of resistance to this cultural shift by exploring effects on individual academic and personal lives. The stories are necessarily emotional, personal, important. It is hoped that they will promote other ways of navigating higher education that do not align with neoliberalism and instead, offer more holistic and human ways of being an academic. This book highlights the impact of neoliberalism on academics' freedom to teach and think freely. With 40% of academics in the UK considering other forms of employment, this book will be of interest to existing and future academics who want to survive the new environment and maintain their motivation and passion for academic life.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2019
First published:	2020
Editors:	Jess Moriarty
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	228
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-7110-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Research methods Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8153-7110-1
Barcode:	9780815371106

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