«You can feel the exhaustion in the air around you»: The mood of contemporary universities and its impact on feminist scholarship
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 womens, 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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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres - APEM
2019
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| Online Access: | http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0874-55602019000100012 |
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