M D M Pereira
Biographic Data
| ID | 18916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M D M Pereira |
| GIVEN NAMES | M D M |
| FAMILY NAME | Pereira |
| SIGNATURE | PEREIRA M D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3745-6266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Rethinking power and positionality in debates about citation: Towards a recognition of complexity and opacity in academic hierarchies
Discussions about epistemic inequalities have for several years highlighted the need to engage critically and reflexively with the politics of citation. Many authors have called for colleagues to correct longstanding epistemic and material injustices by proactively citing scholars and scholarship from marginalised groups, thereby producing radical knowledge that disrupts power. Analysing the epistemic-political grammar of these calls, I note that…
Researching gender inequalities in academic labor during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Avoiding common problems and asking different questions
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, a growing body of international literature is analyzing the effects of the pandemic on academic labor and, specifically, on gender inequalities in academia. In that literature, much attention has been devoted to comparing the unequal impacts of COVID-19 on the research activities of women and men, with studies demonstrating that women's research productivity has been disproportionately disrupted, in ways that are…
A shelf of one’s own and a room with good views: The importance of place in negotiations of the status of feminist scholarship
Place is not a neutral backdrop against which knowledge production unfolds; it plays an important role in academic practice on many levels, namely in negotiations of what counts as proper knowledge. Specific places are invested with epistemic authority, and thus lend credibility to the knowledge claims produced or presented within them. Place can, therefore, be a valuable resource for academics, especially those working in marginal fields – like …
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 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 produce…
Boundary-work that Does Not Work: Social Inequalities and the Non-performativity of Scientific Boundary-work
Although the STS literature on boundary-work recognizes that such work unfolds within a "terrain of uneven advantage" vis-à-vis gender, race, and other inequalities, reflection about that uneven advantage has been strikingly underdeveloped. This article calls for a retheorizing of boundary-work that engages more actively with feminist, critical race, and postcolonial scholarship and examines more systematically the relation between scientific bou…
Em defesa da pesquisa lenta numa época de ciência acelerada
Vivemos na era da academia rápida, eficiente, dinâmica, produtiva. Em Portugal, como em tantos outros países, institucionalizou-se nos últimos anos uma cultura académica que eu e outras/os autoras/es temos apelidado de performativa (Ball, 2000; Blackmore e Sachs, 2003; M. M. Pereira, 2017). Esta transformação não só alterou as nossas práticas diárias de produção de conhecimento científico, como teve também um outro efeito muito significativo: re…
Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship: An Ethnography of Academia
Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite ‘proper’ knowledge – it’s too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of ‘proper’ knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? How do feminists negotiate them? And how does this boundary-work affect women’s and gender studies, and its scholars’ and students’ lives? These are the questions tackled by this ground-breaking ethnography of academia inspired by…
Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship: An Ethnography of Academia
Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite ‘proper’ knowledge – it’s too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of ‘proper’ knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? How do feminists negotiate them? And how does this boundary-work affect women’s and gender studies, and its scholars’ and students’ lives? These are the questions tackled by this ground-breaking ethnography of academia inspired by…
Man kan känna utmattningen i luften: (Sinnes)stämningen på det nyliberala universitetet och dess påverkan på feministiska forskare
Science and higher education have, in many countries, undergone profound changes in recent decades, often leading to the institutionalisation of academic cultures of performativity. These cultures reconceptualise academic work as labour which must aim to achieve the highest possible productivity and profitability, and whose quality can be assessed on the basis of amount of outputs and income generated. In several contexts, these changes transform…
Teaching gender with libraries and archives: The power of information, Sara de Jong and Sanne Koevoets (eds)
Struggling within and beyond the Performative University: Articulating activism and work in an “academia without walls”
Higher Education Cutbacks and the Reshaping of Epistemic Hierarchies: An Ethnography of the Case of Feminist Scholarship
Analyses of contemporary transformations in higher education and research funding indicate that such transformations impact not just on labour conditions and processes of knowledge production, but also on demarcations of what counts as 'proper' knowledge. As universities in many countries see their core funding reduced, profitability gains importance as a criterion of knowledge evaluation, sometimes producing sudden changes in long-standing disco…
The Importance of Being “Modern” and Foreign: Feminist Scholarship and the Epistemic Status of Nations
Feminist scholars have long analyzed and denounced the hegemony of Western, Anglophone countries in global academic exchanges. They have shown that it produces asymmetrical patterns of traveling of theories and recognition of authors and institutions, which tend to privilege scholarship from countries at the center and limit the visibility and impact of work produced in semiperipheral or peripheral regions. These debates have persuasively demonst…
Introdução. Epistemologias e metodologias feministas em Portugal: Contributos para velhos e novos debates
Desde a sua emergência, uma das principais missões da investigação
‘Feminist theory is proper knowledge, but …’: The status of feminist scholarship in the academy
This article explores some of the most significant questions in feminist epistemology: how do academics demarcate what constitutes ‘proper’ academic knowledge? And to what extent is feminist theory and research recognised as such? I draw on material from an ethnographic study of academia in Portugal to examine the claims that non-feminist scholars make in classrooms and conferences about the epistemic status of feminist scholarship. I observed th…
Uncomfortable classrooms: Rethinking the role of student discomfort in feminist teaching
Researching gender inequalities in academic labor during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Avoiding common problems and asking different questions
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, a growing body of international literature is analyzing the effects of the pandemic on academic labor and, specifically, on gender inequalities in academia. In that literature, much attention has been devoted to comparing the unequal impacts of COVID-19 on the research activities of women and men, with studies demonstrating that women's research productivity has been disproportionately disrupted, in ways that are…
Struggling within and beyond the Performative University: Articulating activism and work in an “academia without walls”
Boundary-work that Does Not Work: Social Inequalities and the Non-performativity of Scientific Boundary-work
Although the STS literature on boundary-work recognizes that such work unfolds within a "terrain of uneven advantage" vis-à-vis gender, race, and other inequalities, reflection about that uneven advantage has been strikingly underdeveloped. This article calls for a retheorizing of boundary-work that engages more actively with feminist, critical race, and postcolonial scholarship and examines more systematically the relation between scientific bou…
Uncomfortable classrooms: Rethinking the role of student discomfort in feminist teaching
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 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 produce…
Higher Education Cutbacks and the Reshaping of Epistemic Hierarchies: An Ethnography of the Case of Feminist Scholarship
Analyses of contemporary transformations in higher education and research funding indicate that such transformations impact not just on labour conditions and processes of knowledge production, but also on demarcations of what counts as 'proper' knowledge. As universities in many countries see their core funding reduced, profitability gains importance as a criterion of knowledge evaluation, sometimes producing sudden changes in long-standing disco…
A shelf of one’s own and a room with good views: The importance of place in negotiations of the status of feminist scholarship
Place is not a neutral backdrop against which knowledge production unfolds; it plays an important role in academic practice on many levels, namely in negotiations of what counts as proper knowledge. Specific places are invested with epistemic authority, and thus lend credibility to the knowledge claims produced or presented within them. Place can, therefore, be a valuable resource for academics, especially those working in marginal fields – like …
Introdução. Epistemologias e metodologias feministas em Portugal: Contributos para velhos e novos debates
Desde a sua emergência, uma das principais missões da investigação
‘Feminist theory is proper knowledge, but …’: The status of feminist scholarship in the academy
This article explores some of the most significant questions in feminist epistemology: how do academics demarcate what constitutes ‘proper’ academic knowledge? And to what extent is feminist theory and research recognised as such? I draw on material from an ethnographic study of academia in Portugal to examine the claims that non-feminist scholars make in classrooms and conferences about the epistemic status of feminist scholarship. I observed th…
Uncomfortable classrooms: Rethinking the role of student discomfort in feminist teaching
The Importance of Being “Modern” and Foreign: Feminist Scholarship and the Epistemic Status of Nations
Feminist scholars have long analyzed and denounced the hegemony of Western, Anglophone countries in global academic exchanges. They have shown that it produces asymmetrical patterns of traveling of theories and recognition of authors and institutions, which tend to privilege scholarship from countries at the center and limit the visibility and impact of work produced in semiperipheral or peripheral regions. These debates have persuasively demonst…
Introdução. Epistemologias e metodologias feministas em Portugal: Contributos para velhos e novos debates
Desde a sua emergência, uma das principais missões da investigação
Struggling within and beyond the Performative University: Articulating activism and work in an “academia without walls”
Higher Education Cutbacks and the Reshaping of Epistemic Hierarchies: An Ethnography of the Case of Feminist Scholarship
Analyses of contemporary transformations in higher education and research funding indicate that such transformations impact not just on labour conditions and processes of knowledge production, but also on demarcations of what counts as 'proper' knowledge. As universities in many countries see their core funding reduced, profitability gains importance as a criterion of knowledge evaluation, sometimes producing sudden changes in long-standing disco…
Teaching gender with libraries and archives: The power of information, Sara de Jong and Sanne Koevoets (eds)
Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship: An Ethnography of Academia
Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite ‘proper’ knowledge – it’s too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of ‘proper’ knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? How do feminists negotiate them? And how does this boundary-work affect women’s and gender studies, and its scholars’ and students’ lives? These are the questions tackled by this ground-breaking ethnography of academia inspired by…
Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship: An Ethnography of Academia
Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite ‘proper’ knowledge – it’s too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of ‘proper’ knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? How do feminists negotiate them? And how does this boundary-work affect women’s and gender studies, and its scholars’ and students’ lives? These are the questions tackled by this ground-breaking ethnography of academia inspired by…
Man kan känna utmattningen i luften: (Sinnes)stämningen på det nyliberala universitetet och dess påverkan på feministiska forskare
Science and higher education have, in many countries, undergone profound changes in recent decades, often leading to the institutionalisation of academic cultures of performativity. These cultures reconceptualise academic work as labour which must aim to achieve the highest possible productivity and profitability, and whose quality can be assessed on the basis of amount of outputs and income generated. In several contexts, these changes transform…
Em defesa da pesquisa lenta numa época de ciência acelerada
Vivemos na era da academia rápida, eficiente, dinâmica, produtiva. Em Portugal, como em tantos outros países, institucionalizou-se nos últimos anos uma cultura académica que eu e outras/os autoras/es temos apelidado de performativa (Ball, 2000; Blackmore e Sachs, 2003; M. M. Pereira, 2017). Esta transformação não só alterou as nossas práticas diárias de produção de conhecimento científico, como teve também um outro efeito muito significativo: re…
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 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 produce…
Boundary-work that Does Not Work: Social Inequalities and the Non-performativity of Scientific Boundary-work
Although the STS literature on boundary-work recognizes that such work unfolds within a "terrain of uneven advantage" vis-à-vis gender, race, and other inequalities, reflection about that uneven advantage has been strikingly underdeveloped. This article calls for a retheorizing of boundary-work that engages more actively with feminist, critical race, and postcolonial scholarship and examines more systematically the relation between scientific bou…
Researching gender inequalities in academic labor during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Avoiding common problems and asking different questions
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, a growing body of international literature is analyzing the effects of the pandemic on academic labor and, specifically, on gender inequalities in academia. In that literature, much attention has been devoted to comparing the unequal impacts of COVID-19 on the research activities of women and men, with studies demonstrating that women's research productivity has been disproportionately disrupted, in ways that are…
A shelf of one’s own and a room with good views: The importance of place in negotiations of the status of feminist scholarship
Place is not a neutral backdrop against which knowledge production unfolds; it plays an important role in academic practice on many levels, namely in negotiations of what counts as proper knowledge. Specific places are invested with epistemic authority, and thus lend credibility to the knowledge claims produced or presented within them. Place can, therefore, be a valuable resource for academics, especially those working in marginal fields – like …
Rethinking power and positionality in debates about citation: Towards a recognition of complexity and opacity in academic hierarchies
Discussions about epistemic inequalities have for several years highlighted the need to engage critically and reflexively with the politics of citation. Many authors have called for colleagues to correct longstanding epistemic and material injustices by proactively citing scholars and scholarship from marginalised groups, thereby producing radical knowledge that disrupts power. Analysing the epistemic-political grammar of these calls, I note that…
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