Pieśni dezalienacji. O nadziejach i pułapkach autoetnografii na marginesie książki Oskara Szwabowskiego

Review: Oskar Szwabowski, Nekrofilna produkcja akademicka i pieśni partyzantów. Autoetnografia pracy akademickiej i dydaktycznej w czasach zombie-kapitalizmu (Necrophilic Academic Production and the Songs of Partisans: Authoethnography of Academic Research and Teaching in Times of Zombie Capitalism), Instytut Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2019. The review critically reflects on the potential and limitations of the autoethnographic method seen as an analytical tool supporting a better understanding of academic work in the context of the academia’s neoliberal reform in Poland. The review focuses on Oskar Szwabowski’s book Nekrofilna produkcja akademicka i pieśni partyzantów (Necrophilic Academic Production and the Songs of Partisans), which explores alternative forms of academic writing and more democratic model of didactics. The text then addresses the therapeutic-compensatory function of autoethnography, linking it to Szwabowski’s affirmation of the art of parrhesia and the community-forming aspect of collaborative writing. Moreover, the review draws attention to the shortcomings of the book, arguing for a more nuanced, diverse vision of neoliberalism, along with a more in-depth use of the possibilities offered by Donna Haraway’s situated knowledge

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