Passion, care, and eros in the gendered neoliberal university
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20501153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Lund (0000-0002-7068-6090, University of Tampere, corresponding author), Janne Tienari (0000-0002-2605-2760, Hanken School of Economics) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 98-121 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1350508418805283 |
| OpenAlex | W2897327941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 63 |
| References cited | 69 |
In this article, we respond to Emma Bell and Amanda Sinclair’s call for reclaiming eros as non-commodified energy that drives academic work. Taking our point of entry from institutional ethnography and the standpoint of junior female academics, we highlight the ambiguity experienced in the neoliberal university in relation to its constructions of potential. We elucidate how potential becomes gendered in and through discourses of passion and care: how epistemic and material detachment from the local is framed as potential and how masculinized passion directs academics to do what counts, while feminized and locally bound care is institutionally appreciated only as far as it supports individualized passion. The way passion and care shape the practices of academic writing and organize the ruling relations of potentiality are challenged through eros, an uncontrollable and un-cooptable energy and longing, which becomes a threat to the gendered neoliberal university and a source of resistance to it. By distinguishing between passion, care, and eros, our institutional ethnography inquiry helps to make sense of the conformity and resistance that characterize the ambiguous experience of today’s academics
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Commodification · Ethnography · Passion · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Mentoring and Academic Development · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 63 |
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| Citations per year | 9 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 60 |