My High Horse Is Dying

Agitating Internalized Neoliberalism in Higher Education With(Out) Compassion

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ID2409166
AuthorsRachel Keener Killam (0000-0003-2586-5206)
Year2023
Volume23
Issue1
Pages35-61
Publication date2023-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/15327086221107050
OpenAlexW4285044251
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited24

This critical, poststructural autoethnography agitates internalized neoliberalism in the higher education context. Provocative and experimental, it is intended to trouble neoliberal norms that shape professional selves and higher-education-the-collective, while also interweaving what it means to be/come a scholar. Nonlinear flares, manifested in theorization, images, vignettes, checklists, and poetry illuminate the subtleties of inescapable neoliberalism at individual and systemic levels. Offering compassion as a throughline of inquiry, I wonder if/how it is possible for compassion to disrupt neoliberalism through the precarity of individual and systemic enaction. As higher education goes on, and uncertain institutions contemplate staff/faculty retention, along with the telos of college education, how do we come to terms with neoliberalism's stronghold that stifles emancipating onto-epistemic possibilities? Can/does compassion create breeches for new possibilities

Autoethnography · Compassion · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Telos · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Digital Education and Society · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Law · Philosophy

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