Key Messages
This article investigates processes of neoliberalization of the academy.
It argues that neoliberalism entails shifts from exchange to competition, from equality to inequality, and turns academics into human capital.
It suggests that auditing systems are key mechanisms of neoliberalization that produce unhealthy levels of anxiety and stress in the academy.
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