Academic women with migrant background in the global knowledge economy: Bodies, hierarchies and resistance

Mählck, Paula

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2012.09.007

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“…male nurse, female engineer -were disadvantages in getting hired (Orupabo, 2014: 293). Other feminist scholars researching career paths within academia in Sweden have come to similar conclusions: ethnicity and gender are factors affecting job opportunities and career paths (Mählck, 2012;2013;de los Reyes, 2007) and, therefore, utilizing employability as an ideal can be critiqued in terms its effect on a global scale (Garsten & Jacobsson, 2004).…”

Section: Gender Studies and Employabilitymentioning

confidence: 94%

Gender jobs: Dilemmas of Gender Studies education and employability in Sweden

Werner

Lundberg

2016

European Journal of Women's Studies

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In the past decades a large number of students have taken courses and degrees in Gender Studies around Europe and proceeded to find employment. This article is based on a quantitative and qualitative study carried out in 2012 of Gender Studies students in Sweden, their education and employment. The design of the study was inspired by a large European research project investigating Women’s Studies in Europe and concerned with the motives for doing Gender Studies among Swedish students, as well as who the students were, how they evaluated their Gender Studies education and what work they proceeded to after they left the university. In this article the results are discussed in terms of dilemmas: between Gender Studies’ critique of neoliberalism, employability and the former students’ wishes to be employed, and their evaluation of their studies and employment. The Swedish study is also compared with previous research in order to understand general and particular traits in Swedish Gender Studies education and employment. Analysis points to interesting contradictions within Gender Studies in relation to the labor market, student groups and employability.

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Section: Gender Studies and Employabilitymentioning

confidence: 94%

Gender jobs: Dilemmas of Gender Studies education and employability in Sweden

Werner

Lundberg

2016

European Journal of Women's Studies

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“…Neoliberal rationality is presented as ungendered, ‘which produces an imaginary of a seemingly disembodied researcher’ (Mählck, , p. 65). Meritocracy perpetuates this neutrality (Roth & Sonnert, ; Van den Brink & Benschop, ) when it denies the presence of gender in the name of fairness (Acker & Armenti, ).…”

Section: Neoliberal Governmentality Within Academiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Alongside other authors, we consider that this ‘love’ makes the subject more susceptible to control, and to (self) exploitation (Clarke et al, ; Coin, ; Gill, ), and even self‐flagellation (Archer, ), in order to comply with the principle of productive work (Fassa, ) and the strong culture of performance (Thomas & Davies, ). Both quotes contained clear gender implications: the promotion of the figure of a disembodied scientist (Mählck, , p. 65) with no bonds outside science and with no spatial or temporal limits inside science (Davies & Petersen, , p. 95).…”

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Subjectivation processes and gender in a neoliberal model of science in three Spanish research centres

Vayreda

Conesa

Benavente

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Gender Work & Organization

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From a Foucauldian approach, neoliberal rationality in science can be understood as a form of governance of the self that produces mechanisms through which the subject is constructed and subordinated at the same time. In this study we examine subjectivation processes and gender in centres of research created under neoliberal scientific rationality. We analyse 19 semi‐structured interviews of men and women researchers conducted in three highly competitive centres of excellence — a context rarely addressed in the literature of academic subjectivities. Following a critical discourse analysis, we show how subjectivation processes of neoliberal rationality result in two main discursive mechanisms of subjection that prevent or hinder alternative subjectivities and collective resistance, especially for women, presenting a double turn that we call: a ‘turn on oneself’ and a ‘gendered turn on oneself’. We conclude that these centres are spaces which provide the conditions of possibility to develop a scientific entrepreneurial self, excluding ‘other’ scientific subjectivities and preventing possible resistances that could emerge from them.

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“…Här sker inte bara en kommodifiering av den kunskap som förväntas cirkulera i universitetet, utan också av de subjektiviteter som ska bära upp denna kunskap: Kvinnor, svarta, personer med arbetarklass-och/eller migrantbakgrund bidrar alla till att stärka universitetets varumärke och därmed dess position i den globala konkurrensen (Hark 2016). Som en effekt av universitetets visionära varumärkesbyggande upplever sig personer som tillhör dessa subjektskategorier -kvinnor, svarta, personer med arbetarklass-och/eller migrantbakgrund -på samma gång både hypersynliga och osynliga, eftersom strukturell diskriminering fortsätter att utövas på olika nivåer inom universitetets organisation (Liinason 2014;de los Reyes 2007;Mählck 2013). 15.…”

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Jämställdhet som assemblage

Liinason

2017

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SAMMANFATTNINGDen här artikeln undersöker hur jämställdhet ges betydelse och mening inom och mellan tre olika samhällsarenor i Sverige idag. I kontrast till ambitioner att utvärdera jämställd-hetspolitikens olika brister och framgångar, menar jag att jämställdhet kan förstås som ett väsentligen omtvistat begrepp och jag föreslår att «assemblage» är ett användbart begrepp för att förstå hur jämställdhet konstrueras genom kopplingar till andra begrepp. Med en multi-situerad etnografisk metod, undersöker jag hur jämställdhet ges betydelse och mening i tre fallstudier: kvalitetsarbete på ett statligt universitet; regeringens uppfattning om jämställdhet och dess vidare betydelse nationellt och internationellt; samt föreställ-ningar om jämställdhet och kvinnors rättigheter i civilsamhällesorganisationer. Genom en analys av detta material, identifierar jag kopplingar mellan jämställdhet och andra begrepp, såsom kvalitet, effektivitet eller kvinnors rättigheter och jag visar hur dessa förståelser av jämställdhet används för att forma normaliseringsprocesser och rättfärdiga strukturella ojämlikheter i termer av klass, ras, etnicitet och nationalitet. I en ambition att utveckla ett konstruktivt alternativ till de dilemman som uppstår som ett resultat av jämställdhet som assemblage, föreslår jag mot slutet av artikeln några möjliga sätt att gå bortom en sådan hierarkiskt differentierande diskurs.

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Academic women with migrant background in the global knowledge economy: Bodies, hierarchies and resistance

Cited by 47 publications

References 13 publications

Gender jobs: Dilemmas of Gender Studies education and employability in Sweden

Gender jobs: Dilemmas of Gender Studies education and employability in Sweden

Subjectivation processes and gender in a neoliberal model of science in three Spanish research centres

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