Doing Academia Differently: “I Needed Self-Help Less Than I Needed a Fair Society”

Bisaillon, Laura; Cattapan, Alana; Driessen, Annelieke; Duin, Esther van; Spruit, Shannon; Anton, Lorena; Jecker, Nancy S.

doi:10.1353/fem.2020.0010

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“…So, "starting from the self, here and now" means that academics should bring their intersectionality and multiple belongings into play in their agency, in everyday life contexts, including workplaces, from now. A first step in this direction is to question their identity as a traditional academics and to become agents of change in their work and professionalism, actively promoting structural changes (Bencivenga and Drew, 2021) and new ways of doing science and academia (see Bisaillon et al, 2020).…”

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Gender and professionalism: Still a black box a call for research, debate and action. Suggestions from and beyond the pandemic crisis

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2022

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The gender-professionalism nexus is the source of persistent inequalities in our society. Its continuing relevance emerges even more in the pandemic crisis as a revealing context of social dynamics, showing a “differential in visibility” among welfare professionals, associated with gender, status and power. The attribution of “masculine” and “feminine” connotations (re)produces structures of inequality: there are male/dominant and female/subordinate professions. The exploration of this nexus reveals the existence of two polar meanings of care and body work, as well as two conceptions of professionalism and citizenship. Caring as “therapy” is related to “work on the body” and reflects a classical conception of professionalism aimed at client-citizens; whereas caring as “to care for” is related to “work with and between bodies” and meets better new professionalism aimed at active citizens. Considering gender as professional practice ideology highlights how “gender commonality” is not a solution to inequalities. Furthermore, it can contribute to the deconstruction of the dominance structures. In a such research agenda, narratives of professionals are the key to open the black box. Taking up the challenge to open the gender-professionalism black box is not just a matter of research, but of political action, starting from academia itself.

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Section: Action: Starting From the Self Here And Nowmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender and professionalism: Still a black box a call for research, debate and action. Suggestions from and beyond the pandemic crisis

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The archive and the cafezinho : challenging (disembodied) histories by embodied archival experiences at Acervo Bajubá, an LGBT+ community archive in Brazil

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2023

Gender & Development

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Grieving academic grant rejections: Examining funding failure and experiences of loss

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Bidding for research funding has increasingly become a main feature of academic work from the doctoral level and beyond. Individually and collectively, the process of grant writing – from idea conceptualisation to administration – involves considerable work, including emotional work in imagining possible futures in which the project is enacted. Competition and failure in grant capture are high, yet there is little discussion about how academics experience grant rejections. In this article we draw on our experiences with grant rejections, as authors with diverse social science backgrounds working with death and bereavement, to discuss how grant rejection can be conceptualised as a form of loss and lead to feelings of grief. We end by considering what forms of recognition and support this may enable.

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Doing Academia Differently: “I Needed Self-Help Less Than I Needed a Fair Society”

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Gender and professionalism: Still a black box a call for research, debate and action. Suggestions from and beyond the pandemic crisis

Gender and professionalism: Still a black box a call for research, debate and action. Suggestions from and beyond the pandemic crisis

The archive and the cafezinho : challenging (disembodied) histories by embodied archival experiences at Acervo Bajubá, an LGBT+ community archive in Brazil

Grieving academic grant rejections: Examining funding failure and experiences of loss

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