Neoliberal Universities, Patriarchies, Masculinities, and Myself: Transnational-personal Reflections on and from the Global North

Hearn, Jeff

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“…All these developments are to be understood more fully by highlighting critical analysis and practice in relation to men and masculinities. Men and masculinities now operate within the complex relations between transnational neoliberal academic patriarchies, neoliberal (supposedly 'autonomous') universities and constructions of neoliberal, individual and individualist 'autonomous' masculinities (Hearn 2017). These conditions demand new, creative responses for changing men nationally and transnationally.…”

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The Gender-Sensitive University

Drew¹,

Canavan²

2020

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The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism.This book demonstrates that awareness of gender equality and gender sensitivity are essential for pulling contemporary academia back from the brink. New forms of leadership are fundamental to reforming our institutions. The concept of a gender-sensitive university requires re-envisioning academia to meet these challenges, as does a different engagement of men and a shift towards fluidity in how gender is formulated and performed. Academia can only be truly gender sensitive if, learning from the past, it can avoid repeating the same mistakes and addressing existing and new biases. The book chapters analyse these challenges and advocate the possibilities to 'fix it forward' in all areas.Representing ten EU countries and multiple disciplines, contributors to this volume highlight the evidence of persistent gender inequalities in academia, while advocating a blueprint for addressing them. The book will be of interest to a global readership of students, academics, researchers, practitioners, academic and political leaders and policymakers who share an interest in what it takes to establish gender-sensitive universities.

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The Gender-Sensitive University

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Canavan²

2020

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“…A further test arrived when the staff asked me to become head of the three-subject department. It was a challenging, very embodied experience to try to do profeminist management at a time of neoliberal organizational transformation and resource cutbacks (Hearn, 2001(Hearn, , 2017, to manage in a different gendered mode that pleased some and confused others. In doing the impossible, I relied, 'traded', a lot on pre-existing, largely good, relations with most staff, and tried to balance conflicting interests, whilst disagreeing with some of them, and defending against pressures from management.…”

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Organizational autoethnographies of economy, finance, business and management

Hearn¹,

Sveiby

Thym

2020

The Routledge International Handbook of Organizational Autoethnography

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Organizational autoethnography allows for specific insights concerning the understanding of economy, finance, business and management. It takes into account the lives and biographies of individuals in organizations, their emotions, normative orientations, their perceptions of work cultures, the stickiness of social relations in organizations and wider society, and the experienced material realities in these fields. These social dynamics cannot be grasped with (neo)classical economic theory and the idea of the homo oeconomicus. Rather, organizational autoethnography furthers the consideration and investigation of critical reflections on lives in and of institutions. Furthermore, it allows to better understand the relation between people in a problematic system and the system and to differentiate between the two. Methods and ethicsOrganizational autoethnography draws on a variety of methods, including the ethnographer's and others' accounts, organizational documents, more or less critical autobiography, memory work, creative and experimental writing, as well as ethnographic methods more generally, 3 oral history, reminiscence work, and psychoanalytic approaches. With Adams, Jones and Ellis (2014) we understand "[a]utoethnographic stories" as "artistic and analytic demonstrations of how we come to know, name, and interpret personal and cultural experience" (p. 1). Autoethnography uses "deep and careful self-reflection -typically referred to as 'reflexivity'to name and interrogate the intersections between self and society, the particular and the general, the personal and the political" (p. 2). The potential and contribution of organizational autoethnography is thus fairly clear in the reflexive exploration of experience of, and orientation and relation to, organizations, but perhaps less obvious is how organizational autoethnography may contribute to the study of and provide specific new insights on the economy, finance, business and management. Furthermore, in studying the economic and the financial, many methodological issues arise, for example around research access, ethics, as well as what kind of data is usable, and what data is ethical to use? What is formally public data? And to what extent should one respect financial and legal and business privilege of economic actors? And should one tread lightly or more confrontationally in analyzing the economic and the financial?There are also what can be called narrative challenges in doing organizational autoethnography in and on economic, financial, business and managerial sites. Does one seek a neutral or a class-, gender-or ethnically-conscious narrative? How is domination of the public sphere and public discourse over the private sphere to be challenged? Is this suggestive of a shift in attention from heroic postures in the public sphere to lived contradictions between and within the public and the private, for both researcher and researched? And how is time to be represented, with temporal challenges moving from chronological linearity to some non-linearities? (s...

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Die Ökonomisierung von Diversität

Alemann

Shinozaki

2018

Geschlecht Und Gesellschaft

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Neoliberal Universities, Patriarchies, Masculinities, and Myself: Transnational-personal Reflections on and from the Global North

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

The Gender-Sensitive University

The Gender-Sensitive University

Organizational autoethnographies of economy, finance, business and management

Die Ökonomisierung von Diversität

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