Remodeling Shared Governance

Cole, Kirsti; Hassel, Holly; Schell, Eileen E.

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“…Many women scholars from different perspectives and in various contexts have raised awareness about and critiqued gender biases and inequalities in academia, arguing that gender biases help to perpetuate a work environment that is not always supportive of women's careers (Morley and Walsh, 1995;Shayne, 2014;Alatas and Sinha, 2017;Cole and Hassel, 2017;Thwaites and Pressland, 2017;Shelton, Flynn and Grosland, 2018). Although there is some Chilean scholarship on this issue (Ortiz, 2017;Herrera Oesterheld and Vera Fuente-Alba, 2021;Guizardi, Gonzálvez and Stefoni, 2022;Sepúlveda and Pérez, 2022), more work needs to be done to bring to the fore the experiences of minoritised and marginalised people in academia in different regions of the country.…”

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strategies to promote dignified and feminist academia: some collaborative reflections from Chile

Ortiz,

Mendoza-Horvitz,

Sepúlveda

et al. 2024

Feminist Review

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars around the world warned about increasing gender inequalities within academia. In this context, we created Red Feminista de las Ciencias Sociales to support initiatives among women researchers in Chile. Our objective is to appeal for gender equality in academia and to promote structural changes that guarantee dignified feminist academia in the social sciences. This article draws on various self-training and discussion activities developed by the Red Feminista between mid-2021 and mid-2022 to discuss the role of women in academia, with implications for other marginalised groups in Chile and possibly other countries where inequality in academia is also a reality. Based on our discussions, we propose strategies to promote a decentralised, decolonised and feminist social science academia that guarantees gender equality as a fundamental human right and as a crosscutting axis in producing knowledge and access to it. We organise these strategies into four pillars: 1) equity and justice in the production of knowledge, 2) dignified work conditions in the production of knowledge, 3) a work environment free from harassment and 4) the democratisation of access to knowledge. Whilst these aspects have been studied in other countries, this article addresses the specific context of Chile. We argue that it is possible to reflect on feminisms (in plural) within academia and propose practical strategies for establishing new dynamics through collaborative work.

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Section: Reflections About Feminism In Academiamentioning

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strategies to promote dignified and feminist academia: some collaborative reflections from Chile

Ortiz,

Mendoza-Horvitz,

Sepúlveda

et al. 2024

Feminist Review

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“…Previous scholarship has recognized the potential of feminist praxis to confront and resist the neoliberal and managerial practices in universities (e.g., Allen 2015;Asher 2010;Christou 2016;Christou and Janta 2019;Cole et al 2017;De Welde and Stepnick 2015;Spitzer-Hanks 2016). Studies have identified feminist administrators' varied practices to transform higher education from the inside, more often through incremental changes in policy and practice than radical disruptions (Barton 2006;De Welde, Ollilainen, and Solomon 2019;Deem and Ozga 2000;Hughes 2000;Mauthner and Edwards 2010;Strachan 1999).…”

Section: Feminism As Resistance Against Academic Managerialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The critical role of feminism in organizational life and its potential to resist neoliberal regimes is, by now, well documented (Bartlett 2017; Bell, Meriläinen, Taylor, and Tienari 2019; Bendl and Schmidt 2012; Christou and Janta 2019; Cole, Hassel, and Schell 2017; De Welde, Ollilainen, and Solomon 2019; Vachhani and Pullen 2019). Much of this literature draws upon notions of feminist praxis as a set of behaviors, affects, motivations, and values that are rooted in the development of feminist consciousness, not solely in identity or affiliation based on gender or other social categories.…”

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“…Feminist-minded leaders can occupy a critical role against the rise of managerialism that has also eroded the position of faculty in shared governance. For example, Cole et al (2017:15) propose that feminist leaders can steer faculty governing bodies toward greater inclusivity and protection of faculty against university administrators and suggest that “applying the feminist label to the space of shared governance operates in the context of opening access, including diverse voices, building relationships, sharing knowledge, and achieving goals collectively.”…”

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Solidarity as Resistance: Feminist Administrators in U.S. Academia

De Welde,

Ollilainen,

Solomon

2023

Social Currents

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This study examines how feminist academic administrators engender solidarity and practice feminist principles as leaders in United States higher education institutions. We draw from qualitative interview data with 27 self-identified feminist academic leaders about how they carry out this work, what obstacles they face, and the ways that their work disrupts—and is disrupted by—the intensifying neoliberal, managerial tendencies in higher education. Respondents shared experiences of promoting solidarity through their leadership and strove to create inclusive and equitable environments to benefit students, staff, and faculty, and especially minoritized individuals within these groups. Our analysis reveals how these feminist administrators applied a feminist ethic, engendered solidarity in their work, and were often keenly aware of—and willing to contest—the neoliberal context of their institutions and higher education more broadly. Our findings contribute to the sociological and cross-disciplinary literature on feminist leaders in academic institutions and the resistance against neoliberalism and managerialism practices from within academia.

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Current state of female leadership in higher education institutions in Saudi Arabia

Abdullah Dahlan

2023

Cogent Business & Management

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Remodeling Shared Governance

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strategies to promote dignified and feminist academia: some collaborative reflections from Chile

strategies to promote dignified and feminist academia: some collaborative reflections from Chile

Solidarity as Resistance: Feminist Administrators in U.S. Academia

Current state of female leadership in higher education institutions in Saudi Arabia

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