scholarly journals Passion, care, and eros in the gendered neoliberal university

Organization ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Lund ◽  
Janne Tienari
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Ruling Relations ◽  
The Way

In this article, we respond to Emma Bell and Amanda Sinclair’s call for reclaiming eros as non-commodified energy that drives academic work. Taking our point of entry from institutional ethnography and the standpoint of junior female academics, we highlight the ambiguity experienced in the neoliberal university in relation to its constructions of potential. We elucidate how potential becomes gendered in and through discourses of passion and care: how epistemic and material detachment from the local is framed as potential and how masculinized passion directs academics to do what counts, while feminized and locally bound care is institutionally appreciated only as far as it supports individualized passion. The way passion and care shape the practices of academic writing and organize the ruling relations of potentiality are challenged through eros, an uncontrollable and un-cooptable energy and longing, which becomes a threat to the gendered neoliberal university and a source of resistance to it. By distinguishing between passion, care, and eros, our institutional ethnography inquiry helps to make sense of the conformity and resistance that characterize the ambiguous experience of today’s academics.

scholarly journals Examining the Institutional Ethnographer’s Toolkit.

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.L. Deveau
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Institutional Processes ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ruling Relations ◽  
Ontological Shift ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Education Nursing

Institutional ethnography (IE) is a method of inquiry advocated by Canadian sociologist Dorothy E. Smith and a wide range of researchers working in sociology, social work, education, nursing, political organizing, social policy, women’s organizations, and so on. Institutional ethnographers do not cede authority to ideas established in the literature. Instead, they rely on people’s experience as the point of entry into inquiry exploring connections among local settings of people’s everyday lives, institutional processes, and translocal ruling relations. Smith’s concept of ‘ruling’ is derived from Marx. IE relies on a theorized way of exploring ruling practices—as people’s social activities organized through texts, language and expertise. This article defines some of the concepts of which newcomers to institutional ethnography need to develop a working knowledge, namely: epistemology (and epistemological shift), ontology (and ontological shift), social organization, social relations, ruling relations, the role of texts in ruling relations, ideology, problematic, discourse, experience as data, interviewing, and data collection.

Uncharted Territory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney Freer
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
Rentier States ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter outlines where and how this book contributes original research to the existing scholarship on politics of rentier states in the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the academic work on political Islam through a brief literature review. This book will demonstrate that political Islam serves as a prominent voice critiquing social policies, as well as promoting more strictly political, and often populist or reformist, views supported by a great many Gulf citizens. As laid out in this chapter, this book demonstrates that the way that Islamist organizations operate in the unique environment of the super-rentiers is distinct. It also presents information about the methodology and sources used, as well as a detailed explanation for the use of country cases chosen. The chapter closes by describing the format of the book.

Denationalization

2017 ◽  
pp. 357-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Gibney
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
State Power ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Citizenship Status ◽  
The Way

Citizenship in the modern state is in many ways uniquely secure as a status. Yet states have always possessed some bases through which they may remove citizenship, including fraud, disloyalty, acquisition of another citizenship, marriage to a foreigner, and threat to public order. Indeed, denationalization powers have recently gained attention as many liberal states have created new laws to strip citizenship from individuals involved with terrorism. In this chapter, I explore the practice of denationalization. I first consider the definition, grounds, and historical development of denationalization power. I then draw from recent academic work to show how denationalization offers insights into questions of significance relating to the ethical limits of state power, the historical development of citizenship status, and the way restrictive immigration controls impact upon state members. I conclude with a discussion of some outstanding issues raised by the denationalization for scholars of citizenship.

Creating a Support Structure for Academic Writing and Publication Support

2015 ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Tonette S. Rocco ◽  
Lori Ann Gionti ◽  
Cynthia M. Januszka ◽  
Sunny L. Munn ◽  
Joshua C. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Writing Center ◽  
Writing Centers ◽  
Scholarly Writing ◽  
Support Structure ◽  
Writing For Publication ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Although research and writing for publication are seen as important responsibilities for most graduate students and faculty, many struggle to understand the process and how to succeed. Unfortunately, writing centers at most universities do not cater to these kinds of needs but rather to course-specific needs of undergraduate students. This chapter presents and explains the principles underlying Florida International University's establishment of The Office of Academic Writing and Publication Support, an office specifically designed to aid the scholarly writing efforts of graduate students and faculty. In doing so, this chapter aims to describe strategies and programs for the improvement of scholarly writing, provide insight into the kind of learning that can take place in a university writing center, and reflect on successes and missteps along the way. This chapter may be especially helpful to educators who seek to create similar offices or services at their own institutions.

scholarly journals The invisibility of ruling texts: An institutional ethnographic scoping review of family caregivers’ information work

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole K. Dalmer
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Information Work

To make visible how different facets of family caregivers’ eldercare work are highlighted or obscured in academic writing and research, this institutional ethnography-based scoping review examined the conceptualizations and portrayals of family caregivers’ information work in scholarship and the degree to which this type of work is recognized. In doing so, this study deepens our understanding of the complex relationship between information and care by exploring how texts come to regulate our understanding about and research surrounding information-related care work.

scholarly journals Music Studies in the New Millennium: Perspectives from Canada

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
John Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Theory Theory ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Cultural Shifts ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
The Way ◽  
New Millennium

Canada and the Canadian University Music Review have proved fertile grounds for the development of progressive music scholarship since the 1970s. Such developments had to counter the weight of history, which supported established and securely institutionalized forms of academic music. Yet these progressive developments in turn benefitted from major social and cultural shifts, such as those of the Depression years and of "the sixties." A crucial lever and sustaining force in major developments in progressive music scholarship that were to occur from the 1970s onward was critical theory. Theory now pervades much academic work in music, and has given rise to more sophisticated and varied approaches than was possible in the 1970s. The essays in this volume evidence this sophistication and variety, and bear witness to the way in which the intellectual and social topography of Canada can be argued to have proved especially nurturing to progressive scholarship in music.

Doing Decoloniality in the Writing Borderlands of the PhD

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ailie McDowall ◽  
Fabiane Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Zero Point ◽  
Academic Training ◽  
The Road ◽  
The World ◽  
Constant State ◽  
The Way

This paper takes us into the Writing Borderlands, an ambiguous in-between space borrowed from Anzaldúa's concept of Borderlands, where we as PhD students are in a constant state of transition. We argue that theorising from a decolonial position consists of not merely using concepts around coloniality/decoloniality, but also putting its core ideas into practice in the ‘doing’ aspect of research. The writing is a major part of this doing. We enact epistemic disobedience by challenging taken-for-granted conventions of what ‘proper’ academic writing looks like. Writing from a universal standpoint — the type of writing prescribed in theses formats, positivist research methods and ‘proper’ academic writing — has been instrumental in promoting the zero-point epistemologies that prevail through Northern artefacts of knowledge. In other words, we write to de-link from the epistemological assumption of a neutral and detached observational location from which the world is interpreted. In this paper, we discuss the journey we take as PhD students as we attempt to delink and decolonise our writing. Traversing the landscape of the Writing Borderlands, different features arise and fall. Along the way, we come across forks in the road between academic training and the new way we imagine writing decolonially.

scholarly journals How to create and develop writing centres

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Galtung ◽  
Cathinka Dahl Hambro ◽  
Solveig Kavli
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Writing Development ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Good Writing ◽  
The Way

This roundtable addresses how three Norwegian writing centres – in different stages of their establishment and settled within different constitutional frames – handle staff policy and aims to facilitate academic writing to their main users; students and PhD candidates. We will structure the discussion around four main themes that we juggle in our daily work:  Using strategic plans to promote academic writing development and student throughput Co-creating learning activities with and for MA students Keeping up with the Library and Faculty Strengthening and further developing academic writing in Higher Education Attendees at the roundtable will be invited to discuss and participate in a dialogue on the way in which writing centres can improve the students’ and PhD candidates’ writing process; why we find teaching and preaching academic writing to be an important skill, and how we can co-create learning activities in libraries and writing centres with academic staff and students. We will also discuss the issue of legitimacy, and  what it takes to move writing centre activities from the periphery to the centre of the institution and its pedagogical mission. The audience will leave with ideas and inspirations on how to facilitate and build good writing centres in collaboration between staff, librarians and experienced students.

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