Collaboration: Exploring the PGR Superpower for Addressing Inequalities within Academia

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.47967/qkty9216 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 5-13

Author(s):

Annayah Prosser

Keyword(s):

Academic Work ◽

Next Generation ◽

Power Structures ◽

Underrepresented Groups ◽

Academic Power ◽

Academic Pipeline

Inequalities within academia are rampant. Sexism, racism, classism and discrimination impose huge barriers to those entering academic work or study. These issues are amplified in times of crisis, such as COVID-19. As postgraduate researchers, we can often feel powerless to address these inequalities. We possess little status in academic power structures, and as such it can be difficult to ‘rock the boat’ or diverge from normalised patterns of discrimination within our fields. In this essay, I argue that while we may lack status, we can adapt and diversify our collaborations with others to effectively address inequality. I outline how collaboration can be a vital tool for elevating underrepresented voices within and outside academia and examine how students with funding in particular can play an important role in this. In diversifying our citations, networks and methods of collaboration, we can ensure increasing opportunities are available for underrepresented groups throughout the academic pipeline. As the next generation of scholars, postgraduate researchers can change the game for underrepresented groups, and ensuring we collaborate diversely is our superpower for doing so.

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Collaboration: Exploring the Postgraduate Researcher’s superpower for addressing inequalities within academia

10.31234/osf.io/d8et9 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Annayah Miranda Beatrice Prosser

Keyword(s):

Academic Work ◽

Next Generation ◽

Power Structures ◽

Underrepresented Groups ◽

Academic Power ◽

Academic Pipeline

Inequalities within academia are rampant. Sexism, racism, classism and discrimination impose huge barriers to those entering academic work or study. These issues are amplified in times of crisis, such as COVID-19. As postgraduate researchers, we can often feel powerless to address these inequalities. We possess little status in academic power structures, and as such it can be difficult to ‘rock the boat’ or diverge from normalised patterns of discrimination within our fields. In this essay, I argue that while we may lack status, postgraduates can adapt and diversify our collaborations with others to effectively address inequality. I outline how collaboration can be a vital tool for elevating underrepresented voices within and outside academia and examine how students with funding in particular can play an important role in this. In diversifying our citations, networks and methods of collaboration, we can ensure increasing opportunities are available for underrepresented groups throughout the academic pipeline. As the next generation of scholars, postgraduate researchers can change the game for underrepresented groups, and ensuring we collaborate diversely is our superpower for doing so.

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Ordo-Liberalism as Tradition, Ideology, and Model of Citizenship: Memorializing, Reinventing, Forgetting

Conservative Liberalism, Ordo-liberalism, and the State ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198854289.003.0005 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 99-128

Author(s):

Kenneth Dyson

Keyword(s):

Family Resemblance ◽

Power Structures ◽

Dual Nature ◽

Academic Power ◽

Liberal Tradition ◽

Complex Processes ◽

Invented Tradition ◽

Canonical Texts ◽

Core Characteristics

This chapter examines the complex processes of memorialization, reinvention, and forgetting that have characterized the Ordo-liberal tradition; the role of the Freiburg School; the selection of certain aspects of political economy and of certain thinkers and texts; and the distinctive focusing illusions that have followed. It also looks at how its identity has been shaped by its ideological makeup and its model of citizenship. The picture that emerges is of a tradition whose core characteristics can be defined but whose boundaries are difficult to fix. Part of the problem is its ideological hybridity as both conservative and liberal. The chapter looks at the dual nature of the Ordo-liberal tradition as explicit and formalized knowledge and as tacit and common-sense knowledge (William Sorley). In the first sense it is characterized by academic power structures, notably in economics and law, and canonical texts, and by the effects of generational change on these structures. In the second sense, Ordo-liberalism is bound up with administrative cultures and the extent to which they are rule-bound and receptive. The chapter then considers two other aspects of the Ordo-liberal tradition: as ideal type (Eucken) and more loosely as family resemblance (Ludwig Wittgenstein); and as authentic and invented tradition (Eric Hobsbawm), distinguishing Freiburg 1, 2, and 3. Finally, the chapter identifies the Ordo-liberal model of citizenship as based on safeguarding the morally responsible individual: the wise consumer, the thrifty saver, and the responsible creditor. It condemns feckless and profligate behaviour, notably of debtors. This model is subjected to critique.

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Vulnerable academic performances. Dialogue on matters of voice and silence in academia

Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research ◽

10.1344/jnmr.v1i1.30161 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Monika Rogowska-Stangret ◽

Olga Cielemęcka

Keyword(s):

Academic Performance ◽

Power Structures ◽

Labor Conditions ◽

Academic Power ◽

Embodied Experiences ◽

Precarious Labor ◽

Collective Empowerment ◽

Voice And Silence

In this dialogue, authors collectively reflect upon their experiences of being feminist philosophers. They diffract their personal and embodied experiences, philosophical reflections, and critiques of institutions in order to consider how and where a “vulnerable academic performance” is possible. In particular, the authors address matters of voice and silence within academia by asking the following questions: How are voices distributed and materialized in academia? Whose voice is heard and listened to vis-à-vis exisiting philosophical canons, classifications, and regimes of citationality? Bringing to the fore both personal and affective registers, the authors address the standards of legitimacy, hierarchies of voices and precarious labor conditions in academia as factors that render voices un/heard. With this in mind, they suggest a move towards vulnerability as a potent source of collective empowerment that is capable of disturbing academic power structures and canons.

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