How are academic lives sustained? Gender and the ethics of care in the neoliberal accelerated academy

Conesa, Ester (2018) How are academic lives sustained? Gender and the ethics of care in the neoliberal accelerated academy. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (27 Mar 2018). Website.

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Intensifying work demands under "new managerial" practices are changing academics' experiences. In this environment, how are academic lives sustained? Which model of science are we engaging in? And what part does gender play? Ester Conesa explores how existing gender biases in the academy are exacerbated by caring work - still mostly taken on by women - not being properly valued but instead understood as a burden. The idealised academic is ready to devote an entire life to work, even in precarious conditions, with scant regard for how lives are sustained materially, emotionally, or in the family. An “ethics of care” perspective places caring responsibilities back at the centre of academic life.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited:	04 Jul 2018 10:19
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 06:43
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/89033

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