Dear all,
We are inviting contributions for the panel "The personal is political?
Emotions and resistance in the neoliberal academy" within the11th Annual
Conference of the Romanian Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology
November 21st-22nd, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Deadline for submission of a 300
words abstract: 28th of Sept
Find below the details for subscriptions. Feel free to contact panel
organizers: Camelia Badea ([log in to unmask]) and Mariya
Ivancheva ([log in to unmask]) if you have further questions.
Regards,
Mariya
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Annual Conference of the Romanian Society for Social and Cultural
Anthropology 2014, 21-22, November 2014
CfP: The personal is political? Emotions and resistance in the neoliberal
academy Babeș-Bolyai University and Romanian Institute for Research on
National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (submission deadline 28th
September 2014)
This round-table willfocus on the emotions developed within the academic
work environment and their subsequent consequences in the form of modes of
embodiment, enactment, organization and resistance.
Over the last decade alarming analyses of the neoliberal turn of higher
education worldwide indicated a decreasing quality of education, and
increasing precarity of the academic profession. The collapse of the
university as a welfare institution too soon after it was even reconfigured
as such in the post-war era, has made academic work shift from doing ‘the
job one loves’ into a continuous struggle. An increasing number of
academics are pressed to the corner having to both stay on top the academic
game, and make ends meet. The financial insecurities and cumulative
deprivations to which both faculty and students have been exposed, has
positioned the majority of these previously privileged group as vulnerable
emotional subjects.
Over the past five years students managed to express their discontent and
anger in one voice as a coagulated body during the student movements
(protests, occupations etc) across the globe and were violently repressed
and punished. The faculty members however, more often than not struggled
individually and with less visible effects and consequences. During these
embodied contestations when resistance was possible the body has still been
subjected to (physical and emotional) sufferings. Faculty members have been
working under the enormous pressure of self-discipline required by the
“publish or perish” imperative, the stratification of the academic
profession into teaching and research-intensive streams, the growing job
insecurity requiring work with flexible contracts and periodic geographical
moves. Exposed to extended working hours blurring the 9-to-5 boundary of
work hours to a 24/7 rhythm of self-exploitation, many of them have
developed psychosomatic symptoms (depression, anxieties, sleeping and
eating disorders).
Yet, have academics managed to turn the personal into political? Has the
neoliberal university become a new terrain that allows creating new modes
of collaboration against advanced capitalism and its way to disrupt
peoples’ lives? This panel is to address the political and social
implications of different types of emotions, and their corresponding bodily
expressions, individuals develop in situations of struggle with precarious
work.
We invite theoretical reflections, critical interventions and/or
(auto)ethnographies that engage with, but are not limited to, the following
questions:
• (How) do emotions influence the production of knowledge and the turn of
politics?
• (How) do precarious and vulnerable individuals build practices of
representation and contestation?
• (How) do the gendered subjectivities matter in opening the space for
resistance?
• (How) can collective emotional subjectivities be built in the new space
of academia?
Paper registration.SASC invites participants to submit online proposals for
presentations following the instructions the link provides
http://socasis.ubbcluj.ro/sasc2014/?page_id=15.
The online registration will be opened until 28th of September 2014.
For questions, please feel free to contact the convenors Camelia Badea (
[log in to unmask]) and Mariya Ivancheva (
[log in to unmask]).
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