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Troubling intra-actions: gender, neo-liberalism and research in the global academy

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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:12 authored by Louise Morley
This article raises questions about gender in the neo-liberalised research economy. Theoretically, it includes Barad’s concept of intra-action to analyse how discursive-material differences between research winners and losers are created and sustained. Empirically, it draws on international research conducted at British Council seminars onAbsent Talent: Women in Research and Academic Leadership. I examine how neo-liberal policy cultures of financialisation and market values are entangled in research processes, management, and academic identities. I discuss the intra-actions or mingling of knowledge capitalism, research as a vehicle for surveillance and performance management, the affective economy, gendered maldistributions of opportunity structures and academic identities. I argue that research is increasingly instrumentalised as a major relay of power in the construction and destruction of academic identities, with material and affective consequences. The paper poses questions about how disqualifications are constituted and reproduced via a range of intra-actions including research financialisation and its impact on academic identities and the under-representation of women as research leaders in the global academy.

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  • Published

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Journal

Journal of Education Policy

ISSN

0268-0939

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

3

Volume

23

Page range

1-18

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  • Education Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-11-16

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2015-12-04

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