Autor segons l'article: Gil-Juarez, Adriana
Departament: Psicologia
Autor/s de la URV: Gil Juárez, Adriana
Paraules clau: Technologies of the self Technologies of power New managerialism New academic subjectivities Life stories Biographical methods
Resum: © 2019 by the authors. In this article I present an autobiographical account as someone who has been an academic in both Mexico and Spain for the last thirty years. My life story shows the transition from a life centred on an academic project to a life centred on mere survival in the system. These are two subjectivities that do not neatly appear consecutively but that are intertwined. The first starts from the traditional but exciting idea that an academic career must progress linearly to the achievement of a solid and stable identity, with a permanent contract as a symbolic and material destination. The second subjectivity, which starts from neo-liberalism demanding permanent mobilization, constant change, and absolute flexibility, is accompanied by pain and resignation, as precarity has already occupied the greatest part of my academic life. The story has the modest mission of exemplifying, in the flesh, without hiding class and gender marks, the neo-liberal transformation of the academy and its inhabitants. Yet it is also an example of how difficult it can be to resist this dynamic, given that we, the teaching and research staff, are more or less forced accomplices of this transformation. I write this narrative in the hope that the story may help others to visualize and plan a different future for academia and for themselves: a future based on more engaged personal relationships and built on an ethics of care which can help resist injustice, as feminist literature suggests.
Àrees temàtiques: Sociology Social statistics and informatics Social sciences, interdisciplinary Social sciences (miscellaneous) Social sciences (all) Psychology Psicología Political sciences and international relations Media studies and communication Linguistics Linguística e literatura Law Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences Interdisciplinar Human geography and urban studies History & philosophy of science History General social sciences Gender studies Engenharias iii Economics Cultural studies Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Anthropology
Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 01345486
Adreça de correu electrònic de l'autor: adriana.gil@urv.cat
Identificador de l'autor: 0000-0002-2170-4117
Data d'alta del registre: 2024-06-22
Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enllaç font original: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/10/267
Referència a l'article segons font original: Social Sciences. 8 (10): 267-
Referència de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Gil-Juarez, Adriana (2019). A tale of two subjectivities: An academic life story. Social Sciences, 8(10), 267-. DOI: 10.3390/socsci8100267
URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
DOI de l'article: 10.3390/socsci8100267
Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Any de publicació de la revista: 2019
Tipus de publicació: Journal Publications