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A tale of two subjectivities: An academic life story

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    Identifier: imarina:6029516
    Authors:
    Gil-Juarez, Adriana
    Abstract:
    © 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.
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    Author, as appears in the article.: Gil-Juarez, Adriana
    Department: Psicologia
    URV's Author/s: Gil Juárez, Adriana
    Keywords: Technologies of the self Technologies of power New managerialism New academic subjectivities Life stories Biographical methods
    Abstract: © 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.
    Thematic Areas: 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
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 01345486
    Author's mail: adriana.gil@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0002-2170-4117
    Record's date: 2024-06-22
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/10/267
    Papper original source: Social Sciences. 8 (10): 267-
    APA: Gil-Juarez, Adriana (2019). A tale of two subjectivities: An academic life story. Social Sciences, 8(10), 267-. DOI: 10.3390/socsci8100267
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Article's DOI: 10.3390/socsci8100267
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2019
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Social Sciences (Miscellaneous),Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
    Technologies of the self
    Technologies of power
    New managerialism
    New academic subjectivities
    Life stories
    Biographical methods
    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
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