Autor según el artículo: Gil-Juárez A

Departamento: Psicologia

Autor/es de la URV: Gil Juárez, Adriana

Palabras clave: Technologies of the self Technologies of power New managerialism New academic subjectivities Life stories Biographical methods

Resumen: © 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.

Áreas temáticas: 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

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 01345486

Direcció de correo del autor: adriana.gil@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-2170-4117

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-06-17

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/10/267

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Social Sciences. 8 (10):

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Gil-Juárez A (2019). A tale of two subjectivities: An academic life story. Social Sciences, 8(10), -. DOI: 10.3390/socsci8100267

DOI del artículo: 10.3390/socsci8100267

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2019

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications