Muriel Côte
Biträdande universitetslektor
Discomforts in the academy: from ‘academic burnout’ to collective mobilisation
Författare
Summary, in English
As part of a set of interventions on discomfort feminism, this article addresses how the politics of discomfort informs boundary work in the neoliberalized academic workplace in Switzerland. Departing from the authors’ engagements in a series of workshops on new forms of stress and pressure in academia and the effects of the deteriorating conditions of labor at their department, this article explores multiple and unevenly distributed emotions of discomfort generated by and through the workshops. We discuss discomfort as an affective orienting device that betrays the normative social space and the crossing of the personal-professional boundary in the academic workplace. This article explores the potentials and pitfalls of ‘staying with’ discomfort, rather than attempting to return within a comfort zone. We argue such affective politics can inform change in the neoliberalized workplace by reworking normative boundaries and helping mobilize different academic collectivities, ones based on care and shared vulnerability.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi
Publiceringsår
2023
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
574-587
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Gender, Place, and Culture
Volym
30
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Routledge
Ämne
- Other Social Sciences
Nyckelord
- Academia
- affect
- discomfort
- mental health
- neoliberal workplace
- psychological distress
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0966-369X