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Reckoning up: sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university

Phipps, Alison (2020) Reckoning up: sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university. Gender and Education, 32 (2). pp. 227-243.

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Abstract

This paper situates sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university. Using data from a ‘composite ethnography’ representing twelve years of research, I argue that institutional inaction on these issues reflects how they are ‘reckoned up’ in the context of gender and other structures. The impact of disclosure is projected in market terms: this produces institutional airbrushing which protects both the institution and those (usually privileged men) whose welfare is bound up with its success. Staff and students are differentiated by power/value relations, which interact with gender and intersecting categories. Survivors are often left with few alternatives to speaking out in the ‘outrage economy’ of the corporate media: however, this can support institutional airbrushing and bolster punitive technologies. I propose the method of Grounded Action Inquiry, implemented with attention to Lorde’s work on anger, as a parrhesiastic practice of ‘speaking in’ to the neoliberal institution.

Item Type: Article
Status: Published
DOI: doi10.1080/09540253.2018.1482413
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
School/Department: School of Humanities
URI: https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/12625

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