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The ‚performative university‘ between ‚targets‘, ‚terror‘ and resistance. This new special issue of the journal Management Learning is out now (online first).<\/p>\n

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This special issue assembles eight papers which provide insights into the working lives of early career to more senior academics, from several different countries. The first common theme which emerges is around the predominance of \u2018targets\u2019, enacting aspects of quantification and the ideal of perfect control and fabrication. The second theme is about the ensuing precarious evocation of \u2018terror\u2019 impacting on mental well-being, albeit enacted in diverse ways. Furthermore, several papers highlight a particular type of response, beyond complicity to \u2018take freedom back\u2019 (the third theme). This freedom is used to assert an emerging parallel form of resistance over time, from overt, planned, institutional collective representation towards more informal, post-recognition forms of collaborative, covert, counter spaces (both virtually and physically). Such resistance is underpinned by a collective care, generosity and embrace of vulnerability, whereby a reflexive collegiality is enacted. We feel that these emergent practices should encourage senior management, including vice-chancellors, to rethink performative practices. Situating the papers in the context of the current coronavirus crisis, they point towards new forms of seeing and organising which open up, rather than close down, academic freedom to unleash collaborative emancipatory power so as to contribute to the public and ecological good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Link to the journal: The Performative University: \u2018Targets\u2019, \u2018Terror\u2019 and \u2018Taking Back Freedom\u2019 in Academia – David R Jones, Max Visser, Peter Stokes, Anders \u00d6rtenblad, Rosemary Deem, Peter Rodgers, Shlomo Y Tarba,<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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