Everyone is fed, bathed, asleep, and I have made it through another day: Problematizing accommodation, resilience, and care in the neoliberal academy | Zendy

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Everyone is fed, bathed, asleep, and I have made it through another day: Problematizing accommodation, resilience, and care in the neoliberal academy

Author(s) -

SimardGag Laurence

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

the canadian geographer / le géographe canadien

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35

H-Index - 46

eISSN - 1541-0064

pISSN - 0008-3658

DOI - 10.1111/cag.12274

Subject(s) - accommodation , autonomy , neoliberalism (international relations) , resilience (materials science) , context (archaeology) , normative , ideal (ethics) , sociology , face (sociological concept) , psychological resilience , political science , competition (biology) , political economy , social psychology , law , psychology , social science , physics , ecology , biology , thermodynamics , paleontology , neuroscience

Key Messages Current models of accommodation in academia fail to challenge liberal normative ideals of individuated autonomy and functionality and neoliberal imperatives of competition. In a neoliberal context, upholding resilience as an ideal in the face of adversity individualizes hardships and adds to the strain of struggling individuals. As academics we need to articulate and perform a radically different and subversive type of care centred upon relationality and inter‐dependency.

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