Beyond individualism: the psychosocial life of the neoliberal university

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Gill, Rosalind. 2018. Beyond individualism: the psychosocial life of the neoliberal university. In: Marc Spooner and James McNinch, eds. Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education. Regina, Canada: University of Regina Press, pp. 193-216. ISBN 9780889775367 [Book Section]

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In this chapter I will draw together some of the themes of current research and writing on the university highlighting contemporary concerns about precarious employment, working hours, and surveillance and audit cultures. I want to raise some critical questions, returning to my original interests in the psychic life of neoliberalism - in particular its individualism. I will make three brief arguments: first arguing against individualization and calling for a collective struggle and resistance; secondly, calling for an expanded notion of precariousness that can speak to the multiplicity of ways in which precarity operates in the neoliberal University; and thirdly and relatedly discussing what I will call 'difficult solidarities' - particularly the need to work collectively across differences and to resist the pressures towards competition and division.

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