Neoliberal performativity in higher education: ethical dilemmas encountered when reporting on the lived experience of women living in drought-affected regions

Gail Crimmins; Sarah Casey; Joanna Mcintyre

doi:10.1080/09540253.2020.1849572

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Neoliberal performativity in higher education: ethical dilemmas encountered when reporting on the lived experience of women living in drought-affected regions

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Neoliberal performativity in higher education: ethical dilemmas encountered when reporting on the lived experience of women living in drought-affected regions

Gail Crimmins, Sarah Casey and Joanna Mcintyre

Gender and Education, Vol.33(6), pp.757-772

2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2020.1849572

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Neoliberalism

prudentialism

droughtaffected community

As researchers working within a neoliberalist academic regime propagated by discourses of responsibilisation, risk and prudentialism, we experienced a dilemma about whether to publicly present views expressed by research participants that critiqued the policy position of the government department that funded the research. Our dilemma was exacerbated because research funding is relatively difficult to attain for women academics. However, in recognising that rural women’s voices are often marginalised in rural policy formation, and to maintain our ethical responsibility to these participants, in this article we share these potentially contentious research findings and in doing so problematise neoliberal strictures that can erode individual researcher autonomy and that of universities as independent agents.

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Title: Neoliberal performativity in higher education: ethical dilemmas encountered when reporting on the lived experience of women living in drought-affected regions
Authors: Gail Crimmins (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Sarah Casey (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Joanna Mcintyre (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Publication details: Gender and Education, Vol.33(6), pp.757-772
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2020.1849572
ISSN: 1360-0516
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99490007802621
Output Type: Journal article

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