Gender equity in academic knowledge production: the influence of politics, power and precarity

IF 2.4 2区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH European Educational Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-09-15 DOI:10.1177/14749041241277932
Barbara Read
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This paper explores the issue of gender, intersecting with other aspects of identity, in relation to academic staff and academic knowledge production in higher education institutions across Europe. The paper argues for the need to go beyond the ‘topline’ figures regarding gender equity (and intersecting aspects of identity) when considering diversity of academic staff, to a focus on the degree to which academics can meaningfully contribute to knowledge production. Looking across Europe, the paper focuses on a number of factors that are frequently brought up, but not often together, when discussing equity in the academy: gendered discourses of the most valued and legitimate forms of knowledge and the knower; the increasing levels of precarity in the academic workforce; and the growing influence of far right political discourse in Europe and beyond. Drawing on poststructuralist theories of gender, knowledge and precarity, I will be discussing how such dynamics combine to exacerbate already existing inequalities regarding who and what are regarded as legitimate knowledge and legitimate ‘knowers’ in European academia.
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学术知识生产中的性别平等:政治、权力和不稳定性的影响
本文探讨了欧洲高等教育机构中与学术人员和学术知识生产相关的性别问题,以及与身份认同其他方面相关的问题。本文认为,在考虑学术人员的多样性时,有必要超越有关性别平等(以及身份的交叉方面)的 "顶层 "数字,而将重点放在学术人员能够在多大程度上对知识生产做出有意义的贡献上。纵观整个欧洲,本文重点讨论了在讨论学术界的公平问题时经常被提及但又不经常同时被提及的一些因素:关于最有价值、最合法的知识形式和知识者的性别化论述;学术队伍中日益严重的不稳定性;以及极右翼政治言论在欧洲及其他地区日益增长的影响力。我将借鉴后结构主义的性别、知识和不稳定性理论,讨论在欧洲学术界谁和什么被视为合法的知识和合法的 "知识者 "方面,这些动态如何共同加剧了已经存在的不平等。
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European Educational Research Journal
European Educational Research Journal EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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期刊介绍: The European Educational Research Journal (EERJ) is a scientific journal interested in the changing landscape of education research across Europe. Education research increasingly crosses the borders of the national through its subjects of study, scholarly collaborations and references. The EERJ publishes education research papers and special issues which include a reflection on how the European context and other related global or regional dynamics shape their educational research topics. The European Educational Research Journal publishes double-blind peer-reviewed papers in special issues and as individual articles. The EERJ reviews submitted papers on the basis of the quality of their argument, the contemporary nature of their work, and the level of ''speaking'' to the European audience. Policy-makers, administrators and practitioners with an interest in European issues are now invited to subscribe. The EERJ publishes peer reviewed articles, essay reviews and research reports (forms of research intelligence across Europe)
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