Phipps, Alison (2020) Reckoning up: sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university. Gender and Education, 32 (2). pp. 227-243. ISSN 0954-0253
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Abstract
This paper situates sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university. Using data from a ‘composite ethnography’ representing twelve years of research, I argue that institutional inaction on these issues reflects how they are ‘reckoned up’ in the context of gender and other structures. The impact of disclosure is projected in market terms: this produces institutional airbrushing which protects both the institution and those (usually privileged men) whose welfare is bound up with its success. Staff and students are differentiated by power/value relations, which interact with gender and intersecting categories. Survivors are often left with few alternatives to speaking out in the ‘outrage economy’ of the corporate media: however, this can support institutional airbrushing and bolster punitive technologies. I propose the method of Grounded Action Inquiry, implemented with attention to Lorde’s work on anger, as a parrhesiastic practice of ‘speaking in’ to the neoliberal institution.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | sexual violence, sexual harassment, neoliberalism, gender, higher education, power, intersectionality |
Schools and Departments: | School of Law, Politics and Sociology > Sociology |
Research Centres and Groups: | Centre for Gender Studies |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology > HM0826 Social institutions H Social Sciences > HQ The Family. Marriage. Women H Social Sciences > HQ The Family. Marriage. Women > HQ1101 Women. Feminism L Education L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher education |
Depositing User: | Alison Phipps |
Date Deposited: | 29 May 2018 13:18 |
Last Modified: | 12 Aug 2020 11:15 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/76205 |
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📧 Request an updateProject Name | Sussex Project Number | Funder | Funder Ref |
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Gender and Institutional Culture | G1703 | Imperial College | Unset |
Universities Supporting Victims of Sexual Violence (USVSV) | G1893 | EUROPEAN UNION | JUST/2014/RDAP/AG/VICT/7401 |
Research into campus culture and the experiences of women students in higher education | G0985 | NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS | LB-1760 |