Anxious academics: Talking back to the audit culture through collegial, critical and creative autoethnography

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dc.citation.issue2
dc.citation.volume24
dc.contributor.authorRuth DW
dc.contributor.authorWilson S
dc.contributor.authorAlakavuklar O
dc.contributor.authorDickson A
dc.date.available2018
dc.date.issued2018-03-15
dc.description.abstractOur New Zealand university recently required us to produce portfolios for a research evaluation process. At a presentation promoting and explaining the process we raised questions and objections. Pointlessly, it seemed. But we continued to rail and rant about it. One of us set in motion the following discussion, presented here as a series of critical and creative autoethnographic responses. We have resisted, with some anxiety, the urge and the expectation to theorise our experiences or to situate them within 'the literature'. Our proposition is that 'giving voice' in the manner in which we have done so is an affective means of 'talking back' against neoliberal regimes of performativity which may also be effective as a form of localised resistance, strengthening our ability to cope with the anxiety such regimes provoke. We hope our efforts encourage others to develop critical, creative and collegial responses to academic audit regimes.
dc.description.publication-statusPublished
dc.format.extent154 - 170
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dc.identifier.citationCULTURE AND ORGANIZATION, 2018, 24 (2), pp. 154 - 170
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14759551.2017.1380644
dc.identifier.eissn1477-2760
dc.identifier.elements-id282653
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn1475-9551
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relation.isPartOfCULTURE AND ORGANIZATION
dc.relation.replaceshttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10698
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dc.relation.replaceshttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10883
dc.relation.replaces123456789/10883
dc.relation.replaceshttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10884
dc.relation.replaces123456789/10884
dc.subjectAcademic anxiety
dc.subjectaudit culture
dc.subjectperformativity
dc.subjectcritical auto-ethnography
dc.subjectcollegiality
dc.titleAnxious academics: Talking back to the audit culture through collegial, critical and creative autoethnography
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of People, Enviroment and Planning
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/Massey Business School
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/Massey Business School/School of Management
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