The Affective Economy of Feminist Leadership in Finnish Universities: Class-Based Knowledge for Navigating Neoliberalism and Neuroliberalism

Autor/inn/en	Morley, Louise; Lund, Rebecca W. B.
Titel	The Affective Economy of Feminist Leadership in Finnish Universities: Class-Based Knowledge for Navigating Neoliberalism and Neuroliberalism
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 42 (2021) 1, S.114-130 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2020.1855567
Schlagwörter	Feminism; Instructional Leadership; Gender Differences; Women Administrators; College Administration; Intervention; Neoliberalism; Professional Identity; Social Differences; Power Structure; Females; Epistemology; Administrator Attitudes; Universities; Educational Change; Politics of Education; Futures (of Society); Foreign Countries; Sex Fairness; Age Differences; College Faculty; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Feminismus; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Weibliche Führungskraft; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Sozialer Unterschied; Weibliches Geschlecht; Erkenntnistheorie; University; Universität; Bildungsreform; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Future; Society; Zukunft; Ausland; Sexualaufklärung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Fakultät; Finnland
Abstract	Women leaders are frequently treated as one class -- a homogenised group with essentialised skills and competencies in binary relationship to male leaders. We explore how feminist ways of knowing gender and leadership, and circulations of affects, shape women's diverse leadership practices and identities within the neoliberal, and neuroliberal academy in Finland -- a Nordic country with a sophisticated gender equality policy architecture. We debate the (re)production of social and material inequalities through epistemic injustice by exploring what possibilities are emerging from the assemblages and relational potential of policy interventions, global speaking back to patriarchal power, the revisioning of gender, and the inclusion of women in higher education leadership. Theoretically, the study intersects feminist affect notions, neoliberalism, neuroliberalism, and epistemic inclusion/injustice. We conducted 10 interviews with middle-classed women university leaders in five universities. They described how, in the absence of possibilities to facilitate major structural changes, they applied their feminist knowledge and invested affective labour in the mediation of neoliberal and neuroliberal cultures. The politics of representation -- counting more women into neoliberal universities, as one class, is not, we conclude, a counter-normative force. We need to consider how to apply feminist knowledge for leading post-gender universities and imagining alternative futurities. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01