Overview
- Editors:
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Stewart Riddle
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University of Southern Queensland, Australia
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Marcus K. Harmes
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University of Southern Queensland, Australia
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Patrick Alan Danaher
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University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Central Queensland University, Australia
- This book takes up the question of pleasure within the contemporary university in generative and productive ways, from a range of empirical and methodological traditions.
- The chapters show how researchers can rupture the bounds of what is permissible and possible in their daily lives as academics working in different settings.
- The contributors bring rich perspectives on academic life from a wide range of higher education institutions and countries.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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- Marcus K. Harmes, Patrick Alan Danaher, Stewart Riddle
Pages 1-12
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- Jennifer Charteris, Adele Nye, Marguerite Jones
Pages 49-64
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- Sarah Loch, Linda Henderson, Eileen Honan
Pages 65-79
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- Cecily Jensen-Clayton, Rena Macleod
Pages 81-94
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- Alison L. Black, Gail Crimmins, Janice K. Jones
Pages 137-155
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- Andrew Hickey, Robyn Henderson
Pages 157-169
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- Erich C. Fein, Rahul Ganguly, Thomas Banhazi, Patrick Alan Danaher
Pages 171-184
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- Kathryn Gilbey, Tracey Bunda
Pages 185-199
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- Susanne Gannon, Jo Lampert
Pages 201-211
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- Judy Gouwens, Kenneth P. King
Pages 213-227
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- Samuel Davies, Patrick Alan Danaher
Pages 229-241
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Back Matter
Pages 255-257
About this book
Academics working in contemporary universities are experiencing unprecedented and unsustainable pressure in an environment of hyper-performativity, metrics and accountability. From this perspective, the university produces multiple tensions and moments of crises, where it seems that there is limited space left for the intrinsic enjoyment arising from scholarly practices. This book offers a global perspective on how pleasure is central to the endeavours of academics working in the contemporary university, with contributors evaluating the opportunities for the strategic refusal of the quantifying, stultifying and stupefying delimiters of what is possible for academic production. The aim of this book is to open up spaces for conversation, reflection and thought, in order to think, to be and to do differently – pleasurably. Contributors rupture the bounds of what is permissible and possible within their daily lives, habits and practices. As such, this book addresses increasingly significant questions. What are some of the multiple and different ways that we can reclaim pleasure and enhance the durations and intensities of our passions, desires and becomings within the contemporary university? How might these aspirations be realised? What are the spaces for the pleasurable production of research that might be opened up? How might we reconfigure the neoliberal university to be a place of more affect, where desire, laughter and joy join with the work that we seek to undertake and the communities whom we serve?
