Critical Storytelling: Experiences of Power Abuse in Academia

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52094-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

Reihe: Critical Storytelling

What does power abuse look and feel like in the academic world? How does it affect university faculty, students, education and research? What can we do to counteract and prevent power abuse? These questions are addressed in this collection of autobiographical poems, essays and illustrations about academia. The contributors reflect on individual experiences as well as underlying institutional structures, providing original perspectives on bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination, and other forms of power abuse in academic workplaces. They share their stories in order to break the culture of silence around power abuse in academia and point out pathways for constructive change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hansen, Julie

Nilsson, Ingela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 The Same Old Story? An Introduction

Julie Hansen and Ingela Nilsson

2 The Polyphony of Academia

Ingela Nilsson

3 What My CV Doesn’t Tell You

Julie Hansen

4 Notes from the Margins of Academic Life

Anonymous 1

5 A Decisive Meeting in Department X

Dinah Wouters, Tim Noens, Thomas Velle and Anonymous 2

6 Phantom Libraries: Unspoken Words, Untold Stories and Unwritten Texts

Moa Ekbom

7 On the Occasion of My Retirement

Cecilia Mörner

8 How to Be a Professor in the Twenty-First Century

Wim Verbaal

9 Bad Days

Anonymous 3

10 On Diversity Workshops: Challenges and Opportunities

Kai Dowding, Hanna McGinnis and Ana Núñez

11 Still a World to Win

Anonymous 4

12 Fragments of Missed Opportunities: Or Unrealized Dialectical Exchanges with a Mentor

Anonymous 5

13 Flexing Muscles

Ingela Nilsson

14 Lessons I Learned at University

Ricarda Schier

15 Benevolence or Bitterness

Antony Smith

16 Observations from a Non-Academic on Academic Life

Ken Robertson

17 Harassment and Abuse of Power from a Global Perspective: Or the Importance of a Conversation

Anonymous 6

18 What My Younger Self Would Have Said, Had She Spoken up, and How My Present Self Would Have Replied

Ingela Nilsson

19 The Ghosts of Academia

Veronika Muchitsch

20 The Unbearable Shame of Crying at Work

Anonymous 7

21 Panic Button 111

Ingela Nilsson

22 Quit

Thomas Oles

23 Diving Deeper: The Redemptive Power of Metaphor

Helen Sword

Epilogue: The Privilege of Writing One’s Story and Reading Those of Others

Ingela Nilsson

Epilogue: Gathering Voices for a Better Academic Workplace

Julie Hansen

Über Autor(innen)

Julie Hansen Ph.D. (2000), University of Michigan, is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages at Uppsala University. She has taught comparative literature, Slavic literatures and translation studies. Her research interests include memory studies and literary multilingualism. She is co-editor of the volume Living through Literature: Essays in Memory of Omry Ronen (Uppsala Studies on Eastern Europe, 2019).

Ingela Nilsson, Ph.D. (2001), Gothenburg University, is Professor of Greek and Byzantine Studies at Uppsala University since 2010. Her research interests include all forms of narration and literary adaptation. Her most recent monograph is Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses (CUP, 2021).