Mobbing in the Academy, an International Perspective: Finding Spiritual Self-Care Amid a Pandemic

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session problematizes issues of academic power. This power, manifested in mobbing, constrains the personal/professional lives of social justice professors. The panelists represent an interdisciplinary and international cohort of counter-hegemonic voices. We use an interdisciplinary conceptual framework to empower, heal, and make meaning making of our experiences. We use self-study methodology to (re)present a variety of autoethnographic texts to illuminate the workings of mobbing as a form of maintaining hegemony and white supremacy within the academy. This panel represents our courage to self-care amid the global pandemic that is COVID-19 and work from within during the uprisings of summer 2020 to problematize problems within academe to shift paradigms toward more egalitarian policies and practices.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Spirituality & Education

Chair

• David Isaac Hernandez-Saca, University of Northern Iowa

Papers

• Resisting/Yearning for a Pedagogy of Love in Academia: A Collective Self-Study of Academic Mobbing - David Isaac Hernandez-Saca, University of Northern Iowa

• Living Among the Ruins: Disrupting the Mob - Jennifer L. Martin, University of Illinois at Springfield

• Accounts of Participation in a Higher Education Research Group: Between Academic Pimping and Academic Mobbing? - Igor Vinicius Lima Valentim, University of Lisbon

• Doing Disability Studies: A Duoethnography Exploring the Possibilities and Limitations for Praxis in Schools of Education - Emily A. Nusbaum, Mills College