Navigating the Marketized University: The Case of Queer Studies Researchers in Education

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 1
  In Roundtable Session: Queer Critiques of Institutions and the Status Quo

Abstract

The dynamics of the marketized university legitimize certain hegemonic fields, while relegating to the margins emergent, critical and innovative approaches that challenge the dominant knowledge. Centering the analysis on Queer scholarship in education, we analyze how academics navigate the marketized university, and how and to what extent they struggle to generate individual and collective strategies and spaces of resistance and contestation. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 14 researchers from 11 Spanish universities, we first identify the main obstacles for Queer scholarship, to later explore both the spaces of resistance and the undertaken strategies to navigate the dynamics of the marketized academia in the hope to ultimately subvert ‘the dominant notion of the natural.’ (Case, 1991, p. 3).

Authors

• Alejandro Caravaca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

• Mauro Moschetti, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

• Ingrid Agud, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona