A spectre haunting academia: management and masculinities among Chilean universities”

• In Event: La naturaleza cambiante del management

Abstract

Gender and academia in Chile. What we could say about that articulation? A way to address this field starts by its historical conditions of possibility and its political implications which have shaped our academic practices. We talk about feminist conquests within universities, academization of feminisms and the current development of gender studies areas as cornered knowledge. As a background, this scenario, allow us to make sense about current academic practices, in other words, a context where knowledge is still produced and reproduced through an articulation between managerialism and hegemonic masculinities. From that understanding we problematize our local academia considering the organizational practices that constitutes it, from a gender perspective that seeks to reveal its power relations, which in turn, built certain subjectivities. Grasping from officials documents, everyday practices observations and self-interpretations of scholars arise the holy trinity of academic work: teaching, research and extension. Moreover, focus just on this trilogy would less consider its implications; it is relevant to ask not only about social and political logics within academia, fantasmatic ones are also important.

Author

• Marcela Mandiola