What is it about?
Succeeding in academia today involves living up to increasingly standardised performance criteria. Living up to these criteria is a prerequisite for being perceived as 'excellent' and for achieving a permanent position. The article explores how academics are expected to invest their whole self in their work, and how this, for the academics, involves struggles to unite what they really want to do, with what they ought to do. The paper explores how these demands and struggles play a role in upholding inequality.
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Why is it important?
Understanding the role of passionate attachment to work in the production of social inequality, is increasingly important in sectors characterised temporary/fixed term employment as well as harsh competition.
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This page is a summary of: Passion, care, and eros in the gendered neoliberal university, Organization, October 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1350508418805283.
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