Journal
CANADIAN GEOGRAPHER-GEOGRAPHE CANADIEN
Volume 60, Issue 2, Pages 168-180Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cag.12261
Keywords
neoliberalism; higher education; human capital; academic audit systems; anxiety and mental health
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- UBC (Okanagan Campus) Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant Fund
- Rannsoknasjodur Haskolansa Akureyri (University of Akureyri, Iceland)
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This paper presents a theoretical analysis of the neoliberal production of anxiety in academic faculty members in universities in Northern Europe. The paper focuses on neoliberalization as it is instantiated through audit and ranking systems designed to produce academia as a space of economic efficiency and intensifying competition. We suggest that powerful forms of competition and ranking of academic performance have been developed in Northern Europe. These systems are differentiated and differentiating, and they serve to both index and facilitate the neoliberalization of the academy. Moreover, these audit and ranking systems produce an ongoing sense of anxiety among academic workers. We argue that neoliberalism in the academy is part of a wider system of anxiety production arising as part of the so-called soft governance of everything, including life itself, in contemporary late liberalism.
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