Peer-Reviewed Journal Details
Mandatory Fields
O’ Hagan, C. O’Connor, P. Myers, EM, Baisner, L, Apostolov, G. Topuzova, I. Saglamer, G. Tan MG & Çağlayan, H.
2019
October
Critical Studies in Education
Perpetuating academic capitalism and maintaining gender orders through career practices in STEM in universities
Published
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Optional Fields
academic capitalism; career practices; gender order; gender effect; STEM; universities.
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Academic capitalism is an outcome of the interplay between neoliberalism, globalisation, markets and universities. Universities have embraced the commercialisation of knowledge, technology transfer and research funding as well as introducing performance and audit practices. Academic capitalism has become internalised as a regulatory mechanism by academics who attempt to accumulate academic capital. Universities are traditionally gendered organisations, reflecting the societal gender order. Despite fears

regarding the feminisation of the academy, the embrace of academic

capitalism is contributing to its re-masculinisation and

exercises an incidental gender effect. Practicing is the means by

which the gender order is constituted at work. Three practices in

which academics engage are examined as exemplars of the way

academics increase their academic capital stock in Science,

Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) faculties in four

European universities, in Bulgaria, Denmark, Ireland and Turkey.

These practices tend to be more achievable and likely to be

engaged in by men, thus, career practices are the mechanism

through which the gender effect of academic capitalism is

achieved, academic capitalism perpetuated and the gender order

maintained in STEM in academia.
10.1080/17508487.2016.1238403
Grant Details
EC Directorate General for Research and Innovation Grant number 287526