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Compliance and Resistance Within Neoliberal Academia : Biographical Stories, Collective Voices
this chapter outlines our collaborative research and writing project which recounts personal stories regarding everyday survival in theneoliberal academia. It begins by depicting the characteristics of academic neoliberal regime, such as authoritarian managerialism, accountability processes, standardization measures, performance indicators and benchmarking achievement audits. As previous research shows, neoliberalism impacts the everydaylives and wellbeing of academics, prompting us to take a deeper exploration of academic selves. The chapter then goes on to describe our methodology, collaborative autoethnography, introducing the advantages and disadvantages of personal stories as a research method.It ends by outlining our working method, exploring how we collectively wrote, shared, discussed and relected on our texts.
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