可见的职场妈妈戏剧:从优秀到“足够好”的学术界和(M)其他

IF 4.5 2区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS
Michaela Edwards, Maranda Ridgway, Gwen Chen, Emily Cooper, Sarah Pass
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新自由主义的、不稳定的、解剖化的、以审计为中心的学术界给女性学者带来了不公平的负担。像许多其他组织形式一样,学术界也需要不健康。本文认为,在加剧像我们这样的母性学者的斗争的同时,疫情也使我们变得可见,迫使身体主体进入人们的视野,并在这样做的过程中,对学术界的“解剖冲动”提供了一些(尽管很小)阻力。在讨论了代理可见性之后,我们提出了代理不可见性的概念,并相应讨论了大流行期间代理不可见性的损失。我们认为,我们不能再选择展示优秀的东西,或者故意隐瞒不好的东西。参与代理可见性和不可见性策略变得非常困难,这有很多缺点,包括失去阈限空间和我们私人生活中的困难突然被展示出来。然而,我们选择关注的是一个更有爱心的未来。通过唐纳德·温尼科特(Donald Winnicott)的工作,我们认为,疫情造成的困难,有时甚至是痛苦的空间,迫使我们拒绝卓越,接受“足够好”作为一种应该受到尊重的存在方式。在本文中,我们促进了关于大流行期间在家工作的母亲使用的改革的订购模式的讨论。虽然我们不能也不会为别人说话,但我们利用自己作为育儿学者的双重角色,为那些继续被学术界边缘化的人,以及那些只是寻求与学术界更平衡接触的人,说明更广泛的问题。我们寻求对所有人的“足够好”的接受,无论是当权者还是彼此。
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(In)visible Working Mama Drama: From Excellent to ‘Good Enough’ Academia and (M)Others

The neoliberal, precarious, anatomized and audit-centric academy produces an unfair burden on women academics. Academia, like many other organizational forms, demands unwellness. This paper argues that as well as intensifying the struggles of mothering academics like us, the pandemic also rendered us visible, forcing the body subject into view and, in doing so, offering some (albeit small) resistance to the ‘anatomizing urge’ in academia. Following discussions on agentic visibility, we propose the idea of agentic invisibility and a corresponding discussion of its loss during the pandemic. We argue that we could no longer choose to showcase what was excellent or to deliberately conceal what was not. Engaging in agentic visibility and invisibility tactics became very difficult, and this had many downsides, including the loss of liminal spaces and the difficulties in our private lives that were suddenly on display. What we choose to focus on, though, is a more caring future. Through the work of Donald Winnicott, we suggest that the difficult and sometimes painful spaces created by the pandemic forced us to reject excellence and to accept the ‘good enough’ as a way of being that should be respected. In this paper, we contribute to discussions concerning the reformative mode of ordering used by home-working mothers during the pandemic. Though we cannot and will not speak for others, we use our dual roles as mothering academics to illustrate broader problems for others who continue to be marginalized by academia and for those who simply seek a more balanced engagement with academia. We seek an acceptance of the ‘good enough’ for all people, from those in power and from each other.

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期刊介绍: The British Journal of Management provides a valuable outlet for research and scholarship on management-orientated themes and topics. It publishes articles of a multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary nature as well as empirical research from within traditional disciplines and managerial functions. With contributions from around the globe, the journal includes articles across the full range of business and management disciplines. A subscription to British Journal of Management includes International Journal of Management Reviews, also published on behalf of the British Academy of Management.
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