Academics anonymous: Blogging and feminist ‘be/longings’ in the neoliberal university

Briony Lipton

doi:10.4324/9781315200859-4

Academics anonymous: Blogging and feminist ‘be/longings’ in the neoliberal university

Briony Lipton^*

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the ways that anonymous shared blog sites Academic Men Explain Things to Me, Academia is Killing My Friends, Strategic Misogyny and Sharing Academic Sexism Stories with You (SASSY) are imagined as collective digital spaces, where feminist academics through digital storytelling reinvent and redefine what it means to ‘belong’ in the neoliberal academy. It draws upon the prolific writings of Sara Ahmed and her characterisation of the ‘feminist killjoy’ (2010) and ‘willful subject’ (2014) and Son Vivienne’s ‘everyday activism’ (Vivienne 2016) to explore the way academics sharing their experiences produces a feminist-wilful-killjoy subjectivity that complicates our understanding of belonging on these websites.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Social Beings, Future Belongings
Subtitle of host publication	Reimagining the Social
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	43-58
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351780315
ISBN (Print)	9781315200859
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315200859-4
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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