Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Producing Pleasure in the Contemporary University pp 25–36Cite as

‘Do What Sustains You’

Desire and the Enterprise University

  • Chapter

Part of the book series: Bold Visions in Educational Research ((BVER))

Abstract

Academics live in strange times. Everywhere we are coded and constructed within the machine of the enterprise university to faithfully produce high quality research outputs and secure competitive external research funding grants. We are counted and graded, chopped up and classified, found to be acceptable (or otherwise) within the logical bounds of a system that rewards entrepreneurial and innovative research that secures large grants and is published in high-ranked research journals.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   37.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Ball, S. (2012). Performativity, commodification and commitment: an I-spy guide to the neoliberal university. British Journal of Educational Studies, 60(1), 17–28. doi: 10.1080/ 00071005.2011.650940

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bansel, P., Davies, B., Gannon, S., & Linnell, S. (2008). Technologies of audit at work on the writing subject: a discursive analysis. Studies in Higher Education, 33(6), 673–683. doi: 10.1080/03075070802457017

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Buchanan, I. (2008). Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: A reader’s guide. London: Continuum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Colebrook, C. (2014). Sex after life: Essays on extinction, Vol 2. Ann Arbor, MI: Open Humanities Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Cupples, J., & Pawson, E. (2012). Giving an account of oneself: The PBRF and the neoliberal university. New Zealand Geographer, 68, 14–23. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-7939.2012.01217.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Davies, B., & Bansel, P. (2005). The time of their lives? Academic workers in neoliberal time(s). Health Sociology Review, 14(1), 47–58. doi:10.5172/hesr.14.1.47

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Davies, B., & Bansel, P. (2010). Governmentality and academic work: shaping the hearts and minds of academic workers. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 26(3), 5–20.

    Google Scholar 

  • Davies, B., & Petersen, E. B. (2005). Intellectual workers (un)doing neoliberal discourse. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 13, 32–54.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deleuze, G. (1997). Essays critical and clinical (D. Smith & M. A. Greco, Trans.). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1983). Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (R. Hurley, M. Seem, & H. R. Lane, Trans.). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1986). Kafka: toward a minor literature (D. Polan, Trans.). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (B. Massumi, Trans.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deleuze, G., & Parnet, C. (2002). Dialogues II (H. Tomlinson & B. Habberjam, Trans.). London: Continuum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Evans, R. (2016). Achieving and evidencing research ‘impact’? Tensions and dilemmas from an ethic of care perspective. Area, 48(2), 213–221. doi:10.1111/area.12256

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ferguson, J. (2009). The uses of neoliberalism. Antipode, 41(1), 166–184. doi:10.1111/j.1467- 8330.2009.00721.x

    Google Scholar 

  • Honan, E., Henderson, L., & Loch, S. (2015). Producing moments of pleasure within the confines of an academic quantified self. Creative Approaches to Research, 8(3), 44–62.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kelly, F. (2015). A day in the life (and death) of a public university. Higher Education Research & Development, 34(6), 1153–1163. doi:10.1080/07294360.2015.1024628

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lather, P., & St. Pierre, E. A. (2013). Post-qualtitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 26(6), 629–633. doi: 10.1080/09518398.2013.7887520

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lynch, K. (2015). Control by numbers: new managerialism and ranking in higher education. Critical Studies in Education, 56(2), 190–207. doi:10.1080/17508487.2014.949811

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marginson, S., & Considine, M. (2000). The enterprise university: Power, governance and reinvention in Australia. Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Meyerhoff, E., Johnson, E., & Braun, B. (2011). Time and the university. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 10(3), 483-507.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mountz, A., Bonds, A., Mansfield, B., Loyd, J., Hyndman, J., Walton-Roberts, M., … Curran, W. (2015). For slow scholarship: a feminist politics of resistance through collective action in the neoliberal university. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 14(4), 1235– 1259.

    Google Scholar 

  • Petersen, E. B. (2009). Resistance and enrolment in the enterprise university: an ethnodrama in three acts, with appended reading. Journal of Education Policy, 24(4), 409–422. doi:10.1080/02680930802669953

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Petersen, E. B. (2011). Staying or going? Australian early career researchers’ narratives of academic work, exit options and coping strategies. Australian Universities’ Review, 53(2), 34–42.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shore, C. (2008). Audit culture and Illiberal governance Universities and the politics of accountability. Anthropological Theory, 8(3), 278–298. doi: 10.1177/1463499608093815

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ulmer, J. B. (2016). Writing slow ontology. Qualitative Inquiry. doi:10.1177/1077800416643994

    Google Scholar 

  • Vostal, F. (2015). Academic life in the fast lane: The experience of time and speed in British academia. Time and Society, 24(1), 71–95. doi: 10.1177/0961463X13517537

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    Stewart Riddle

Authors
  1. Stewart Riddle
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    Stewart Riddle

  2. University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    Marcus K. Harmes

  3. University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    Patrick Alan Danaher

  4. Central Queensland University, Australia

    Patrick Alan Danaher

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2017 Sense Publishers

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Riddle, S. (2017). ‘Do What Sustains You’. In: Riddle, S., Harmes, M.K., Danaher, P.A. (eds) Producing Pleasure in the Contemporary University. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-179-7_3

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-179-7_3

  • Publisher Name: SensePublishers, Rotterdam

  • Online ISBN: 978-94-6351-179-7

  • eBook Packages: EducationEducation (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation