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Kouritzin, Erica Kolomic, Taylor Ellis, & Satoru Nakagawa University of Manitoba  \nAbstract  \nA significant emerging body of research examines the conditions and impacts of neoliberalism on academic institutions, particularly how the rise of the ‘marketized’ university has shifted the way in which academics are expected to engage in research and teaching. Validating academic’s experiences, we highlight their emotional responses to the ideological shift that has taken place within the academy, illustrating how lived experiences repudiate neoliberal conceptualizations ofthe academic as homo economicus. Referencing our ongoing research in Canadian universities, we overview workplace dignity, a countervailing notion that mobilizes positive emotional concepts. We then articulate an academic dignity-centered approach for future work.  \nKeywords: academic dignity, neoliberalism, higher education, emotional experience  \nAcknowledgement  \nThe authors would like to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant 435-2018-0808 for funding their research, on which this article is based. All errors and omissions are solely our responsibility.  \nIntroduction  \nA significant emerging body of research has articulated and critiqued the conditions and impacts of neoliberalism on academic institutions, particularly how the rise of the ‘marketized’ university has shifted the way in which academics are expected to engage in research and teaching (Kouritzin, 2019). We examine how academics in such institutions are impacted by these changes, with particular attention paid to emotional impact and response. Our aim is to highlight some of the key concepts evident in such work as they pertain to the emotional responses of academics to the ideological shift that has taken place within the academy. We focus on their perspectives in order to validate the emotional and lived experiences of academics and repudiate the neoliberal conceptualization of the academic as homo economicus, which“postulates that people are rational self-interested actors” who are “assumed to leave out emotions in their strategic functioning at work”(Bal, 2017, p. 106). Our focus serves to illuminate the interactive quality of academics’ emotions, as they are “experienced, felt, perceived, realized, pursued…injured, violated, wounded, or denied by others”(Lucas, 2015, pp. 621-622). Referencing our ongoing research in Canadian universities as well as extant literature, we overview work on workplace dignity, a countervailing notion that mobilizes positive emotional concepts. Using this as a springboard, we finally begin to articulate an academic dignity-centered approach. By ‘academics,’ we mean all those engaged in academic work within the academy, from tenured faculty to research specialists, and contracted instructors.  \nThe Neoliberal Academic Identity  \nAcademic identity is a dynamic and situated concept encompassing “values,” “location,” and “role”; identity is constructed and articulated in the beliefs we hold about our work, as well as our specific context and position within that context (Billot, 2010, p. 712). The ideological construct of homo economicus underpinning neoliberal academic institutions creates new academic subjectivities, as “academics have been called upon not only to be more productive but also to display that productivity in measured, measurable, and/or accountable forms”(Acker & Webber, 2017, p. 541). Ball (2003) and others argue that this transforms individuals into “enterprising subjects” who “calculate about themselves, ‘add value’ to themselves, improve their productivity, strive for excellence, and live an existence of calculation”(p. 217). Furthermore, he argues that this engenders academic ontological anxiety in the endless search of the “triumphant self”(p. 218), driven by comparison and competition with others and the notion that one’s bes","cbCaioutVUq5lwqs","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioutVUq5lwqs","pdf",314710,12,"English","# Introduction\n# The Neoliberal Academic Identity","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the paper?\",\"answer\":\"The paper focuses on how neoliberalism and the marketized university affect academics, with particular attention to emotional impacts and responses.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper challenge the neoliberal view of academics?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that academics’ lived and emotional experiences repudiate neoliberal conceptualizations of academics as homo economicus.\"},{\"question\":\"What concept does the paper use as a countervailing alternative?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights workplace dignity as a countervailing notion that mobilizes positive emotional concepts, then begins to articulate an academic dignity-centered approach.\"}]","Academic Dignity - Countering the Emotional Experience of Academia | PDF",1792083917]