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Gender and neoliberalism in Czech academia
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SYSNO ASEP 0486168 Document Type B - Monograph R&D Document Type The record was not marked in the RIV Title Gender and neoliberalism in Czech academia Author(s) Vohlídalová, Marta (SOU-Z ed.) RID, ORCID, SAI
Linková, Marcela (SOU-Z ed.) RID, ORCID, SAIIssue data Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2017 ISBN 978-80-7419-256-2 Number of pages 369 s. Publication form Online - E Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Issue 1 Keywords academic capitalism ; gender ; research policy Subject RIV AO - Sociology, Demography OECD category Sociology R&D Projects LE12003 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) Institutional support SOU-Z - RVO:68378025 Annotation This book analyses the consequences of the neoliberal-informed reforms for gender equality in Czech academia. It examines gender aspects in the construction of research excellence, gender blind research policy adopted in the Czech Republic, academic career paths before 1989 and today, mobility, wellbeing and job satisfaction among academics and the reasons and motivations for leaving academic careers. The lack of local mobilization among women researchers combined with a conservative gender order and hostility to gender equality measures in research give us the opportunity to explore the gendered effects of neoliberal reforms in the particular settings of a country that has revamped its research funding and evaluation systems in a relatively very short time.
One of the goals of the book is to show the merits of studying local practices against the backdrop of large-scale geopolitical influences. While the book adds another piece to the global puzzle of changes in the organisation of academic research and their impact on the lives of academics as well as on the quality and focus of the research conducted, its value lies in serious and critical attention to geopolitics. The local developments can thus be understood not only as particular cases of the impact of neoliberal-inspired reforms, but also as cases that can shed some light on possible developments in other, including “central”, geopolitical locations.
Workplace Institute of Sociology Contact Eva Nechvátalová, eva.nechvatalova@soc.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 220 924 / linka 351 Year of Publishing 2018
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