KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTIONS GENDER : an east-west comparative study

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KNOWLEDGEINSTITUTIONSGENDERan east-west
comparative study

• MODES OF ORDERING AND BOUNDARIES WHICH MATTER IN
  ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
• Ulrike Felt, Tereza Stöckelová
• With contribution of Lisa Garforth, Magdalena
  Gorska, Luba Koba, Morgan Meyer, Seppo Poutanen,
  Mariana Szapuova, Veronika Wöhrer

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Orders, audits, classifications, boundaries

• The image of seamless, universal science vs.
  boundaries within science
• Proliferation of policy ordering of academia
• Power, Micheal. 1997. The Audit Society Rituals
  of Verification. Oxford Oxford University Press.
• Strathern, Marylin (ed.). 2000. Audit cultures
  Anthropological studies in accountability, ethics
  and the academy. London and NY Routledge.
• A key characteristic of neoliberal governance
  is that it relies on more indirect forms of
  intervention and control. In particular, it seeks
  to act on and through the agency, interests,
  desires and motivations of individuals,
  encouraging them to see themselves as active
  subjects responsible for improving their own
  conduct. By internalizing the external norms of
  management, flexibilized workers transform
  themselves into governable subjects of managerial
  power and control.
• Shore, Cris. 2008. Audit culture and illiberal
  governance Universities and the politics of
  accountability. Anthropological Theory, 8(3)
  278298.

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• Multiplicity of orderings
• Law, John. 1994. Organizing modernity. Oxford
  Blackwell.
• Vocation, Vision, Administration, Enterprise
• Boundaries in flux
• Drawing, undrawing and redrawing boundaries

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Modes of orderings and boundaries which matter
Disciplines as cognitive topographies
Excellence its others
Situating being situated
Europe nation states
Basic/applied research
Centres/ periphery East/West
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The excellent and the others

• As an boundary object travelling across the EU
• Universal indicators favouring natural sciences
  epistemic practices and patterns
• Researchers attitudes
• internalization of the audit framework by most
  bioscientists
• critical voices in biosciences appeal to
  alternative mode, to good science (cooperation,
  students, freedom)
• moderate critique in social science (modified
  assessment)
• Funding scheme for excellent risky research to
  mitigate perverted effects of audit culture