Authorship: Ester Conesa Carpintero
Programme: Information and Knowledge Society
Lenguage: English
Supervisor: Dr Ana Mª González Ramos
Departament / Institut: Doctoral School
Subjects: Social Sciences
Key words: gender, science, academia, care, time, productivism, acceleration
Area of knowledge: Information and Knowledge Society
Abstract
This thesis explores the effects of productivism and the acceleration of the academic pace in scientists’ lives and scientific practices. It works with a feminist care (and time for care) theoretical framework to analyse the contemporary situation of science and to foster other imaginaries and practices. The work (i) analyses the application of private and precarious rationales in the organization of science – new managerialism – and its effects on the well-being of academics; (ii) explores subjectivation processes under the neoliberal scientific governmentality; and (iii) delves into the complex relationships of care, time, gender and productivity affecting science discourses, funding, evaluation and knowledge practices, as well as scientists’ relationships and personal lives. The methodology is mainly qualitative and the study is situated in the context of Spain in dialogue with the context of Europe. The feminist care framework unveils the dominant temporality of productivism which displaces care practices and time for care, producing gender exclusions and loss of diversity.