Neoliberal individualism in Dutch universities Teaching and learning anthropology in an insecure environment
Neoliberal individualism in Dutch universities Teaching and learning anthropology in an insecure environment
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DOI：
10.3167/latiss.2014.070303
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发表时间：
2014-12-01
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1.1
通讯作者：
Kirk, Kate
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作者：
Bal, Ellen;Grassiani, Erella;Kirk, Kate
这篇文章是根据我们自己的经验和我们的几个同事在荷兰不同的高等教育机构教社会和文化人类学。我们特别关注两个小型文理学院（LAS）的教学和学习，其中人类学是社会科学课程的一部分和/或核心课程的一部分。我们在非正式讨论和与同事的正式访谈中收集到的数据，以及关于学术界最近变化的文献，使我们认为，新自由主义个人主义，由不断衡量个人表现和产出的管理策略所塑造，正在使学术界成为一个越来越不安全的工作和学习场所。这种不安全的后果包括学生和教职员工的心理健康问题日益严重，以牺牲同事关系和协作为代价的竞争加剧，以及学术工作和教学质量的总体下降。虽然人类学的学科可以帮助我们更好地了解我们自己的条件，问题的个性化和对成功的关注模糊了人类学的透镜，它着眼于社会和文化结构的权力，并依赖于批判性的反思。
This article is based on our own experiences and that of several of our colleagues teaching social and cultural anthropology in different Dutch institutions for higher learning. We focus in particular on teaching and learning in two small liberal arts and science (LAS) colleges, where anthropology makes up part of the social science curriculum and/or is part of the core curriculum. The data collected from our own critical refl ections developed during informal discussion and from formal interviews with colleagues, together with literature on recent changes in academia, leads us to argue that neoliberal individualism, shaped by management tactics that constantly measure individual performance and output, is making academia an increasingly insecure place in which to work and study. The consequences of this insecurity include increasing mental health problems among both students and staff, intensifying competition at the expense of collegiality and collaboration and an overall decrease in the quality of academic jobs and teaching. Although the discipline of anthropology can help us better understand our own conditions, the personalisation of problems and the focus on success obscure the anthropological lens, which looks at social and cultural structures of power and depends on critical refl exivity.