‘Leadership is a sacred matter’: women leaders contesting and contextualising neoliberal meritocracy in the Indonesian academia
Zulfa, Sakhiyya (2020) ‘Leadership is a sacred matter’: women leaders contesting and contextualising neoliberal meritocracy in the Indonesian academia. Gender and Education. pp. 1-17. ISSN 1360-0516
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Abstract
Feminist scholars have critiqued neoliberal meritocracy as discriminating against female academics through the persistence of gender-biased assumptions, closed procedures of recruitment and promotion, and patriarchal network connections. While these scholars demand fairer meritocratic competition, we explore possibilities to (re)imagine academic career and university leadership beyond the dominant discourse of neoliberal meritocracy. Based on interviews with female deans in Indonesian universities, we identified two alternative discourses (in)forming their subjectivity as university leaders, which may both challenge and contextualise neoliberal meritocracy. The first is the Islamic notion of leadership as amanah (God-given responsibility), and the second is a view of university as family. We demonstrate that understanding university leadership through these discourses enables and fosters a sense of trust, nurture, harmony, relationality, and spirituality; which are in contrast with neoliberal meritocracy’s objectivism, individualism, corporatism, and entrepreneurialism. Nevertheless, neoliberal meritocracy is quick to co-opt these contextual ways of being for its neoliberal agenda.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Gender; university leadership; meritocracy; neoliberalism; amanah; Indonesia |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform > Social Relation H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman > Gender |
| Fakultas: | Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris (S1) |
| Depositing User: | dina nurcahyani perpus |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Mar 2021 05:17 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Apr 2021 07:14 |
| URI: | http://lib.unnes.ac.id/id/eprint/43570 |
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