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“Having a family is the new normal”: Parenting in neoliberal academia during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorFrança, Thais
dc.contributor.authorGodinho, Filipa
dc.contributor.authorPadilla, Beatriz
dc.contributor.authorVicente, Mara
dc.contributor.authorAmancio, Lígia
dc.contributor.authorFernandes, Ana A.
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-21T11:42:41Z
dc.date.available2023-08-21T11:42:41Z
dc.date.issued2022-08-26
dc.description.abstractThe outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has made explicit the burden of care shouldered by academic mothers, in addition to juggling their scholarly commitments. Although discussions are abundant on the impact of caring responsibilities on the careers of women academics, neoliberal academia continues to minimize such struggles. Despite the disruptions to family routines caused by the health crisis, academic institutions have expected academic mothers and fathers to continue undertaking their professional responsibilities at the same level as before, disregarding their parenting demands. This paper contributes to the research on parenthood in academia by looking at how, throughout the pandemic, academic parents have negotiated the tensions between parenthood and academic demands, and by investigating the strategies they use to confront neoliberal culture of academic performativity, even amid the health crisis. The paper engages with the “space invaders” concept used by Puwar (2004) to analyze the “hypervisibil ity” of academic mothers' and fathers' “bodies out of place” during the pandemic, and to investigate their “renegade acts” against the uncaring attitudes of their institutions. Evidence is drawn from a qualitative study conducted during December 2020 and January 2021 among scholars affiliated to Portuguese academic institutions: 17 in-depth interviews conducted with women, and two mixed-gender focus groups. Our results research reveal how the experiences of academic mothers and fathers were not uniform during the pandemic. In addition, it shows how, despite their commitment to their academic responsibilities, these parents have crafted various resistance strategies to confront the institutional pressure to continue maintain their working routines, and instead positioning themselves as “more than just academics.”pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationFrança, Thais, Filipa Godinho, Beatriz Padilla, Mara Vicente, Lígia Amâncio, and Ana Fernandes. 2023. ““Having a Family is the New Normal”: Parenting in Neoliberal Academia During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Gender, Work & Organization: 30(1), 35–51. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12895.pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/gwao.12895pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/28126
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherWILEYpt_PT
dc.relationThe present work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal under the scheme RESEARCH GENDER 4 COVID, grant 91.pt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectCOVID-19 pandemic, gender, neoliberal academia, parenthood, resistancept_PT
dc.title“Having a family is the new normal”: Parenting in neoliberal academia during the COVID‐19 pandemicpt_PT
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oaire.citation.titleGender, Work & Organizationpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume30pt_PT
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