Re-empowering academics in a corporate culture: an exploration of workload and performativity in a university
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DOI: 10.1007/s10734-017-0143-z
Abstract: Neo-liberal reforms in higher education have resulted in corporate managerial practices in universities and a drive for efficiency and productivity in teaching and research. As a result, there has been an intensification of academic work,… read more here.
Keywords: work; workload; academic work; empowering academics ... See more keywords
Integrated reporting and the performativity of intellectual capital
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DOI: 10.1007/s10997-018-9443-7
Abstract: The research investigates how intellectual capital (IC) is problematised in the context of integrated reporting. Drawing on a performative approach to IC, the paper explores the role of organisational actors in defining, classifying and valuing… read more here.
Keywords: organisational actors; intellectual capital; process; integrated reporting ... See more keywords
The problem with performativity: comments on the contributions
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DOI: 10.1057/s41268-018-0159-8
Abstract: This article provides a critical assessment of the contributions to this special issue. As these articles show, it is only once we take theatrical metaphors seriously that what can start to understand international politics. The… read more here.
Keywords: performativity comments; comments contributions; performativity; problem performativity ... See more keywords
Primary school leadership in England: performativity and matters of professionalism
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DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2016.1273758
Abstract: Abstract This article presents interview data from a study involving nine primary school leaders. Five are leaders of local authority schools while four are leaders of schools within a large academy chain. The article examines… read more here.
Keywords: professionalism; primary school; school leadership; leadership england ... See more keywords
Making accountable teachers: the terrors and pleasures of performativity
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DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2017.1372636
Abstract: Abstract This article draws from Stephen Ball’s work on markets, managerialism, and performativity to frame a comparative study that examines the reconstitution of the teacher–subject across a pivotal decade in which neoliberal standards and accountability… read more here.
Keywords: teachers terrors; accountable teachers; terrors pleasures; accountability ... See more keywords
Mega-sport events, gender equity, and sport legacy planning: mobilizing performativity for deeper insights
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DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2025.2517058
Abstract: ABSTRACT Mega-sporting event legacies have attracted academic interest and examination over the last two decades. The development of legacy plans has become central to sport event bidding, acting as a means of prioritizing outcomes by… read more here.
Keywords: mega sport; sport; performativity; legacy ... See more keywords
Performativity, guilty knowledge, and ethnographic intervention
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DOI: 10.1080/17457823.2015.1110039
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper applies Dennis’ [(2009). “What does it Mean when an Ethnographer Intervenes?” Ethnography and Education 4 (2): 131–146] modes of ethnographic intervention to a fieldwork experience of an observed secondary school lesson in… read more here.
Keywords: intervention; ethnographic intervention; performativity guilty; performativity ... See more keywords
Digital platform work reinforcing performativity: teacher responses to work intensification explored through trace ethnography
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DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2024.2409661
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper critically explores how teachers’ everyday work is reconfigured through work on and around different digital platforms. In particular, it demonstrates teacher experiences of workload and work intensification and the different workarounds and… read more here.
Keywords: work intensification; work; performativity; school ... See more keywords
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography
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DOI: 10.1177/01708406221145655
Abstract: While performativity, as a theoretical concept, has gained much purchase in the field of management and organization studies (MOS), there remains a dearth of empirical work operationalizing the idea. In this article, we argue that… read more here.
Keywords: performativity; sited ethnography; balancing breadth; research ... See more keywords
Performativity and the Disability Category: Solving The Zero Theorem
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DOI: 10.1177/0896920518796904
Abstract: This article explores critically the relationship between capitalist performativity and the disability category. It draws on Jean-François Lyotard’s analysis of postmodernity to define ‘performativity’ as the principle of performance enhancement governing the world of contemporary… read more here.
Keywords: disability; zero theorem; performativity disability; disability category ... See more keywords
No such thing as sociological excuses? Performativity, rationality and social scientific expertise in late liberalism
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DOI: 10.1177/13684310211018939
Abstract: This article examines a frequent assumption of sociological accounts of knowledge: the idea that knowledge acts. The performativity of knowledge claims is here analysed through the prism of ‘sociological excuses’: the idea that sociological explanations… read more here.
Keywords: sociological excuses; thing sociological; performativity; late liberalism ... See more keywords