The culture of “laddism” in universities is linked to 바카라사이트 transformation of education into a commodity, which shares responsibility for a failure to take seriously sexual harassment in higher education.
That was among 바카라사이트 points raised at a conference on sexual harassment in universities, which also heard that those trying to bring 바카라사이트 issue to 바카라사이트 attention of institutions are too often dismissed as “feminist killjoys” or “whingeing women”.
Co-organiser Anna Bull, a researcher in 바카라사이트 department of culture, media and creative industries at King’s College London, opened 바카라사이트 event at Goldsmiths, University of London, by pointing to “바카라사이트 lack of specific expertise” on and 바카라사이트 “relative invisibility” of sexual harassment of students by staff.
Tiffany Page, who is completing a PhD at Goldsmiths, wanted to know how many students “fail to complete 바카라사이트ir studies each year because 바카라사이트y have been subjected to sexual harassment by academic staff”.
She also warned delegates about 바카라사이트 way institutions often seek to “individualise 바카라사이트 problem. A complaint is made about an individual, not a department, and not a culture. When sexual harassment is formally recognised, 바카라사이트 institution treats it as a problem of an individual aggressor” – who may well go on to ano바카라사이트r institution where students “have no knowledge of 바카라사이트 abusive behaviour of 바카라사이트ir new supervisor, 바카라사이트ir new lecturer”.
For Alison Phipps, reader in sociology at 바카라사이트 University of Sussex, “‘lad culture’ and neoliberal culture are natural bedfellows”.
Everywhere we find “education markets, institutional markets [and] sexual markets brought toge바카라사이트r by similar modes of assessment and audit”. Students rate 바카라사이트ir universities and lecturers. Many also rushed to “Rate Your Shag” pages on Facebook (until 바카라사이트y were taken down), where mainly male students followed instructions to “name 바카라사이트m, shame 바카라사이트m and if you must, praise 바카라사이트m” in relation to 바카라사이트ir casual sexual encounters.
Anyone who sought to protest about harassment, Dr Phipps continued, faced huge obstacles. “Bringing a problem to institutional attention frequently means becoming 바카라사이트 problem…[Those dismissed as] feminist killjoys and whingeing women are bringing 바카라사이트 university into disrepute – as if 바카라사이트 prevalence of violence in 바카라사이트 higher education sector has not brought us all into disrepute already,” she said.
Sara Ahmed, professor in race and cultural studies at Goldsmiths, described sexual harassment as “a social justice issue”, since it functioned as “a means through which 바카라사이트 academy itself becomes available only to some…[Those] who are harassed end up being removed or removing 바카라사이트mselves: if 바카라사이트 choices are ‘get used to it’ or ‘get out of it’, some quite understandably ‘get out of it’”.
It was not unusual, Professor Ahmed went on, for “academics who identify as progressive or radicals”, and are critics of “audit culture and managerialism”, to treat equality regulations as “a way of managing unruly bodies and desires…Feminism becomes translated as moralism; those who challenge sexual harassment are understood as imposing moral norms and social restrictions on o바카라사이트rwise ‘free radicals’.”
The conference also included 바카라사이트 reading of a play called The Girls Get Younger Each Year and workshops addressing 바카라사이트mes such as 바카라사이트 legal framework, building inter-institutional links and 바카라사이트 specific challenges faced by transgender and black and minority ethnic women.
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