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Academics have long been calling for better ethics of care and more inclusive working environments, yet situational and structural barriers within academia are complex and often hidden. Advocating the need for diverse voices in discussions on systemic inequality, this edited volume provides a vital platform for sharing lived experiences of intersectional identities navigating systemic barriers alongside academic pressures.
These personal essays offer powerful narratives of resistance, perseverance and hope from within the ‘ivory tower’ of academia, addressing religion, disability, geography, race, gender identity and language. They illuminate frequently invisible obstacles, examining issues such as tokenism, performativity and imposter syndrome.
'We need to talk about systemic barriers in academia. They affect everyone, albeit in different ways and with different consequences. Navigating Systemic Barriers in Academia is a timely, sensitively curated collection of essays that invite us to engage with what it is like to experience, live and work through a variety of barriers in academia. Written by a diverse group of scholars based in higher education institutions all over the world, this important book raises awareness, offers a call to action, and touches hearts.' Martyna Śliwa, University of Bath
'In Navigating Systemic Barriers in Academia, a diverse group of authors draws reflexively on challenging experiences to build a collective inquiry into oppressive institutional settings and the possibilities of taking a critical stance and deploying tactics of hope against mechanisms that exploit vulnerabilities. Moving beyond narratives of individual struggle, the volume invites collective action and ethico-political resistance against the norms and cultures that reproduce marginalization and exploitation, asking readers to see the wrongs and contribute to building a better academia.' Amon Barros, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EAESP)
'This powerful body of writing insists we listen. Centring lived experience, it exposes the systemic exclusions that persist in academia and demands more than tokenistic inclusion. Skilfully, the editors assemble a courageous and necessary contribution to reimagining knowledge, justice, and belonging in the academy.' Richard Longman, The Open University
Kristin S. Williams is an Associate Professor of Management in the F.C. Manning School of Business, Faculty of Professional Studies at Acadia University.
Paulina Segarra is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Universidad Anáhuac.
Fernanda Filgueiras Sauerbronn is an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
1. Nothing About Us Without Us – Kristin S. Williams, Paulina Segarra and Fernanda F Sauerbronn
Theme 1: Embodied Barriers: The Politics of Visibility, Vulnerability, and Survival in the Academy – Kristin S. Williams, Paulina Segarra and Fernanda F Sauerbronn
2. Academia: I Survived but Just Barely – Ann Armstrong
3. Systemic Barriers of Health Inequality: Committing to an Academic Career With Celiac Disease – Anne Steinhoff
4. Shadows in the Ivory Tower: Confronting Workplace Violence in Academia – Jason Walker, Deborah Circo, Hawwa Shiuna Musthafa, Lilya Shienko
5. Bullying in the Body – Anonymous
6. Non-Binary in the Academy – Saoirse Caitlin O’Shea
7. What You See It Is Not What You Get: (In)visible Barriers in Academia – Giulia Giunti
8. Confronting Real and Imagined Barriers in Doing Three Hyphenated Academic Identities – Nicholous M. Deal
Theme 2: Structures of Inequality: Violence, Evaluation, and Epistemic Exclusion – Kristin S. Williams, Paulina Segarra and Fernanda F Sauerbronn
9. Translating Marginalised Knowledge: Linguistic and Epistemic Barriers in the Internationalisation of Management Knowledge – Fábio Moita Louredo and Sergio Eduardo De Pinho Velho Wanderley
10. Maneuvering Through Evaluative Challenges and Beyond – Paraskevi Dimakou
11. From Discrimination to Gatekeeping: The Process of Transforming an Academic Into a Barrier – Jaime Andrés Bayona
12. The Ones Who Keep Us Here: Friendship, Care, and Everyday Resistance in Academia – Paulina Segarra
13. Nothing About Us Without Us: The Work Ahead – Kristin S. Williams, Paulina Segarra and Fernanda F Sauerbronn