Abstract

This critical, poststructural autoethnography agitates internalized neoliberalism in the higher education context. Provocative and experimental, it is intended to trouble neoliberal norms that shape professional selves and higher-education-the-collective, while also interweaving what it means to be/come a scholar. Nonlinear flares, manifested in theorization, images, vignettes, checklists, and poetry illuminate the subtleties of inescapable neoliberalism at individual and systemic levels. Offering compassion as a throughline of inquiry, I wonder if/how it is possible for compassion to disrupt neoliberalism through the precarity of individual and systemic enaction. As higher education goes on, and uncertain institutions contemplate staff/faculty retention, along with the telos of college education, how do we come to terms with neoliberalism’s stronghold that stifles emancipating onto-epistemic possibilities? Can/does compassion create breeches for new possibilities?

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