Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies - Volume 27, Issue 2/3, 2024

Abstract We argue that neoliberal universities implement student evaluations of teaching (SETs) as governing technologies to impose control on lecturers, resulting in their dehumanisation and objectification. Through ‘story work’ we weave together empirical quotes in existing literature, tweets, and our own experiences, to reveal that SETs employ animalistic and mechanistic dehumanisation, enhancing existing systemic i Read More

Abstract Despite decades of feminist critique on androcentric biases in academia, mainstream academic literature and training of ethnographic research typically neglects the gendered and sexualised dynamics between researchers and interlocutors, in particular the prevalence of sexualised harassment in fieldwork settings. This article outlines why this topic remains overlooked within anthropological training and e Read More

Abstract This paper discusses efforts to re-integrate feminist classroom perspectives and pedagogies within the undergraduate geography curriculum at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. As ‘feminist educators’ of this recently revised programme, we identify the mounting hegemony of postfeminist and neoliberal ideologies as key contextual challenges to our endeavour, coupled with the legacy of Dutch geography as Read More

Abstract This article explores how students experiment with unconventional and subversive research approaches in their BA theses. I draw on an (auto-) ethnographic case study of the Inquiry Otherwise Track (IOT): an extracurricular thesis programme I co-organised at Erasmus University College Rotterdam in 2023, which aimed to help students navigate the implications of feminist, decolonial, and artistic considerations in t Read More