Changing the academic subject
The article examines the ways in which rationalities of risk currently work to produce the academic as a self-managing worker within the 'post-welfare' university as a risk-conscious organization. It explores how risk minimization as audit (individual, departmental, organizational), engages all individuals within the university in doing particular sorts of work on themselves, the work of turning themselves into 'professional experts'. The theme is developed drawing on Mary Douglas's theorizing of 'risk-as-danger', Marilyn Strathern's inquiry into the 'audit explosion' in universities, Ericson and Haggerty's work on knowledge and professionalism within the risk-conscious organization, and Castel's understanding of the changing nature of the practitioner-client relationship in risk-conscious organizations.
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Queensland University of Technology Australia
Publication date: 01 April 2004
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