ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic amplified inequities around parent-scholars in the neoliberal gig academy. This paper documents the stories and intersectional struggles of four precarious parent-scholars as they navigated doctoral work, dissertation defenses, research, remote teaching, and family life during the pandemic. We illustrate how we navigated our neoliberal subjectivities and the extending multifold crises around the division of labor between academic work and parenting, gender roles, and internalized pressures exacerbated by a public postsecondary education system that exploits increasingly precarious workforces. Through critical collaborative autoethnography, we reflect on our parenting and teaching from March 2020 to August 2021. Drawing from our collective findings we summarize three mutually interdependent areas of communicative intervention that can make our workplace more equitable, entailing self-reflection, negotiation of labor, and collaborative dialogue.

摘要

COVID-19 大流行加剧了新自由主义零工学院家长学者之间的不平等。本文记录了四位风雨飘摇的父母学者在大流行期间处理博士工作、论文答辩、研究、远程教学和家庭生活时的故事和交叉斗争。我们说明了我们如何驾驭我们的新自由主义主观性以及围绕学术工作和育儿之间的分工、性别角色以及利用越来越不稳定的劳动力的公立高等教育系统加剧的内化压力的多重危机。通过批判性的协作性自我民族志，我们反思了 2020 年 3 月至 2021 年 8 月的育儿和教学。