With the increasing neoliberalization of universities in the United States, current debates question the radical potential of self-care in higher education. Engaging with the work of Audre Lorde and James C. Scott, I argue how discounting self-care as insignificant or co-opted masks the possibilities for everyday forms of resistance through self-care. Broadening beyond a focus on simplistic binaries—individual versus collective, co-opted versus radical—this article offers a different orientation toward self-care—one that I call critical self-care—which recognizes that we can be critical of co-optation by the university, while also understanding self-care as critical to our existence within the university. I develop this conceptualization of self-care in the context of the neoliberal university, by identifying three facets of critical self-care—disruption of the hegemonic academic culture of overwork, building alternative ways of existing within the university, and allowing for the self-care of others—each of which reveals how self-care practices hold the potential for resistance and change to gendered and racialized norms of the institution, even in quiet or informal ways.

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“批判性自我保健”：在新自由主义大学的背景下将自我保健的可能性重新想象为日常抵抗

随着美国大学新自由主义化程度的不断提高，当前的争论质疑高等教育中自我保健的根本潜力。通过参与奥德丽·洛德 (Audre Lorde) 和詹姆斯·C·斯科特 (James C. Scott) 的研究，我认为，将自我保健视为无关紧要或增选是如何掩盖了通过自我保健进行日常抵抗形式的可能性。本文超越了对简单化二元对立的关注——个人与集体、收编与激进——提供了一种不同的自我保健方向——我称之为批判性自我保健——它认识到我们可以通过以下方式对收编持批评态度：大学，同时也理解自我保健对于我们在大学中的存在至关重要。我在新自由主义大学的背景下发展了这种自我保健的概念，通过确定批判性自我保健的三个方面——破坏过度工作的霸权学术文化，在大学内建立替代的存在方式，以及允许自我保健照顾他人——每一项都揭示了自我照顾实践如何具有抵抗和改变机构性别和种族规范的潜力，即使是以安静或非正式的方式。