The embodied, entangled self and complicity in the neoliberal academy

• Published in: International politics (Hague, Netherlands) Vol. 62; no. 3; pp. 753 - 756
• Main Author: Barthwal-Datta, Monika
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 01.06.2025; Palgrave Macmillan
• Subjects: Academic achievement; Careers; Complicity; Development Studies; Embodiment; Foreign Policy; Internalization; International Political Economy; International Relations; Neoliberalism; Original Article; Political Science; Political Science and International Relations; Political Science and International Studies; Productivity; Storytelling; Writing; Privilege; Storytelling; Neoliberal academy; Complicity; Whiteness
• ISSN: 1384-5748; 1740-3898
• DOI: 10.1057/s41311-025-00669-x

In The Self, and Other Stories: Being , Knowing, Writing , Laura Shepherd illuminates the embodied and entangled nature of knowing the self, and the self as a ‘knowing subject’ in the neoliberal, violent, and exclusionary academy. Here, I explore some of the ways in which such embodiment and entangl...