Gender Regimes and Precariousness in the Neoliberal Academy: The Specific Case of Romania
Gender Regimes and Precariousness in the Neoliberal Academy: The Specific Case of Romania

Summary/Abstract: The casualisation of academic employment and the rise of ‘flexible’ financed researchers seem to be a normalised characteristic across both Western and Eastern European countries and for a long time now, it is not a novelty. Higher education and public research institutions in Romania have witnessed radical neoliberal measures and increasing growth of the number of flexible work arrangements. The article seeks to demonstrate how these new requirements and managerial changes are affecting the employment insecurity and uncertainty of researchers. In addition, the article is wondering how these transformations of higher education system became normalised in practice and whether the consequences are affecting differently men and women from both sides of working conditions and affective life strategies. For arguing about the neoliberal transformations of labour in higher education, the concept of precariousness is in the core of this study because it challenges the understanding of the labour insecurity in terms of gender regimes and care issues.

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