Workplace Injury and the Failing Academic Body: A Testimony of Pain

Liu, H

Workplace Injury and the Failing Academic Body: A Testimony of Pain

Liu, H

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Publisher:: Springer
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Business Ethics, 2022, 179, (2), pp. 339-352
Issue Date:: 2022-08-01

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dc.contributor.author	Liu, H https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4211-0932
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-11T02:14:49Z
dc.date.available	2021-05-10
dc.date.available	2022-11-11T02:14:49Z
dc.date.issued	2022-08-01
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Business Ethics, 2022, 179, (2), pp. 339-352
dc.identifier.issn	0167-4544
dc.identifier.issn	1573-0697
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/163391
dc.description.abstract	This article explores how meanings around risk, health/safety, and workers’ bodies are constructed in an academic context. I do so through the study of a single academic in Australia who sustained a back injury at work. Through an analysis of in-depth interviews and documents, I attempt to show the embodied experience of an injured worker’s struggle for care, recovery, and survival in the neoliberal academy. Writing from the nexus of workplace health and safety and critical management literatures, the raw testimony of this injured academic lays bare the violences that are enabled within a wider culture of self-discipline, individualism, and performativity in the university. The story presented in this article exposes how physiological and psychological injuries can be exacerbated through the very health and safety procedures that are designed to prevent and alleviate harm. Please note that this article contains references to suicide and suicidal ideation.
dc.format	Print-Electronic
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Springer
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Business Ethics
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/s10551-021-04838-9
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dc.subject	1503 Business and Management, 1505 Marketing, 2201 Applied Ethics
dc.subject.classification	Applied Ethics
dc.title	Workplace Injury and the Failing Academic Body: A Testimony of Pain
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Abstract:

This article explores how meanings around risk, health/safety, and workers’ bodies are constructed in an academic context. I do so through the study of a single academic in Australia who sustained a back injury at work. Through an analysis of in-depth interviews and documents, I attempt to show the embodied experience of an injured worker’s struggle for care, recovery, and survival in the neoliberal academy. Writing from the nexus of workplace health and safety and critical management literatures, the raw testimony of this injured academic lays bare the violences that are enabled within a wider culture of self-discipline, individualism, and performativity in the university. The story presented in this article exposes how physiological and psychological injuries can be exacerbated through the very health and safety procedures that are designed to prevent and alleviate harm. Please note that this article contains references to suicide and suicidal ideation.

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