🤩 I have published an article (in Spanish) about how disciplinary identity can be a useful category to develop intersectional analysis within academia, especially in Latin America. It can be downloaded here:
https://ucronias.unpaz.edu.ar/index.php/ucronias/article/view/199
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In this article I present how disciplinary identity can be a useful category to develop intersectional analysis within academia. That is because disciplinary identity allows identifying expressions of discrimination and violence towards women professors with a different disciplinary background from the department in which they work, thus exposing the intersection of sex/gender and disciplinary identity. For this purpose, I conducted semi-structured interviews in a Colombian public university with 24 women and two men professors, and an ethnographic study with three of the women interviewees. Empirical information, submitted to content analysis, shows that the disciplinary identity and sex/gender of women professors are used to delegitimize their formation and knowledge when they join a department with a different disciplinary focus. In this way, their training and presence in the department are not only questioned, but also minimized since their contributions and achievements are not recognized, and they are segregated from decision-making administrative positions. However, women professors have obtained external recognition, allowing them to develop navigation strategies in the discriminating and violent atmosphere of their departments.
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