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- Title
Workplace Injury and the Failing Academic Body: A Testimony of Pain.
- Authors
Liu, Helena
- 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.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; WORK-related injuries; HEALTH of college teachers; BACK injuries; PAIN; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; PERSONNEL management
- Publication
Journal of Business Ethics, 2022, Vol 179, Issue 2, p339
- ISSN
0167-4544
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10551-021-04838-9