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To the Center and Back: My Journey Through the Odds of Gendered Precarity in Academia

Emanuela Mangiarotti(author)

Chapter of: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe(pp. 155–162)

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Title	To the Center and Back
Subtitle	My Journey Through the Odds of Gendered Precarity in Academia
Contributor	Emanuela Mangiarotti(author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0331.16
Landing page	https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0331/chapters/10.11647/obp.0331.16
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Copyright	Emanuela Mangiarotti
Publisher	Open Book Publishers
Published on	2023-05-11
Long abstract	My academic life has been on the move. Movements across disciplinary, geographical and societal boundaries have been central to my subjective experience of relocating to and navigating different academic spaces. This essay reflects on how the effort to re-integrate into the university in Italy has been chiefly defined by my identity as a homecoming Italian female researcher and how moving back has made me radically aware of how gender marks endemic precarity within Italian academia. The narrative also touches upon empowering moments of participating in networks where situating the subjective experience of gendered precarity translates into collective efforts to create alternative academic spaces and practices of care and mutual recognition.
Page range	pp. 155–162
Print length	8 pages
Language	English (Original)

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Emanuela Mangiarotti

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Research Fellow at University of Pavia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9640-7689

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