{"id":17736,"date":"2025-09-24T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=17736"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:39:25","slug":"celebrating-success-dr-sara-zaeemdar-professor-iain-munroe-and-dr-josephine-go-jefferies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2025\/09\/24\/celebrating-success-dr-sara-zaeemdar-professor-iain-munroe-and-dr-josephine-go-jefferies\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Success – Dr Sara Zaeemdar, Professor Iain Munro and Dr Josephine Go Jefferies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Dr Sara Zaeemdar, Professor Iain Munro and Josephine Go Jefferies who along with other co-authors have had their recent paper \u201cReading as communal luxury: On the formation of a resistant subject group<\/span>\u201d has been published in Management Learning<\/p>\n

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This provocation argues for the importance of reading groups, and for reading books, as a mode of resistance against the instrumentalisation and individualisation of academic labour in today\u2019s neo-liberalised universities. Against the dominant \u2018information processing\u2019 paradigm of reading, we argue that reading groups function as invaluable moments of social reproduction in the \u2018undercommons\u2019 of contemporary higher education. Combining Harney and Moten\u2019s concept of the undercommons with Ross\u2019 analysis of communal luxury, we argue that reading groups can articulate a radical, performative demand for the right to collective cultural creativity. Reading groups can steal back a small degree of academic autonomy, not over academic labour, but over the social reproduction that makes such labour possible in the first place. This argument is interspersed with intermezzo reflections on our collective experiences as members of a \u2018viral reading group\u2019, meeting since the start of Covid. We conclude our provocation with a manifesto for reading groups as a way of contesting the hegemony of instrumental rationality in management learning and education, for academics and for students, and as a place where the two can meet to plan and study, within and beyond the institutional limits of contemporary higher education.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/13505076251374948<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Dr Sara Zaeemdar, Professor Iain Munro and Josephine Go Jefferies who along with other co-authors have had their recent paper \u201cReading as communal…
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