Making Visible Collegiality of a Different Kind

Abstract

The notions of “collegiality”, and the related term “colleagues” are often aligned with the work of academics in university settings, although these terms are slippery and contested. In this chapter, we explore the competing concepts and discourses that frame the notion of collegiality in a neoliberal university during supercomplex times. We offer ways to enact a collegiality of a different kind to buffer the current era of emotional insecurity, while also speaking truths back to the powerful impersonal university machine. We discuss how we have employed arts-informed methodologies to engage “colleagues” to reflect not only on the intellectual cognitive domain of the work we do, but also on the affective, emotional energy that features regularly in and throughout our work.