“There is something we haven’t talked yet”. The cassata as gendered academic organization in Chilean universities

Abstract

This work offers an analysis of the practices that articulate Chilean academia using a gender performative approach, a discursive perspective and an organizational scopus. Following the Logics of Critical Explanation, we discursively analyze interviews to academics, inquiring into the cassata as a metaphor for the gendered organization of academic practices. The results reveal the social and political logics that constitute a gendered and genderized stratification of academic organizations, where masculinized research and feminized teaching are shaped as nodal points, while polymorphous extension operates from its ambiguity. Finally, from a phantasmatic logic, it is discussed how academic practices are constituted by management, which challenges the visibilization of resistances within contemporary Chilean academia.