Navigating Systemic Barriers in Academia

Kristin S. Williams is an Associate Professor of Management in the F.C. Manning School of Business, Faculty of Professional Studies at Acadia University.Paulina Segarra is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Universidad Anáhuac.Fernanda Filgueiras Sauerbronn is an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

• 1. Nothing About Us Without Us – Kristin S. Williams, Paulina Segarra and Fernanda F SauerbronnTheme 1: Embodied Barriers: The Politics of Visibility, Vulnerability, and Survival in the Academy – Kristin S. Williams, Paulina Segarra and Fernanda F Sauerbronn2. Academia: I Survived but Just Barely – Ann Armstrong3. Systemic Barriers of Health Inequality: Committing to an Academic Career With Celiac Disease – Anne Steinhoff4. Shadows in the Ivory Tower: Confronting Workplace Violence in Academia – Jason Walker, Deborah Circo, Hawwa Shiuna Musthafa, Lilya Shienko5. Bullying in the Body – Anonymous6. Non-Binary in the Academy – Saoirse Caitlin O’Shea7. What You See It Is Not What You Get: (In)visible Barriers in Academia – Giulia Giunti8. Confronting Real and Imagined Barriers in Doing Three Hyphenated Academic Identities – Nicholous M. DealTheme 2: Structures of Inequality: Violence, Evaluation, and Epistemic Exclusion – Kristin S. Williams, Paulina Segarra and Fernanda F Sauerbronn9. Translating Marginalised Knowledge: Linguistic and Epistemic Barriers in the Internationalisation of Management Knowledge – Fábio Moita Louredo and Sergio Eduardo De Pinho Velho Wanderley10. Maneuvering Through Evaluative Challenges and Beyond – Paraskevi Dimakou11. From Discrimination to Gatekeeping: The Process of Transforming an Academic Into a Barrier – Jaime Andrés Bayona12. The Ones Who Keep Us Here: Friendship, Care, and Everyday Resistance in Academia – Paulina Segarra13. Nothing About Us Without Us: The Work Ahead – Kristin S. Williams, Paulina Segarra and Fernanda F Sauerbronn

'We need to talk about systemic barriers in academia. They affect everyone, albeit in different ways and with different consequences. Navigating Systemic Barriers in Academia is a timely, sensitively curated collection of essays that invite us to engage with what it is like to experience, live and work through a variety of barriers in academia. Written by a diverse group of scholars based in higher education institutions all over the world, this important book raises awareness, offers a call to action, and touches hearts.' Martyna Śliwa, University of Bath