ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book offers a way of working that has helped to resist neoliberalism and feel more connected to tribe of co-conspirators. It explores the perceived effects of neoliberalism on our personal and professional lives, and detail moments when we have found these effects dehumanising. The book identifies the experience of collaboration as being a possible way of keeping the human in and the neoliberal out. It describes a project with women who have survived domestic abuse and how it triggered stories of recovery, shared in safe and supported spaces on campus. The book also explores an approach to devising pedagogy that Ross Adamson and and draws explicitly on shared stories of time at university and how this helped devise a module to help students navigate the challenges of life post-graduation.
