ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the academic practice, social difference and control, and attempts to elucidate the complex and contradictory relationships between processes of neoliberalisation of the academy, the production of emplaced knowledges, and gendered academic subject formation. The academic discipline of geography has historically been dominated by men, perhaps more so than any other human science. Accordingly, the relationship between power, knowledge and the production of truth has been a central point of interest for geographers who have sought to explore the character of masculine privilege in academic knowledge production. Masculinities, along with other hegemonic projects like neoliberalism, ableism and classism, are continually in the process of adapting to new cultural norms, technologies and forms of counter-hegemonic resistance. While neoliberalism as a system characterises much of the social world, its nebulous character is shaped and continues to be reshaped by 'compromise, calculation, and contradiction'.
