Social Games and Identity in the Higher Education Workplace

Michelle Addison is Research Associate/Project Manager at the Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, UK, and is currently focused on public health and issues connected to multiple social inequalities.

“Michelle Addison’s Social Games and Identity in the Higher Education Workplace: Playing with Gender, Class and Emotion … is a well-written book by an early career researcher that explores game-playing in British universities and the effects of class and gender stratifications on our workplace identities. With a sophisticated theoretical framework, this book is essential reading for all of us who are struggling to survive and thrive in the neoliberal academy.” (Times Higher Education, timeshighereducation.com, December, 2016)

• Chapter 1. Social Games.- Chapter 2. What is Work in the 21st Century?.- Chapter 3. The Marketization of the Higher Education Workplace.- Chapter 4. Playing Games in the HE Workplace.- Chapter 5. Knowledge and Embodiment of Femininity at Work.- Chapter 6. Knowledge and Embodiment of Class at Work.- Chapter 7. (Not) 'Fitting In' and Emotion Work.- Chapter 8. Concluding Thoughts.