In search of the cracks in the system: Feminist and queer scholarship in education and the marketized university in Spain

It has been well documented that the logics underpinning how the marketized university functions legitimize certain hegemonic perspectives and topics, while relegating to the margins emergent, critical, and innovative approaches that challenge the dominant knowledge paradigms. This chapter uses queer scholarship as both a frame and case study for analysing the effects of neoliberal dynamics on knowledge production in the field of education. It explores how academics navigate the marketized university and how, and to what extent, they struggle to generate individual and collective strategies and spaces of resistance and contestation. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 14 researchers from 11 Spanish universities, we identify both spaces of resistance and strategies undertaken to navigate neoliberal academia in the hope to ultimately subvert—or queer—dominant knowledge systems.