Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Stewart Riddle , Marcus K. Harmes and Patrick Alan Danaher -- Partaking of Pleasure / Marcus K. Harmes , Patrick Alan Danaher and Stewart Riddle -- Producing Moments of Pleasure within the Confines of the Neoliberal University / Eileen Honan -- ‘Do What Sustains You’ / Stewart Riddle -- The Pleasure of Writing / David Bright -- Wild Choreography of Affect and Ecstasy / Jennifer Charteris , Adele Nye and Marguerite Jones -- The Joy in Writingassemblage / Sarah Loch , Linda Henderson and Eileen Honan -- Female Pleasure in the Academy through Erotic Power / Cecily Jensen-Clayton and Rena MacLeod -- The Intrinsic Pleasure of Being Present with/in Humanistic Research / Gail Crimmins -- For Hermann: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways / Carol A. Taylor -- Where Have All the Flowers Gone? / Pauline Collins -- Reducing the Drag / Alison L. Black , Gail Crimmins and Janice K. Jones -- Testimonio and the Idios Kosmos of the Contemporary Academic / Andrew Hickey and Robyn Henderson -- Self-Determination Theory and Academic Life / Erich C. Fein , Rahul Ganguly , Thomas Banhazi and Patrick Alan Danaher -- The Pleasure and Pain of Aboriginal Being in the University / Kathryn Gilbey and Tracey Bunda -- Academic Writing, Creative Pleasure and the Salvaging of Joy / Susanne Gannon and Jo Lampert -- From Frustration to Flow / Judith Gouwens and Kenneth P. King -- Pleasure, Pain and the Possibilities of Being and Becoming / Samuel Davies and Patrick Alan Danaher -- “Don’t Cry – Do Research!” / Fred Dervin -- About The Authors / Stewart Riddle , Marcus K. Harmes and Patrick Alan Danaher.

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Academics working in contemporary universities are experiencing unprecedented and unsustainable pressure in an environment of hyper-performativity, metrics and accountability. From this perspective, the university produces multiple tensions and moments of crises, where it seems that there is limited space left for the intrinsic enjoyment arising from scholarly practices. This book offers a global perspective on how pleasure is central to the endeavours of academics working in the contemporary university, with contributors evaluating the opportunities for the strategic refusal of the quantifying, stultifying and stupefying delimiters of what is possible for academic production. The aim of this book is to open up spaces for conversation, reflection and thought, in order to think, to be and to do differently – pleasurably. Contributors rupture the bounds of what is permissible and possible within their daily lives, habits and practices. As such, this book addresses increasingly significant questions. What are some of the multiple and different ways that we can reclaim pleasure and enhance the durations and intensities of our passions, desires and becomings within the contemporary university? How might these aspirations be realised? What are the spaces for the pleasurable production of research that might be opened up? How might we reconfigure the neoliberal university to be a place of more affect, where desire, laughter and joy join with the work that we seek to undertake and the communities whom we serve?