Between naturalization and unquietness: educating to tolerate the intolerable?

Abstract

Three scenes written from experiences in a public university, located far, far away from us. With the attention focused on the daily academic life and on the academic relations developed, this text seeks to question, to provoke and to incite reflections about what we produce in the university as students, teachers and technicians. We get used to being part of universities that investigate and analyze ... others! But we pay little attention to what we do, to how we do it, and to what our attitudes elicit, stimulate, and produce. Based on theoretical concepts such as micropolitics and subjectivity, this text uses autoethnography as its method. With autoethnographic narratives I question the extent to which academic relations - understood as processes of subjectivation - can contribute to the naturalization of situations that threaten health and endanger the lives of teachers, students, technicians, employees and others involved in the Academy. What have we naturalized and do not even question? What do we stimulate with our attitudes and relationships? What ways of managing the university do we build? What do these modes Higher Education management stimulate? Are we educating to tolerate the intolerable?