The purpose of this article is to deepen the understanding of academic bullying as a consequence of neoliberal reforms in a university. Academics in contemporary universities have been put under pressure by the dominance of neoliberal processes, such as profit maximization, aggressive competitiveness, individualism or self-interest, generating undignifying social behaviours, including bullying practices. The presented story takes us – a junior academic and his conceptual encounterer – through our remembered experiences and field notes around a set of workday events in one European university reformed through managerial solutions as the object of the study. To do that, we employ co-authored analytic autoethnography to learn how neoliberal solutions reinforce paternalistic relationships as significant in career development, how such solutions enable the bullying of young academics and how neoliberalism in academia prevents young academics from contesting bullying. We are particularly interested in the bystander phenomenon: a person who shies away from taking action against bullying and thus strengthens bullying practices.

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欺凌与新自由主义大学：合着的自我民族志

本文的目的是加深对大学新自由主义改革导致的学术欺凌的理解。当代大学的学者受到新自由主义进程的压力，例如利润最大化、激进的竞争、个人主义或利己主义，产生有辱人格的社会行为，包括欺凌行为。所呈现的故事带我们——一名初级学者和他的概念遭遇者——通过我们记忆中的经验和实地笔记，围绕一所通过管理解决方案改革的欧洲大学作为研究对象的一系列工作日事件。为此，我们采用合着的分析性自我民族志来了解新自由主义解决方案如何加强家长式关系，这在职业发展中具有重要意义，这些解决方案如何导致对年轻学者的欺凌，以及学术界的新自由主义如何防止年轻学者对抗欺凌。我们对旁观者现象特别感兴趣：一个人回避采取行动反对欺凌，从而加强欺凌行为。