Focusing on Tanzanian and Mozambican PhD students funded by Swedish development aid, this article investigates how everyday academic work life is gendered in Sweden and in the students’ home academic departments. In particular, it focuses on the role of ‘important others’, such as international donors, universities, colleagues and family, in enhancing or alleviating vulnerability and how this shifts across spatial contexts. Integral to this is exploring how obstacles are managed and negotiated by PhD students, and how they articulate capability and therefore resist a position as a victim. The results indicate the glonacality of vulnerability as something that stretches over institutional and national boundaries, and how vulnerability can be (re)produced at local university level despite the good intentions of donors and universities operating ata global level. In addition,a translocational and intersectional perspective highlights how situations of vulnerability are gendered and radicalised differently in different academic contexts.

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跨国学术流动中的脆弱性、性别和阻力

本文重点关注由瑞典发展援助资助的坦桑尼亚和莫桑比克博士生，调查瑞典和学生家庭学术部门的日常学术工作生活是如何性别化的。特别是，它侧重于“重要的其他人”，例如国际捐助者、大学、同事和家庭，在增强或减轻脆弱性方面的作用以及这种作用如何跨空间环境变化。与此相关的是探索博士生如何管理和协商障碍，以及他们如何表达能力并因此抵制作为受害者的立场。结果表明脆弱性的全球性是跨越制度和国家边界的东西，以及在全球范围内运作的捐助者和大学的良好意图，如何在地方大学层面（重新）产生脆弱性。此外，易位和交叉视角突出了脆弱性情况在不同学术背景下如何以不同的方式被性别化和激进化。