Neoliberalism, precarious jobs, and control of work have multiple effects on academic identities as our allegiances to valued social groups and our connections to meaningful locations are challenged. While identities in neoliberal universities have received increasing research attention, sense of place has passed unnoticed in the literature. We engage with collaborative autoethnography and contribute to the literature in two ways. First, we show that while academic identities are put into motion by the neoliberal regime, they are constructed through mundane constellations of places and social entities. Second, we elucidate how academic identities today are characterized by restlessness and how academics use place and time to find meaning for themselves and their work. We propose a form of criticism to neoliberal universities that is sensitive to positionalities and places and offer ideas on how to build shared understandings that help us survive in the face of neoliberal standards of academic “excellence.”

新自由主义，不稳定的工作以及对工作的控制会对学术认同产生多重影响，因为我们对效忠有价值的社会群体的忠诚以及与有意义地点的联系受到挑战。当新自由主义大学的身份受到越来越多的研究关注时，文献中却没有注意到位置感。我们从事合作的民族志研究，并以两种方式为文学做出贡献。首先，我们表明，新自由主义政权推动了学术认同的产生，但它们却是由世俗的场所和社会实体组成的。第二，我们阐明当今学术身份如何表现出躁动不安的特征，以及学者如何利用时间和时间为自己及其工作寻找意义。