The Fables of the Academic Zoo: De‐Legitimizing Dominant Micro‐Practices Through Storytelling and Caring

ABSTRACT Contemporary academia is like a zoo where academics, like caged animals, are confined by dominant micro‐practices, creating an individualistic, competitive, and output‐driven neoliberal ecosystem. Although prior research highlights these practices, little is known about how to dismantle them, and rewrite the academic script. In this article, we unveil how to collectively de‐legitimize our…