The Social Production of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Age
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-6140-1 (ISBN)
Higher education exposes a key paradox of neoliberalism. The project of neoliberalism was said to be that of rolling back the state to liberate individuals, by replacing government bureaucracy with the free market. Rather than have the market serve individuals however, individuals were to serve the market. The marketisation ‘reforms’ in higher education, which sought to reshape knowledge production, with students investing in human capital and academics producing ‘transferable’ research, to make higher education of use to the economy, has resulted in extensive government bureaucracy and oppressive managerialist bureaucracy which is inefficient and expensive. Neoliberalism has always had authoritarian aspects and these are now coming to bear on universities. The state does not want critical and informed graduate citizens, but a hollowed out public sphere defined by consumption, willing servitude to the market and deference to state power. Attempts to reshape universities with bureaucracy are now accompanied by a culture war, attacking the production of critical knowledge. The authors in this book explore these issues and the possibilities for resistance and progressive change.
Justin Cruickshank is a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham, with research interests in critical university studies, critical responses to authoritarian neoliberalism, and the philosophy of social science. Ross Abbinnett is a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham, with research interests in classical and contemporary critical theory, and the social theory and philosophy of technology and technocracy.
Acknowledgements
Editors’ Introduction
Part 1 Authoritarian Neoliberalism Challenged
1. The Feudal University in the Age of Gaming the System
Cruickshank, J.
2. Ethnoracial Populism: An Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization?
Antonio, R.J.
3. On Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Poetic Epistemology
Hall, R.
Engagements
4. The Perils of Radical Subjectivity. A Comment on Antonio’s ‘Ethnoracial Populism: An Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization?’
Queiroz, R.
5. The American University, the Politics of Professors and the Narrative of ‘Liberal Bias’
Tyson, C. and Oreskes, N.
6. Epistemic Institutions: The Case for Constitutionally-Protected Academic Independence
Milne, O.
7. ‘Let us Build a City and a Tower’: Figures of the University in Gregor Reisch’s (1503) Margarita Philosophica
Hudson-Miles, R.
8. Toward a Civic Ethic for Education: Arnold, Eliot (George) and Du Bois
Lybeck, E.
Part 2 Technology: Problems and Potentials
9. The Anthropocene as a Figure of Neoliberal Hegemony
Abbi
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.04.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society |
| Zusatzinfo | 8 b/w photos; 1 tables; |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 227 mm |
| Gewicht | 816 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-6140-0 / 1538161400 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-6140-1 / 9781538161401 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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