Overview
- Represents one of the few qualitative investigations that explore the influence of the neoliberal transformations on the academic everyday life
- Provides first hand experiences and the critical voices of academics and students from different societies and academic cultures located within the European and semi-Mediterranean landscape
- Covers a broad and strongly interconnected spectrum of subjects related to the ongoing neoliberal restructuring, including academic labor and knowledge production, (in)equality, identity, oppression and resistance from ethnographic, political, sociological and feminist perspectives
Part of the book series: Palgrave Critical University Studies (PCU)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Emerging Cultures: Between Neoliberal Know-How and Academic Universals
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Stories of Mediation, Negotiation and Resilience
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About this book
By bringing together original fieldworks combining the structural analysis of the neoliberal shift with the academic individual’s repositioning, struggle and response, the book documents a number of similarities and differences experienced in different academic cultures. The chapters present a rich variety of subjects, including academic labor, academic identity and knowledge production, (un)employment, (in)equality, academicfeminism, oppression and resistance from ethnographic, political and sociological perspectives. This timely and insightful volume will appeal to researchers, academics, students and advocates of academic freedom from different disciplines and academic cultures whose agendas prioritize higher education policies, university systems, academic production and academic labor.
Reviews
“The neoliberal transformation of universities has been lived by academics, rarely analysed by them. We know most about its consequences in the US and UK, and little from anywhere about its consequences for daily practice and resistance. Hakan Ergül and Simten Coşar's courageous book is therefore doubly remarkable: for drawing together experiences from many countries outside the West, and for exploring ethnographically how neoliberal culture works and sometimes can be challenged on the ground. A landmark book in a long struggle.” (Nick Couldry, author of “Why Voice Matters”, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
“Not only an important book on the global influence of neoliberal ideology, policies, and practices on higher education, but a much-needed analysis of how these affect the lives and experiences of a diverse group of faculty and students within European and Mediterranean societies ... . Merging a critique of neoliberal assaults on HE with itseffects on everyday practices, it provides a range of interventions to create a new space for understanding how neoliberal policies operate and what it might mean to resist them… A crucial book for assessing one of the most dangerous trends HE has ever faced, and should be read by everyone concerned about HE as a site of critical thought, the role of academics as engaged critical agents, and the mission of HE as a democratic public sphere.” (Henry Giroux, Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest, McMaster University, Canada)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Simten Coşar is a professor at Hacettepe University, Turkey, and has published on Turkish politics, feminist politics, and political thought. She is the co-editor of Silent Violence: Neoliberalism, Islamist Politics and the AKP Years in Turkey, and has been continuing with her comparative research on the feminist encounters in neoliberal academia, as part of a broader comparative ethnographic research (with Hakan Ergül) on neoliberal transformation of higher education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Universities in the Neoliberal Era
Book Subtitle: Academic Cultures and Critical Perspectives
Editors: Hakan Ergül, Simten Coşar
Series Title: Palgrave Critical University Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55212-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55211-2Published: 13 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55212-9Published: 04 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-7329
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7337
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 292
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Education Policy