Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume II
Prising Open the Cracks
Editors: Manathunga, Catherine, Bottrell, Dorothy (Eds.)
Free Preview- Constitutes the second volume in this diptych exploring the damaging effects of neoliberalism upon universities
- Analyses how academics can create space for resistance, hope and optimism
- Explores a wide range of viewpoints and discourses to analyse the link between neoliberalism and the privileging of Euro-American theorising in universities
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- About this book
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This book outlines the creative responses academics are using to subvert powerful market forces that restrict university work to a neoliberal, economic focus. The second volume in a diptych of critical academic work on the changing landscape of neoliberal universities, the editors and contributors examine how academics ‘prise open the cracks’ in neoliberal logic to find space for resistance, collegiality, democracy and hope. Adopting a distinctly postcolonial positioning, the volume interrogates the link between neoliberalism and the ongoing privileging of Euro-American theorising in universities. The contributors move from accounts of unmitigated managerialism and toxic workplaces, to the need to decolonise the academy to, finally, illustrating the various creative and counter-hegemonic practices academics use to resist, subvert and reinscribe dominant neoliberal discourses. This hopeful volume will appeal to students and scholars interested in the role of universities in advancing cultural democracy, as well as university staff, academics and students.
- About the authors
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Catherine Manathunga is Professor of Education Research at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. An historian who draws together interdisciplinary expertise to bring an innovative perspective to higher education research, she has published widely on doctoral education, cultural diversity and academic identity.
Dorothy Bottrell is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia and casual HDR Supervisor at Victoria University, Australia. Her research interest in critical studies in higher education centres on academic resilience and she has published widely on youth, crime, and education studies.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Prising Open the Cracks in Neoliberal Universities
Pages 1-22
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The New Culture Wars in Australian University Workplaces
Pages 25-42
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Weighing Up Futures: Experiences of Giving Up an Academic Career
Pages 43-64
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Resisting the Norming of the Neoliberal Academic Subject: Building Resistance Across Faculty Ranks
Pages 65-88
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Creating a Positive Casual Academic Identity Through Change and Loss
Pages 89-107
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume II
- Book Subtitle
- Prising Open the Cracks
- Editors
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- Catherine Manathunga
- Dorothy Bottrell
- Series Title
- Palgrave Critical University Studies
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-95834-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-95834-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-95833-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 325
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
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