Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education
Neoliberal Policies of Funding and Management
Editors: Gupta, Suman, Habjan, Jernej, Tutek, Hrvoje (Eds.)
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- About this book
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This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors. Recent and current re-organisations of higher education and research work, and re-orientations of academic life (as students, researchers, teachers) generally, which are taking place around the world, achieve exactly the opposite of what they claim: though ostensibly undertaken to facilitate employment, these moves actually produce unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors.
- About the authors
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Suman Gupta is Chair in Literature and Cultural History at The Open University, UK. His published books include Re-Reading Harry Potter (2003, 2009), Social Constructionist Identity Politics and Literary Studies (2007), Imagining Iraq (2011), Consumable Texts in Contemporary India (2015) and Philology and Global English Studies (2015).
Jernej Habjan is Research Fellow at the literary institute of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia. He has co-edited, with Jessica Whyte, (Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy (2014).
Hrvoje Tutek is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He is currently finishing his dissertation in the DFG research group ‘Globalization and Literature’ at the University of Munich. He was an active participant in the 2009 Croatian student protests against state budget cuts aimed at public universities.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction: Academia and the Production of Unemployment
Pages 1-20
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The Implausible Knowledge Triangle of the Western Balkans
Pages 23-39
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Human and Inhuman Capital, and Schooling: The Case of Slovenia
Pages 41-55
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Privatising Minds: New Educational Policies in India
Pages 57-78
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‘Academic Leadership’ and the Conditions of Academic Work
Pages 81-102
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education
- Book Subtitle
- Neoliberal Policies of Funding and Management
- Editors
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- Suman Gupta
- Jernej Habjan
- Hrvoje Tutek
- Series Title
- Palgrave Critical University Studies
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-49324-8
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-49324-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-49323-1
- Series ISSN
- 2662-7329
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 252
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics
