Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume II

Prising Open the Cracks

325 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Palgrave Critical University Studies
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften Hochschulbildung, Fort- und Weiterbildung
• ISBN: 9783319958330
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.01.2019
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: Catherine Manathunga, Dorothy Bottrell