Book chapter
Prising open the cracks through polyvalent lines of inquiry
Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education, Volume II: Prising Open the Cracks, pp.293-320
Palgrave Macmillan
2019
Abstract
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. [Book Synopsis]
Details
- Title
- Prising open the cracks through polyvalent lines of inquiry
- Authors
- Catherine Manathunga (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and EngineeringDorothy Bottrell (Author) - University of Sydney
- Contributors
- Catherine Manathunga (Editor)Dorothy Bottrell (Editor)
- Publication details
- Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education, Volume II: Prising Open the Cracks, pp.293-320
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Date published
- 2019
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-95834-7_14
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451391302621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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- Web Of Science research areas
- Economics
- Education & Educational Research
- Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary