Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume II: Prising Open the Cracks

Catherine Manathunga; Dorothy Bottrell

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95834-7

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Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume II: Prising Open the Cracks

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Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume II: Prising Open the Cracks

Catherine Manathunga and Dorothy Bottrell

Palgrave Macmillan

2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95834-7

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Specialist Studies in Education

Higher Education

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.

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Title: Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume II: Prising Open the Cracks
Authors: Catherine Manathunga (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
Dorothy Bottrell (Editor) - University of Sydney
Publication details: 325
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date published: 2019
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95834-7
ISBN: 9783319958330
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: 99451320202621
Output Type: Edited book

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