Social Production of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Age - Debating the Challenges Facing Higher Education

Authors from the social sciences and humanities discuss the neoliberal re-structuring of higher education and the possibilities for progressive change to the social production of knowledge (teaching and research) in universities.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Editors' Introduction
Part 1 Authoritarian Neoliberalism Challenged
1. The Feudal University in the Age of Gaming the System
Cruickshank, J.
2. Ethnoracial Populism: An Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization?
Antonio, R.J.
3. On Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Poetic Epistemology
Hall, R.
Engagements
4. The Perils of Radical Subjectivity. A Comment on Antonio's 'Ethnoracial Populism: An Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization?'
Queiroz, R.
5. The American University, the Politics of Professors and the Narrative of 'Liberal Bias'
Tyson, C. and Oreskes, N.
6. Epistemic Institutions: The Case for Constitutionally-Protected Academic Independence
Milne, O.
7. 'Let us Build a City and a Tower': Figures of the University in Gregor Reisch's (1503) Margarita Philosophica
Hudson-Miles, R.
8. Toward a Civic Ethic for Education: Arnold, Eliot (George) and Du Bois
Lybeck, E.
Part 2 Technology: Problems and Potentials
9. The Anthropocene as a Figure of Neoliberal Hegemony
Abbi

About the author

Justin Cruickshank is a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham, with research interests in critical university studies, critical responses to authoritarian neoliberalism, and the philosophy of social science.Ross Abbinnett is a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham, with research interests in classical and contemporary critical theory, and the social theory and philosophy of technology and technocracy.

Summary

Authors from the social sciences and humanities discuss the neoliberal re-structuring of higher education and the possibilities for progressive change to the social production of knowledge (teaching and research) in universities.

Product details

• Authors: Justin Abbinnett Cruickshank
• Assisted by: Ross Abbinnett (Editor), Justin Cruickshank (Editor), Cruickshank Justin (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781538161401
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6140-1
• No. of pages: 414
• Series: Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society; Collective Studies in Knowledg
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Higher education, tertiary education, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher