Corporatization Environmental Sustainability of Australian - A Critical Perspective

Analysing the juxtaposition of two trends in universities - corporatisation and environmental sustainability - this book explores how they are more contradictory than compatible.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Capitalism, the Socio-Ecological Crisis, and Universities as Contradictory Spaces 2. The Sustainability Discourse in Corporate Universities Around the World 3. The Corporatisation of Australian Universities 4. Sustainability Policies, Practices, and Programs in Australian Universities 5. Sustainability Policies, Practices, and Programs at the University of Melbourne 6. Ecological Modernisation as a Hegemonic Academic Discourse in Grappling with Sustainability and Climate Change 7. How Environmentally Sustainable is the Internationalisation of Australian Higher Education? 8.Toward a Socially Just and Environmentally Sustainable University

About the author

Hans A Baer is an anthropologist affiliated with the University of Melbourne. His areas of research have included Mormonism, African American religion, socio-political life in East Germany, critical health anthropology, complementary medicine in the US, UK and Australia, higher education, climate change and sustainability, and eco-socialism.

Summary

Analysing the juxtaposition of two trends in universities - corporatisation and environmental sustainability - this book explores how they are more contradictory than compatible.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Baer, Baer Hans
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2023
• EAN: 9781032568096
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3256809-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Australia, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social groups, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, Social groups, communities and identities