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The Knowledge Business - The Commodification of Urban and Housing Research (Paperback)
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The Knowledge Business - The Commodification of Urban and Housing Research (Paperback)
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This book provides a critique of the knowledge business, and
describes and evaluates its different manifestations in, and
impacts on, the university sector. Its focus is the social sciences
and, in particular, housing and urban studies. Drawing on a wide
range of experiences, both in the UK and elsewhere, it illustrates
the changing management of the academy, and the development, by
university managers, of instruments or techniques of control to
ensure that academics are disciplined in ways that are commensurate
with achieving commercial goals. The individual chapters highlight
the different ways in which the academy is being put to work for
commercial gain, and they evaluate how far the public service ethos
of the universities is coming apart in a context in which what is
to be serviced is increasingly a private clientele defined by their
'ability to pay'. The Knowledge Business examines the
contradictions and tensions associated with these processes,
highlighting the implications for the academic labour process, and
the future of the academy.
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