The Social Production of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Age - Debating the Challenges Facing Higher Education (Hardcover)

Higher education exposes a key paradox of neoliberalism. The project of neoliberalism was said to be that of rolling back the state to liberate individuals, by replacing government bureaucracy with the free market. Rather than have the market serve individuals however, individuals were to serve the market. The marketisation 'reforms' in higher education, which sought to reshape knowledge production, with students investing in human capital and academics producing 'transferable' research, to make higher education of use to the economy, has resulted in extensive government bureaucracy and oppressive managerialist bureaucracy which is inefficient and expensive. Neoliberalism has always had authoritarian aspects and these are now coming to bear on universities. The state does not want critical and informed graduate citizens, but a hollowed out public sphere defined by consumption, willing servitude to the market and deference to state power. Attempts to reshape universities with bureaucracy are now accompanied by a culture war, attacking the production of critical knowledge. The authors in this book explore these issues and the possibilities for resistance and progressive change.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
Release date:	April 2022
Editors:	Justin Cruickshank • Ross Abbinnett
Dimensions:	227 x 160 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	414
ISBN-13:	978-1-5381-6140-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
LSN:	1-5381-6140-0
Barcode:	9781538161401

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