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The Social Production of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Age - Debating the Challenges Facing Higher Education (Hardcover)
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The Social Production of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Age - Debating the Challenges Facing Higher Education (Hardcover)
Series: Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
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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.
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