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Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education

Author : Anthony J. Nocella

Publisher : Radical Animal Studies and Total Liberation

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 32,31 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Academic freedom

ISBN : 9781433133138

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Ward Churchill : Foreword: Remembering the Future? - Emma Pérez: Preface - Acknowledgments - Anthony J.Nocella II/Erik Juergensmeyer: Introduction-A Tactical Toolbox for Smashing Academic Repression - Part I.Neoliberal Education - Nick Clare/Gregory White/Richard J.White: Striking Out! Challenging Academic Repression in the Neoliberal University through Alternative Forms of Resistance: Some Lessons from the United Kingdom - Mary Heath/Peter Burdon: Academic Resistance: Landscape of Hope and Despair - Mark Seis: Parasites, Sycophants, and Rebels: Resisting Threats to Faculty Governance - Part II.Resisting - Camila Bassi: On Identity Politics, Ressentiment, and the Evacuation of Human Emancipation - Conor Cash/Geoff Boyce: Cutting Class: On Schoolwork, Entropy, and Everyday Resistance in Higher Education - Erik Juergensmeyer/Sue Doe: Owning Curriculum: Megafoundations, the State, and Writing Programs - Part III.Reclaiming - Laura L.Finley: Bureaucratic Stifling of Student and Faculty: Reclaiming College and University Campuses - Ryan Thomson: Reclaiming Campus as an Event Site: A Comparative Discussion of Student Resistance Tactics - John Lupinacci: Interrupt, Inspire, and Expose: Anarchist Pedagogy against Academic Repression - Part IV.Organizing - Diana Vallera: One of the Best Contracts in the Nation? How Part-time Faculty Organized for a Collective Bargaining Agreement - Sean Donaghue-Johnston/Tanya Loughead: Organizing Adjuncts and Citizenship within the Academy - Emil Marmol/Mary Jean Hande/Raluca Bejan: On Strike in the Ivory Tower: Academic Repression of Labor Organizing - Part V.Black Lives Matter In Education - Shannon Gibney: Racial Harassment in the "Postracial" Era: A Case of Discipline and Resistance in the Black Female Body - Kelly Limes-Taylor Henderson: On Academic Repression, Blackness, and Storytelling as Resistance - Z.B. Hurst: Black Student Unions and Identity: Navigating Oppression in Higher Education - Afterword: Southwest Colorado Sociology Collective - Contributors' Biographies - Index



Neoliberalism and Academic Repression

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 40,58 MB

Release : 2019-10-29

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 900441553X

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Neoliberalism and Academic Repression: The Fall of Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump, co-edited by Erik Juergensmeyer, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Mark Seis, provides a theoretical examination of the current higher education system and explains how academia is being shaped into a corporate-factory-industrial-complex. This complex is transforming the relationships within and beyond the institution, transforming the mission of higher education from being the foundation of democracy to manager of professionalism. The outstanding contributors offer strategies of social change, policy suggestions, and important critiques of neoliberal practices. This timely collection challenges the neoliberal emphasis on valuation based on job readiness and outcome achievement—promoting equity, justice, and inclusivity in the process. Contributors include: Camila Bassi, Brad Benz, A. Peter Castro, Taine Duncan, Sarah Giragosian, Erik Juergensmeyer, Caroline K. Kaltefleiter, Peter N. Kirstein, Emil Marmol, Anthony J. Nocella II, Ben Ristow, JL Schatz, Mark Seis, Jeff Shantz, Kim Socha, Richard J. White.



Higher Education, State Repression, and Neoliberal Reform in Nicaragua

Author : Wendi Bellanger

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 12,75 MB

Release : 2022-09-27

Category : Education

ISBN : 100062868X

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This innovative volume makes a key contribution to debates around the role of the university as a space of resistance by highlighting the liberatory practices undertaken to oppose dual pressures of state repression and neoliberal reform at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in Nicaragua. Using a critical ethnographic approach to frame the experiences of faculty and students through vignettes, chapters present contextualized, analytical contributions from students, scholars, and university leaders to draw attention to the activism present within teaching, research, and administration while simultaneously calling attention to critical higher education and international solidarity as crucial means of maintaining academic freedom, university autonomy, oppositional knowledge production, and social outreach in higher education globally. This text will benefit researchers, students, and academics in the fields of higher education, educational policy and politics, and international and comparative education. Those interested in equality and human rights, Central America, and the themes of revolution and protest more broadly will also benefit from this volume.



Academic Repression

Author : Anthony J. Nocella

Publisher :

Page : 606 pages

File Size : 42,5 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Education

ISBN :

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After 9/11, the Bush administration pressured universities to hand over faculty, staff and student work to be flagged for potential threats. This edited anthology brings together hard-hitting essays from prominent academics to address the pressing issue of whether academic freedom still exists in the American university system. As such, it addresses not only overt attacks on critical thinking, but also - following trends unfolding for decades - engages the broad socio-economic determinants of academic culture.



The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography

Author : Sarah A. Lovell

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 583 pages

File Size : 14,69 MB

Release : 2022-10-18

Category : Science

ISBN : 1000636615

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The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography is the defining reference for academics and postgraduate students seeking an advanced understanding of the debates, methodological developments and methods transforming research in human geography. Divided into three sections, Part I reviews how the methods of contemporary human geography reflect the changing intellectual history of human geography and events both within human geography and society in general. In Part II, authors critically appraise key methodological and theoretical challenges and opportunities that are shaping contemporary research in various parts of human geography. Contemporary directions within the discipline are elaborated on by established and emerging researchers who are leading ontological debates and the adoption of innovative methods in geographic research. In Part III, authors explore cross-cutting methodological challenges and prompt questions about the values and goals underpinning geographical research work, such as: Who are we engaging in our research? Who is our research ‘for’? What are our relationships with communities? Contributors emphasize examples from their research and the research of others to reflect the fluid, emotional and pragmatic realities of research. This handbook captures key methodological developments and disciplinary influences emerging from the various sub-disciplines of human geography.



Imperatives for Legal Education Research

Author : Ben Golder

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 243 pages

File Size : 17,12 MB

Release : 2019-08-28

Category : Law

ISBN : 0429759878

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In the last few decades university teaching has been recognised as an activity which can be studied and improved through educational scholarship. In some disciplines this is now well established. It remains emergent in legal education. The field is rich with questions to be answered, issues to be raised. This book provides the first overall review of legal education scholarship. The chapters outline the history of legal education research and provide a detailed analysis of the trends in areas of publication. Beyond this, the book suggests a typology for further conceptualising the field and a series of suggested paths for future research. The book originated from the 2017 UNSW conference "Research in Legal Education: State of the Art?" It features internationally respected authors who bring their perspectives on how legal education – as a field of research – should be conceptualised. The collection is arranged into three themes. First, a historical view is taken of the emergence of legal education scholarship and its roots that predate modern educational theory. Secondly, the book provides overviews of the extant field of publications, highlighting areas of interest and neglect, and delineating the trends in current publication. Thirdly, the book provides a set of suggested typologies for describing legal education research and a series of essays for future directions which both critique current approaches and provide inspiration for future directions. The State of Legal Education Research represents an authoritative introduction to the field, a set of conceptual tools with which to describe it, and inspiration for researchers to expand and grow research into legal education.



Neoliberalizing the University: Implications for American Democracy

Author : Sanford Schram

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 350 pages

File Size : 11,57 MB

Release : 2017-10-02

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 131727167X

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This collection brings together essays to address the crisis of Higher Education today, focusing on its neoliberalization. Higher Education has been under assault for several decades as neoliberalism’s preference for market-based reforms sweeps across the US political economy. The recent push for neoliberalizing the academy comes at a time when it is ripe for change, especially as it continues to confront growing financial pressure, particularly in the public sector. The resulting cutbacks in public funding, especially to state universities, led to a variety of debilitating changes: increases in tuition, growing student debt, more students combining working and schooling, declining graduation rates for minorities and low-income students, increased reliance on adjuncts and temporary faculty, and most recently growing interest in mass processing of students via online instruction. While many serious questions arise once we begin to examine what is happening in higher education today, one particularly critical question concerns the implications of these changes on the relationship of education to as yet still unrealized democratic ideals. The 12 essays collected in this volume create important resources for students, faculty, citizens and policymakers who want to find ways to address contemporary threats to the higher education-democracy connection. This book was originally published as a special issue of New Political Science.



Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 522 pages

File Size : 32,49 MB

Release : 2019-05-15

Category : Education

ISBN : 900440046X

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While education is an inherently political field and practice, and while the political struggles that radical philosophy takes up necessarily involve education, there remains much to be done at the intersection of education and radical philosophy. That so many intense political struggles today actually center educational processes and institutions makes this gap all the more pressing. Yet in order for this work to be done, we need to begin to establish common frameworks and languages in and with which to move. Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education takes up this crucial and urgent task. Dozens of emerging and leading activists, organizers, and scholars assemble a collective body of concepts to interrogate, provoke, and mobilize contemporary political, economic, and social struggles. This wide-ranging edited collection covers key and innovative philosophical and educational themes—from animals, sex, wind, and praxis, to studying, podcasting, debt, and students. This field-defining work is a necessary resource for all activists and academics interested in exploring the latest conceptual contributions growing out of the intersection of social struggles and the university. Contributors are: Rebecca Alexander, Barbara Applebaum, David Backer, Jesse Bazzul, Brian Becker, Jesse Benjamin, Matt Bernico, Elijah Blanton, Polina-Theopoula Chrysochou, Clayton Cooprider, Katie Crabtree, Noah De Lissovoy, Sandra Delgado, Dean Dettloff, Zeyad El Nabolsy, Derek R. Ford, Raúl Olmo Fregoso Bailón, Michelle Gautreaux, Salina Gray, Aashish Hemrajani, Caitlin Howlett, Khuram Hussain, Petar Jandrić, Colin Jenkins, Kelsey Dayle John, Lenore Kenny, Tyson E. Lewis, Curry Malott, Peter McLaren, Glenn Rikowski, Marelis Rivera, Alexa Schindel, Steven Singer, Ajit Singh, Nicole Snook, Devyn Springer, Sara Tolbert, Katherine Vroman, Anneliese Waalkes, Chris Widimaier, Savannah Jo Wilcek, David Wolken, Jason Wozniak, and Weili Zhao.



Foucault and Neoliberalism

Author : Daniel Zamora

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 155 pages

File Size : 20,85 MB

Release : 2016-01-06

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1509501800

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Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault was not a direct witness of these years, his work on neoliberalism is nonetheless prescient: the question of liberalism occupies an important place in his last works. Since his death, Foucault's conceptual apparatus has acquired a central, even dominant position for a substantial segment of the world's intellectual left. However, as the contributions to this volume demonstrate, Foucault's attitude towards neoliberalism was at least equivocal. Far from leading an intellectual struggle against free market orthodoxy, Foucault seems in many ways to endorse it. How is one to understand his radical critique of the welfare state, understood as an instrument of biopower? Or his support for the pandering anti-Marxism of the so-called new philosophers? Is it possible that Foucault was seduced by neoliberalism? This question is not merely of biographical interest: it forces us to confront more generally the mutations of the left since May 1968, the disillusionment of the years that followed and the profound transformations in the French intellectual field over the past thirty years. To understand the 1980s and the neoliberal triumph is to explore the most ambiguous corners of the intellectual left through one of its most important figures.



Karl Polanyi

Author : Gareth Dale

Publisher : Polity

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 11,78 MB

Release : 2010-06-21

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0745640710

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Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation is generally acclaimed as being among the most influential works of economic history in the twentieth century, and remains as vital in the current historical conjuncture as it was in his own. In its critique of nineteenth-century ‘market fundamentalism’ it reads as a warning to our own neoliberal age, and is widely touted as a prophetic guidebook for those who aspire to understand the causes and dynamics of global economic turbulence at the end of the 2000s. Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market is the first comprehensive introduction to Polanyi’s ideas and legacy. It assesses not only the texts for which he is famous – prepared during his spells in American academia – but also his journalistic articles written in his first exile in Vienna, and lectures and pamphlets from his second exile, in Britain. It provides a detailed critical analysis of The Great Transformation, but also surveys Polanyi’s seminal writings in economic anthropology, the economic history of ancient and archaic societies, and political and economic theory. Its primary source base includes interviews with Polanyi’s daughter, Kari Polanyi-Levitt, as well as the entire compass of his own published and unpublished writings in English and German. This engaging and accessible introduction to Polanyi’s thinking will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences, providing a refreshing perspective on the roots of our current economic crisis.