Academia In Crisis: The Rise And Risk Of Neoliberal Education In Europe

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Academia is standing at a junction in time. Behind lies the community of the curious, ahead the mass and the market. This book joins in a growing stream of works that explore the vicissitudes of present-day European universities in what Bauman coined as liquid times. Here, a number of concerned (engaged) European scholars attempt to defend and brush up academic core values and practices, starting from their own life worlds and positions in higher education. They share the view that there is no point in turning back, nor in mechanically marching straight on. Above all, they uphold that there is no alternative to treasuring academia as a space for thinking together. Hopefully the fruit of this sine qua non invites to think with, and envision academic activism. Contributors are Samuel Abraham, Stefano Bianchini, Simon Charlesworth, Leonidas Donskis, Frans Kamsteeg, Joost van Loon, Ida Sabelis, Tamara Shefer and Harry Wels. 9789004402034......Page 1 9789004402034_webready_content_text......Page 2 Academia in Crisis: The Rise and Risk of Neoliberal Education in Europe......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Notes on Contributors......Page 8 Introductory Thoughts......Page 12 1 Toward an Educational Dystopia? Liquid Evil, TINA, and Post-academic University......Page 22 2 Academic Homecoming. Stories from the Field......Page 47 3 Universities as Laboratories. Internationalisation and the Liquidity of National Learning......Page 64 4 Liberal Arts to the Rescue of the Bachelor's Degree in Europe......Page 93 5 Academia in the Fast Lane vs. Organisational Ethnography and the Logic of Slow Food......Page 122 6 Timescapes in Academic Life. Cubicles of Time Control......Page 140 7 A Nomad of Academia. A Thematic Autobiography of Privilege......Page 161 8 The Truth is Out There: 'Educated fo' Bollocks. Uni's Just Institutional Daylight Robbery'. Universities in Crisis? What's New?......Page 180 Epilogue......Page 206 Index......Page 210