| The Alienated Academic: The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Hall, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030068285 ISBN-13: 9783030068288 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $66.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Policy & Reform - Education | Higher - Social Science | Sociology - Social Theory |
| Dewey: 107 |
| Series: Marxism and Education |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.80 lbs) 273 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are repurposed for value. Discourses of entrepreneurship, impact and excellence, realised through competition and the market, mean that academics and students are increasingly alienated from themselves and their work. This book applies Marx's concept of alienation to the realities of academic life in the Global North, in order to explore how the idea of public education is subsumed under the law of value. In a landscape of increased commodification of higher education, the book explores the relationship between alienation and crisis, before analysing how academic knowledge, work, identity and life are themselves alienated. Finally, it argues that through indignant struggle, another world is possible, grounded in alternative forms of organising life and producing socially-useful knowledge, ultimately requiring the abolition of academic labour. This pioneering work will be of interest and value to all those working in the higher education sector, as well as those concerned with the rise of neoliberalism and marketization within universities. |
