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Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual: Species, Gender and Class and the Production of Knowledge
Heather Fraser
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Description for Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual: Species, Gender and Class and the Production of Knowledge
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Critical University Studies. Num Pages: 155 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JNA; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 336.
This book employs an an intersectional feminist approach to highlight how research and teaching agendas are being skewed by commercialized, corporatized and commodified values and assumptions implicit in the neoliberalization of the academy. The authors combine 50 years of academic experience and focus on species, gender and class as they document the hazardous consequences of seeing people as instruments and knowledge as a form of capital. Personal-political examples are provided to illustrate some of the challenges but also opportunities facing activist scholars trying to resist neoliberalism. Heartfelt, frank, and unashamedly emotional, the book is a rallying cry for academics to ... Read more
This book employs an an intersectional feminist approach to highlight how research and teaching agendas are being skewed by commercialized, corporatized and commodified values and assumptions implicit in the neoliberalization of the academy. The authors combine 50 years of academic experience and focus on species, gender and class as they document the hazardous consequences of seeing people as instruments and knowledge as a form of capital. Personal-political examples are provided to illustrate some of the challenges but also opportunities facing activist scholars trying to resist neoliberalism. Heartfelt, frank, and unashamedly emotional, the book is a rallying cry for academics to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Palgrave Critical University Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
142
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137579089
SKU
V9781137579089
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About Heather Fraser
Heather Fraser is Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, Australia and is a feminist social work academic with twenty-five years teaching subjects such as human rights based social work practice and anti-oppressive practice. She has published in community work, narrative analysis, critical social work and social action and advocacy, and more recently, human-animal studies and animal assisted social work. ... Read more
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