Universities in the neoliberal era : academic cultures and critical perspectives / Hakan Ergül, Simten Coşar, editors.

This book explores the question of how and to what extent the ongoing neoliberal transformation of higher education exerts influence on the university and academic everyday life in different societies. By listening to, observing, and comparing the critical voices of academics and students -- the voi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Ergül, Hakan, 1972- (Editor), Coşar, Simten (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Series:Palgrave critical university studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Editorial Introduction; Hakan Ergül & Simten Coşar
  • PART I. EMERGING CULTURES: BETWEEN NEOLIBERAL KNOW-HOW AND ACADEMIC UNIVERSALS
  • Chapter 2. Beyond the Third Mission: Towards an Actor-Based Account of Universities' Relationship with Society; Jana Bacevic
  • Chapter 3. Searching for Authenticity and Success: Academic Identity and Production in Neoliberal Times; Özgür Budak
  • Chapter 4. Turkish Academics' Encounters with the Index in Social Sciences; Eda Çetinkaya
  • PART II. STORIES OF MEDIATION, NEGOTIATION AND RESILIENCE
  • Chapter 5. Variegated Neoliberalization in Higher Education: Ambivalent Responses to Competitive Funding in the Czech Republic; Josef Kavka
  • Chapter 6. Creating Jobs for the Social Good: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Model of Education for Employment; Shana Cohen
  • Chapter 7. Transformation, Reformation or Decline? The University in Contemporary Morocco and Turkey; Hakan Ergül, Simten Coşar & Fadma Ait-Mous
  • PART III. VOICES OF DISSENT
  • Chapter 8. The Historico-Political Parameters of Academic Feminism in Turkey: Breaks and Continuities; İnci Özkan Kerestecioğlu & Aylin Özman
  • Chapter 9. 'Homo Academicus' in University Inc.: The 'Ersatz' Yuppie Academic; Hasan Ünal Nalbantoğlu.