Neoliberalism and Academic Repression: The Fall of Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump

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.

Erik Juergensmeyer, Ph.D. (2007), University of Arizona, is Professor of English at Fort Lewis College. He has published numerous books, articles and chapters on administration, pedagogy, and conflict resolution, including Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education, co-edited with Anthony J. Nocella II (Peter Lang, 2017).

Anthony Nocella, Ph.D. (2011), Syracuse University, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Salt Lake Community College. He has published numerous books on academic repression, anarchist criminology, anarchism and animal liberation, policing the campus, and work from incarcerated youth.

Mark Seis, Ph.D. (1996), Indiana University of Pennsylvania, is Professor Emeritus at Fort Lewis College. Most recently, he is the author of “An Anarchist Criminology for Understanding Environmental Degradation” in Contemporary Anarchist Criminology, which he co-edited with Anthony J. Nocella II and Jeff Shantz (2018).