Universities in the Neoliberal Era

. Ed(s): Cosar, Simten; Ergul, Hakan

ISBN 10: 1137552115 / ISBN 13: 9781137552112

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

About this Item

Editor(s): Cosar, Simten; Ergul, Hakan. Series: Palgrave Critical University Studies. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JN; JNF; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. . . 2017. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Universities in the Neoliberal Era
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137552115
• ISBN 13: 9781137552112
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 voices that matter – the book reviews first hand experiences from different societies and university cultures located within the European and semi-Mediterranean landscape, including the Czech Republic, Morocco, Turkey, and United Kingdom. 

By bringing together original fieldworks combining the structural analysis of the neoliberal shift with the academic individual’s repositioning, struggle and response, the book documents a number of similarities and differences experienced in different academic cultures. The chapters present a rich variety of subjects, including academic labor, academic identity and knowledge production, (un)employment, (in)equality, academicfeminism, oppression and resistance from ethnographic, political and sociological perspectives. This timely and insightful volume will appeal to researchers, academics, students and advocates of academic freedom from different disciplines and academic cultures whose agendas prioritize higher education policies, university systems, academic production and academic labor.   

About the Author

Hakan Ergül is an associate professor at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. He has teaching and research experience in Turkey and abroad in the areas of media and vulnerable groups, media ethnography, television and journalism studies and has published books and articles pertaining to these fields. He is currently conducting a comparative ethnographic research (with Simten Coşar) on neoliberal transformation of higher education.

Simten Coşar is a professor at Hacettepe University, Turkey, and has published on Turkish politics, feminist politics, and political thought. She is the co-editor of Silent Violence: Neoliberalism, Islamist Politics and the AKP Years in Turkey, and has been continuing  with her comparative research on the feminist encounters in neoliberal academia, as part of a broader comparative ethnographic research (with Hakan Ergül) on neoliberal transformation of higher education.