Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume II

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Prising Open the Cracks in Neoliberal Universities

   • Catherine Manathunga, Dorothy Bottrell

   Pages 1-22

3. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. The New Culture Wars in Australian University Workplaces

      • Paul Adams

      Pages 25-42

   3. Weighing Up Futures: Experiences of Giving Up an Academic Career

      • Ruth Barcan

      Pages 43-64

   4. Resisting the Norming of the Neoliberal Academic Subject: Building Resistance Across Faculty Ranks

      • Joseph M. Schwartz

      Pages 65-88

   5. Creating a Positive Casual Academic Identity Through Change and Loss

      • Joanne Yoo

      Pages 89-107

4. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. On (Not) Losing My Religion: Interrogating Gendered Forms of White Virtue in Pre-possessed Countries

      • Fiona Nicoll

      Pages 111-132

   3. Academic Collaboration in Pursuit of Decolonisation: The Story of the Aboriginal History Archive

      • Edwina Howell

      Pages 133-151

5. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Assessment Policy and “Pockets of Freedom” in a Neoliberal University: A Foucauldian Perspective

      • Rille Raaper

      Pages 155-175

   3. Professional Doctorates as Spaces of Collegiality and Resistance: A Cross-Sectoral Exploration of the Cracks in Neoliberal Institutions

      • Catherine Manathunga, Peter Shay, Rosemarie Garner, Preetha Kolakkot Jayaram, Paul Barber, Bhatti Thi Kim Oanh et al.

      Pages 177-198

   4. Interrogating the “Idea of the University” Through the Pleasures of Reading Together

      • Tai Peseta, Jeanette Fyffe, Fiona Salisbury

      Pages 199-217

   5. Neoliberalism in Thai and Indonesian Universities: Using Photo-Elicitation Methods to Picture Space for Possibility

      • James Burford, Teguh Wijaya Mulya

      Pages 219-245

   6. Making Visible Collegiality of a Different Kind

      • Mark Selkrig, Ron “Kim” Keamy, Kirsten Sadler, Catherine Manathunga

      Pages 247-269

   7. Seeking an Institution-Decentring Politics to Regain Purpose for Australian University Futures

      • Marie Brennan, Lew Zipin

      Pages 271-292

   8. Prising Open the Cracks Through Polyvalent Lines of Inquiry

      • Catherine Manathunga, Dorothy Bottrell

      Pages 293-319

6. Back Matter

   Pages 321-325

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This book outlines the creative responses academics are using to subvert powerful market forces that restrict university work to a neoliberal, economic focus. The second volume in a diptych of critical academic work on the changing landscape of neoliberal universities, the editors and contributors examine how academics ‘prise open the cracks’ in neoliberal logic to find space for resistance, collegiality, democracy and hope. Adopting a distinctly postcolonial positioning, the volume interrogates the link between neoliberalism and the ongoing privileging of Euro-American theorising in universities. The contributors move from accounts of unmitigated managerialism and toxic workplaces, to the need to decolonise the academy to, finally, illustrating the various creative and counter-hegemonic practices academics use to resist, subvert and reinscribe dominant neoliberal discourses. This hopeful volume will appeal to students and scholars interested in the role of universities in advancing cultural democracy, as well as university staff, academics and students.

• Neoliberalism within Higher Education
• Managerialism
• Positive praxis
• Neoliberal institutions
• The New Culture Wars

• School of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Australia

  Catherine Manathunga

• School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  Dorothy Bottrell

Catherine Manathunga is Professor of Education Research at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. An historian who draws together interdisciplinary expertise to bring an innovative perspective to higher education research, she has published widely on doctoral education, cultural diversity and academic identity.



Dorothy Bottrell is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia and casual HDR Supervisor at Victoria University, Australia. Her research interest in critical studies in higher education centres on academic resilience and she has published widely on youth, crime, and education studies.

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