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Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume I

Seeing Through the Cracks

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Editors:
  1. Dorothy Bottrell

    1. School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  2. Catherine Manathunga

    1. School of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Australia

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  • Comprises the first volume of this diptych of critical academic work analysing the dominance of neoliberalism within universities
  • Exposes how academics can negotiate and exploit the 'cracks' or spaces within neoliberal managerialism
  • Highlights the lived experiences of changing academic roles and the realities of insitutional life

Part of the book series: Palgrave Critical University Studies (PCU)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Shedding Light on the Cracks in Neoliberal Universities

    • Dorothy Bottrell, Catherine Manathunga
    Pages 1-33

  3. Seeing Outside-In

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Twenty-First Century Feudalism in Australian Universities

      • Roberto Bergami
      Pages 37-58

    3. Double Negative: When the Neoliberal Meets the Toxic

      • Martin Andrew
      Pages 59-81

    4. When All Hope Is Gone: Truth, Lies and Make Believe

      • Mark Vicars
      Pages 83-96

    5. Truth-Telling the Dark Tourism of Australian Teacher Education

      • Mat Jakobi
      Pages 97-117

    6. Wrestling with Career: An Autoethnographic Tale of a Cracked Academic Self

      • Barbara M. Grant
      Pages 119-134

    7. Affective Subjectivation in the Precarious Neoliberal Academia

      • Paola Valero, Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Kristiina Brunila
      Pages 135-154

  4. Seeing Inside-Out

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Academic Wellbeing Under Rampant Managerialism: From Neoliberal to Critical Resilience

      • Dorothy Bottrell, Maree Keating
      Pages 157-178

    3. Creative Frictions in the Neoliberal University: Courting Blakness at The University of Queensland

      • Fiona Foley, Fiona Nicoll, Zala Volcic, Dominic O’Donnell
      Pages 179-203

    4. “Singing Up the Second Story”: Acts of Community Development Scholar “Delicate Activism” Within the Neoliberal University

      • Peter Westoby, Lynda Shevellar
      Pages 205-222

    5. Making ‘Visible’ the ‘Invisible’ Work of Academic Writing in an Audit Culture

      • Katarina Tuinamuana, Robyn Bentley-Williams, Joanne Yoo
      Pages 223-239

    6. Re-framing Literacy in Neoliberal Times: Teaching Poetry So Students Can See Through the Cracks

      • Mary Weaven
      Pages 241-258

    7. Revitalising Teacher Education Through Feminist Praxis: A Reflection on Challenging Systems of Patriarchy, Class and Colonialism

      • Claire Kelly
      Pages 259-282

    8. Educational Partnerships for Social Justice and Community Empowerment

      • Jo Williams
      Pages 283-302

    9. Cracked Continuities in the Project of Cultural Democracy: Silencing, Resistance and Privilege

      • Dorothy Bottrell, Catherine Manathunga
      Pages 303-328

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 329-336
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About this book

In light of the overwhelming presence of neoliberalism within academia, this book examines how academics resist and manage these changes. The first of two volumes, this diptych of critical academic work investigates generative spaces, or ‘cracks’ in neoliberal managerialism that can be exposed, negotiated, exploited and energised with renewed collegiality, subversion and creativity. The editors and contributors explore how academics continue to find space to work in collegial ways; defying the neoliberal logic of ‘brands’ and ‘cost centres’. Part I of this diptych illuminates the lived experiences of changing academic roles; portraying institutional life without the glossy filter of marketing campaigns and brochures, and revealing generative spaces through critical testimony, fiction, arts-based projects, feminist and Indigenous critical scholarship. It will be of interest and value to anyone concerned with neoliberalism in academia, as well as higher education more generally.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Dorothy Bottrell

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

    Catherine Manathunga

About the editors

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 and casual HDR Supervisor at Victoria University, Melbourne. 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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