Universities in the Neoliberal Era Academic Cultures and Critical Perspectives [Hardcover]

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 individuals 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, academic feminism, 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.   

Chapter 1. Editorial Introduction; Hakan Erg?l & Simten Co_ar.- 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; ?zg?r Budak.- Chapter 4. Turkish Academics Encounters with the Index in Social Sciences; Eda ?etinkaya.- PART II. STORIES OF MEDlcö