Learning Under Neoliberalism : : Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education / / ed. by Susan B. Hyatt, Boone W. Shear, Susan Wright.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Clarke, John,; Davis, Dána-Ain,; Greenwood, Davydd J.,; Hyatt, Susan Brin,; Lyon-Callo, Vincent,; Shear, Boone W.,; Shore, Cris,; Wright, Susan,; Zontine, Angelina I.,; Ørberg, Jakob Williams,
• HerausgeberIn: Hyatt, Susan B.,; Shear, Boone W.,; Wright, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)

As part of the neoliberal trends toward public-private partnerships, universities all over the world have forged more intimate relationships with corporate interests and more closely resemble for-profit corporations in both structure and practice. These transformations, accompanied by new forms of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: higher education, engaged anthropology and hegemonic struggle
• CHAPTER 1 ‘After neoliberalism’? The reform of New Zealand’s university system
• CHAPTER 2 Using ethnographic methods to understand universities and neoliberal development in North Central Philadelphia
• CHAPTER 3 To market, to market to buy a . . . middle-class life? Insecurity, anxiety and neoliberal education in Michigan
• CHAPTER 4 Reading neoliberalism at the university
• CHAPTER 5 So many strategies, so little time . . . making universities modern
• CHAPTER 6 Constructing fear in academia: neoliberal practices at a public college
• CHAPTER 7 Autonomy and control: Danish university reform in the context of modern governance
• Afterword
• Index