Description: Authors from the social sciences and humanities discuss the neoliberal re-structuring of higher education and the possibilities for progressive change to the social production of knowledge (teaching and research) in universities.
Brief description: Justin Cruickshank is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Realism and Sociology (2002) and editor of Critical Realism: The Difference it Makes (2003).
Review Quotes:
"A comprehensive account of how neoliberalism turned what should be a transformative and critical experience into a financialised and commodified process. This is a useful collection of essays that helps us to understand the audit culture, surveillance technologies and instrumental logic of a marketised higher education system." --Des Freedman, co-editor, The Assault on Universities, Goldsmiths, University of London
"This book is timely, and its assessment of the trajectory of consequences stemming from the changes taking place in higher education is, indeed, spot on" --Frank Scalambrino, Duquesne University