Academia in Crisis : Dystopic Optimism and Postalgic Realism in University Life

Ida Sabelis

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9789004402034
• Topic: Sozialwissenschaften
• Subtopic: Soziologie

Academia is standing at a junction in time. Behind lies the community of the curious, ahead the mass and the market. This book joins in a growing stream of works that explore the vicissitudes of present-day European universities in what Bauman coined as liquid times. Here, a number of concerned (engaged) European scholars attempt to defend and brush up academic core values and practices, starting from their own life worlds and positions in higher education. They share the view that there is no point in turning back, nor in mechanically marching straight on. Above all, they uphold that there is no alternative to treasuring academia as a space for thinking together. Hopefully the fruit of this sine qua non invites to think with, and envision academic activism.

Table of contents

• Academia in Crisis: The Rise and Risk of Neoliberal Education in Europe
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Introductory Thoughts
• 1 Toward an Educational Dystopia? Liquid Evil, TINA, and Post-academic University
• 2 Academic Homecoming. Stories from the Field
• 3 Universities as Laboratories. Internationalisation and the Liquidity of National Learning
• 4 Liberal Arts to the Rescue of the Bachelor's Degree in Europe
• 5 Academia in the Fast Lane vs. Organisational Ethnography and the Logic of Slow Food
• 6 Timescapes in Academic Life. Cubicles of Time Control
• 7 A Nomad of Academia. A Thematic Autobiography of Privilege
• 8 The Truth is Out There: 'Educated fo' Bollocks. Uni's Just Institutional Daylight Robbery'. Universities in Crisis? What's New?
• Epilogue
• Index