Through a Glass Darkly : The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Retreat from the Critical -- Part I: Theorising the Modern University -- 1. Disinterested Scholars or Interested Parties? The Public's Investment in Self-interested Universities -- 2. Critical Theory and the New University: Reflections on Time and Technology -- 3. Gendered Hierarchies of Knowledge and the Prestige Factor: How Philosophy Survives Market Rationality -- Part II: Markets, Managers and Mandarins -- 4. What's to be Explained? And is it so Bad? -- 5. Higher Education 'Markets' and University Governance -- 6. Transforming the Public University: Market Citizenship and Higher Education Regulatory Projects -- 7. The State of the Universities -- Part III: Education for the 'Real World' -- 8. The Modern University and its Transaction with Students -- 9. Markets, Discipline, Students: Governing Student Conduct and Performance in the University -- 10. 'Selling the dream': Law School Branding and the Illusion of Choice -- Part IV: Conditions of Knowledge Production -- 11. Disciplining Academic Women: Gender Restructuring and the Labour of Research in Entrepreneurial Universities -- 12. Functional Dystopia: Diversity, Contestability and New Media in the Academy -- Part V: Telling It How It Is -- 13. A Design for Learning? A Case Study of the Hidden Costs of Curriculum and Organisational Change -- 14. 'Smoking Guns': Reflections on Truth and Politics in the University -- Part VI: University Futures? -- 15. Seeking the Necessary 'Resources of Hope' in the Neoliberal University -- Bibliography.

This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities.

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