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Strange Bedfellows: Austerity and Social Justice at the Neoliberal University

This article examines some aspects of the operation of universities under neoliberalism in Canada and the USA. It begins with a short overview of neoliberalism’s impact on higher education, subsequently turning to a discussion of some of the defining characteristics of the twenty-first century neoli...

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Autor principal: Muzzatti, Stephen L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9199455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35729976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10612-022-09646-9
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spelling pubmed-91994552022-06-17 Strange Bedfellows: Austerity and Social Justice at the Neoliberal University Muzzatti, Stephen L. Crit Criminol Article This article examines some aspects of the operation of universities under neoliberalism in Canada and the USA. It begins with a short overview of neoliberalism’s impact on higher education, subsequently turning to a discussion of some of the defining characteristics of the twenty-first century neoliberal university. Particular attention is paid to an ethos of corporate managerialism amongst university administrators and how that is manifested in the intersecting strategies of privatisation, monetisation, resource reallocation and the subtle regulation of faculty. Following an exploration of some claims-making about the instrumentalism of higher education, the article highlights the shifting narratives that emanate from universities’ communications and strategic planning offices. Paying particular attention to contemporary universities’ peculiar brand of progressive neoliberalism, the article concludes with an analysis of the appropriation of social justice in service of undergraduate recruitment. Springer Netherlands 2022-06-15 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9199455/ /pubmed/35729976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10612-022-09646-9 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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