My background to dissolution
I always try to do some due diligence in relation to the things that I write and the books that I publish. My latest book, The Dissolution of the Universities, emerged from reading over a number of years about the…
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Weaving other worlds with, against and beyond Marx
Back in December 2021 I began working with Inny Accioly (Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Krystian Szadkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland), on a Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education. We hope that the Handbook…
Praktyka Teoretyczna: Has the University become surplus to requirements?
With Krystian Szadkowski from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, I am working on an article for a Special Issue of Praktyka Teoretyczna on Latency of the crisis: globalization, subjectivity, and resistance. Our proposed article is entitled: Has the University become…
Paperback version of Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education
I’m really pleased that a paperback version of Joss Winn and my 2017 edited collection, Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education is now available. This makes this important work on re-imagining HE much more accessible. For more details…
neoliberalism, the capital-relation and education
I spoke at the BERA social theory and education SIG symposium yesterday. My slides and initial thoughts are here. These are the thoughts I had when statements and people stopped or challenged me during the day. ONE. Analyses of neoliberalism…
authoritarian neoliberalism and the alienation of academic labour
I will be developing some of my thinking about HE at a British Educational Research Association symposium, Debating theories of neoliberalism: New perspectives and framings in education research tomorrow. My abstract and references are here. The flyer can be downloaded…
on the HE and Research Bill as a terrain of alienation
ONE. Universities as tools of economic progress and social mobility. The HE Bill reaching the Lords has catalysed a fresh discussion around ideas, first, of the University itself, and second, of academic freedom. These are the perceived form/purpose and content…
performance information and data-driven academic anxiety
I’ve just submitted a chapter for a book project being managed out of the University Estácio de Sá in Rio de Janeiro. The editors have four previous volumes entitled Education and Technology: Partnerships (although the original idea is a little lost in…
Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education
Working with 20 co-authors, Joss Winn and I have just submitted the manuscript for Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education. The edited collection forms part of Bloomsbury Academic’s series on Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education. Assuming that…
notes on leaving: vulnerability; directional demands; possibility
On vulnerability The HE systems of developing countries become more vulnerable to dominance from abroad, while the hybrid nature of the HE systems in most developed countries means that the protection offered by the GATS exemption of ‘services supplied in…