TY - BOOK ID - 33059831 TI - The Alienated Academic : The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University PY - 2018 SN - 3319943030 3319943049 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Education, Higher. KW - Communism and education. KW - Education and communism KW - Education KW - College students KW - Higher education KW - Postsecondary education KW - Universities and colleges KW - Social sciences-Philosophy. KW - Educational Policy and Politics. KW - Higher Education. KW - Social Theory. KW - Social Structure, Social Inequality. KW - Educational Philosophy. KW - Philosophy of Education. KW - Philosophy. KW - Educational policy. KW - Education and state. KW - Higher education. KW - Social sciences—Philosophy. KW - Social structure. KW - Social inequality. KW - Education—Philosophy. KW - Philosophy and social sciences. KW - Social sciences and philosophy KW - Social sciences KW - Egalitarianism KW - Inequality KW - Social equality KW - Social inequality KW - Political science KW - Sociology KW - Democracy KW - Liberty KW - Organization, Social KW - Social organization KW - Anthropology KW - Social institutions KW - Education policy KW - Educational policy KW - State and education KW - Social policy KW - Endowment of research KW - Government policy KW - Equality. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33059831 AB - Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are repurposed for value. Discourses of entrepreneurship, impact and excellence, realised through competition and the market, mean that academics and students are increasingly alienated from themselves and their work. This book applies Marx’s concept of alienation to the realities of academic life in the Global North, in order to explore how the idea of public education is subsumed under the law of value. In a landscape of increased commodification of higher education, the book explores the relationship between alienation and crisis, before analysing how academic knowledge, work, identity and life are themselves alienated. Finally, it argues that through indignant struggle, another world is possible, grounded in alternative forms of organising life and producing socially-useful knowledge, ultimately requiring the abolition of academic labour. This pioneering work will be of interest and value to all those working in the higher education sector, as well as those concerned with the rise of neoliberalism and marketization within universities. Richard Hall is Professor of Education and Technology at De Montfort University, UK, and a UK National Teaching Fellow. ER -