Whistling Past the Graveyard of Our Own Demise
How Neoliberalism, Corruption, Status Hierarchies, and The Imperium Threaten Higher Education
Duncan Waite
Texas State University
Introduction
We professors are, in Bourdieu’s (1991a, 655) terms, the dominated dominants. We are caught in webs of power relations, dynamics and changes. These changes threaten our cherished autonomy and our academic freedom, as they sweep over us and the world at large.
In this chapter, I shall discuss the social, political, economic, and cultural changes affecting the academy, at least as it has historically been constituted. Universities and other institutions of higher education, especially in the United States and in other “developed countries,” are or ...
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