Learning Under Neoliberalism (eBook)

Susan B. Hyatt is Associate Professor of Anthropology at IUPUI and founder of that department's MA program in Applied Anthropology. From 1996-2004 she served on the faculty of Temple University.  She is the author of several articles on urban policy and grassroots activism in the US and the UK.

Boone W. Shear is a Lecturer in the Anthropology Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is on the editorial board of the journal Rethinking Marxism, a member of the Community Economies Collective, and the author of several articles that lie at the intersection of academic engagement, economic subjectivity, and development.

Susan Wright is Professor of Educational Anthropology at Aarhus University, and founder of the research program EPOKE (Education, Policy and Organisation in the Knowledge Economy). She is co-editor of Policy Worlds (Berghahn, 2011), author of numerous articles on higher education, and co-editor of the journal LATISS (Berghahn).

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Higher Education, Engaged Anthropology, and Hegemonic Struggle
Boone W. Shear and Susan Brin Hyatt

Chapter 1. The reform of New Zealand's university system: 'after neoliberalism'
Cris Shore

Chapter 2. Universities and neoliberal models of urban development: using ethnographic fieldwork to understand the ‘Death and Rebirth of North Central Philadelphia’
Susan Brin Hyatt

Chapter 3. To market, to market to buy a … middle class life? Insecurity, anxiety, and neoliberal education in Michigan
Vincent Lyon-Callo

Chapter 4. Reading Neoliberalism at the University
Boone W. Shear and Angelina I. Zontine

Chapter 5. So many strategies, so little time … making universities modern
John Clarke

Chapter 6. Constructing Fear in Academia: Neoliberal Practices at a Public College
Dana-Ain Davis

Chapter 7. Autonomy and control: Danish university reform in the context of modern governance
Susan Wright and Jakob Williams Ørberg

Afterword
Davydd Greenwood

Notes on Contributors
Index