[ecrea] New book: Universities in the Neoliberal Era

New book:

UNIVERSITIES IN THE NEOLIBERAL ERA

/Academic cultures and critical perspectives/

Edited by Hakan Ergül and Simten Coşar

This book explores the question of how and to what extent the ongoing 
neoliberal transformation of higher education exerts influence on the 
university and academic everyday life in different societies. By 
listening to, observing, and comparing the critical voices of academics 
and students – the voices that matter – the book reviews first hand 
experiences from different societies and university cultures located 
within the European and semi-Mediterranean landscape, including the 
Czech Republic, Morocco, Turkey, and United Kingdom. 
By bringing 
together original fieldworks combining the structural analysis of the 
neoliberal shift with the academic individual’s repositioning, struggle 
and response,
the book documents a number of similarities and 
differences experienced in different academic cultures.

The chapters present a rich variety of subjects, including academic 
labor, academic identity and knowledge production, (un)employment, 
(in)equality, academic feminism, oppression and resistance from 
ethnographic, political and sociological perspectives.

For more details:

http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137552112#reviews

_Table of contents_

Chapter 1. Editorial Introduction (Hakan Ergül & Simten Coşar)

Chapter 2. Beyond the Third Mission: Towards an Actor-Based Account of 
Universities' Relationship with Society (Jana Bacevic)

Chapter 3. Searching for Authenticity and Success: Academic Identity and 
Production in Neoliberal Times (Özgür Budak)

Chapter 4. Turkish Academics' Encounters with the Index in Social 
Sciences (Eda Çetinkaya)

Chapter 5. Variegated Neoliberalization in Higher Education: Ambivalent 
Responses to Competitive Funding in the Czech Republic (Josef Kavka)

Chapter 6. Creating Jobs for the Social Good: Moving Beyond the 
Neoliberal Model of Education for Employment (Shana Cohen)

Chapter 7. Transformation, Reformation or Decline? The University in 
Contemporary Morocco and Turkey (Hakan Ergül, Simten Coşar & Fadma Ait-Mous)

Chapter 8. The Historico-Political Parameters of Academic Feminism in 
Turkey: Breaks and Continuities (Inci Özkan Kerestecioglu & Aylin Özman)

Chapter 9. 'Homo Academicus' in University Inc.: The 'Ersatz' Yuppie 
Academic (Hasan Ünal Nalbantoğlu)



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