Power in the Academy: 7 - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1858564476 ISBN 13: 9781858564470

Casa editrice: Trentham Books Ltd, 2009

Riassunto

Terry Eagleton leads this exploration of how power operates in the academy with the argument that power is itself no bad thing, and Slavoj Žižek maintains that the people always have power and should be roused to use it.

From his American perspective, Cameron McCarthy follows with a hard and disconcerting look at power and culture in the academy. Chris Langley points to the corrosive effect on UK universities of military contracts, and Sechaba Mahlomaholo extends this analysis to the South African scene, showing that it is not only money that corrodes the contemporary academy: personal forces are also at work. Sarah Ahmed draws this discussion together in her analysis of the cultural politics of power in the strange world of personal relationships. Contributors from the US, the Caribbean, China and the UK discuss the impact of power on research. These four chapters show power—both overt and covert, internal and external to the universities—at work to determine what research may be done, what methodology used and what constraints and protocols observed.

The analysis is forbidding. But this book is not about submission. The message, culminating in Pat Sikes’ celebratory account of auto/biography as a valid research method, remains positive throughout. It may seem that power in the academy is vested in agencies whose programs have little to do with the free advancement of learning, yet the book shows clearly how good educational and good research practice can thrive and maintain the best traditions of the academy, come what may.

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Recensione

...a worthy book on an extremely important topic and most of the chapters taught me something significant and/or challenged my thinking on how power operates, and should operate, in the academy. --Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning

L'autore

The chapters include: Loving Power Terry Eagleton (UK); In 1968, Structures Walked the Streets - will they do it again? Slavojiek (Slovenia) Culture, Power and the Academy Cameron McCarthy (USA); Commercialised Universities: the influence of the Military Chris Langley (UK) Academic; Envy in a Post Apartheid Higher Education Institution Sechaba Mahlomaholo (S Africa); Affect Aliens: Happiness as a Cultural Politics Sara Ahmed (UK); Enabling research: whose voice gets heard? Ann Phoenix (UK); Degrees of Freedom: The Internet, the Academy and Digital Rights Michael Peters (USA); Resisting the Unethical in Formalised Ethics: Perspectives and Experiences Ansgar Allen (UK), Karin Anderson (USA), Laurette Bristol (Trinidad and Tobago), Yvonne Downs (UK), Daniel O'Neill (UK), Nicky Watts (UK) and Qi Wu (China); and, the Study of Teachers' Lives and Careers: An auto/biographical life history of the genre Pat Sikes (UK).

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Trentham Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1858564476
• ISBN 13: 9781858564470
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 194
• Redattore: Satterthwaite Jerome, Piper Heather, Sikes Pat
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile