Dark Academia, 9780745341064
Paperback
Neoliberal universities: Metrics, madness, and a desperate fight for survival.

Dark Academia

how universities die

$52.86

  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    19 May 2021

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Summary

The Ivory Tower Inferno: Unmasking the Dark Side of Academia

‘Fleming’s books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry’ - Guardian

There is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured by its staff and students. While academia was once thought of as the best job in the world - one that fosters autonomy, craft, intrinsic job satisfaction and vocational zeal - you would be hard-pr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780745341064
ISBN-10:0745341063
Author:Peter Fleming
Publisher:Pluto Press
Imprint:Pluto Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:19 May 2021
Weight:202g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘Fleming’s books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry’ - the Guardian

‘Fleming’s books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry’

– Guardian

‘Our foremost critic of management ideology, Peter Fleming, turns his talents to the corporate university and what he rightly calls its authoritarian turn, and he does so with devastating results’

– Stefano Harney, Honorary Professor, Institute of Gender, Sexuality, Race and Social Justice, University of British Columbia

‘A brilliant exposé of the scourge of neoliberalism and its dark transformation of higher education into an adjunct of sordid market forces. This is a book that should be read by anyone concerned with not only higher education but the fate of critically engaged agents, collective resistance and democracy itself’

– Henry Giroux, McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest & The Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy

‘An excellent and important book’

– ‘Journal of Education, Innovation, and Communication’

About The Author

Peter Fleming

Peter Fleming is Professor of Organisation Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of The Mythology of Work (Pluto, 2015) and The Death of Homo Economicus (Pluto, 2017).

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