Dirty knowledge : academic freedom in the age of neoliberalism / Julia Schleck.
"Dirty Knowledge explores the failure of traditional conceptions of academic freedom in the age of neoliberalism. While examining and rejecting the increasing tendency to view academic freedom as a form of free speech, Julia Schleck highlights the problem of basing academic freedom on employmen...
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| Other title: | Academic freedom in the age of neoliberalism. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Provocations (Lincoln, Neb.)
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| Summary: | "Dirty Knowledge explores the failure of traditional conceptions of academic freedom in the age of neoliberalism. While examining and rejecting the increasing tendency to view academic freedom as a form of free speech, Julia Schleck highlights the problem of basing academic freedom on employment protections like tenure at a time when such protections are being actively eliminated through neoliberalism's preference for gig labor. The argument traditionally made for such protections is that they help produce knowledge "for the public good" through the protected isolation of the Ivory Tower, where "pure" knowledge is sought and disseminated. In contrast, Dirty Knowledge insists that academic knowledge production is and has always been "dirty," deeply involved in the debates of its time and increasingly permeated by outside interests whose financial and material support provides some research programs with significant advantages over others. Schleck argues for a new vision of the university's role in society as one of the most important forums for contending views of what exactly constitutes a societal "good," warning that the intellectual monoculture encouraged by neoliberalism poses a serious danger to our collective futures and insisting on deliberate, material support for faculty research and teaching that runs counter to neoliberal values."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 130 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781496229311 1496229312 9781496229304 1496229304 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed December 16, 2022) |