#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Over on the podcast channel, there’s a new podcast. It features some lovely music, which is licensed under Creative Commons as attribution, share alike, non-commercial. The tracks are as follows. The podcast opens with: Tha Silent Partner, Roses (Intro), from the…
Back in June I spoke at the BERA social theory and education SIG symposium about authoritarian neoliberalism and the alienation of academic labour. My focus was on authoritarian neoliberalism as a heuristic for analysing the idea of the University, and…
A few people have contacted me about the cost of my book with Palgrave, the alienated academic. I raised this with the publishers who replied: I would advise that your colleagues check if they have access to the book via…
Over at WonkHE I have an opinion piece related to my book on the alienated academic, called Working in HE – an alienating labour of love? This is a companion piece to something I wrote last year for WonkHE on…
Elsewhere, I write: it is meaningless for me to separate out my work inside and outside the University from the work I continue to undertake on myself. It is meaningless for me to separate out my labour as something unique…
I have a new monograph out with Palgrave Macmillan, entitled The Alienated Academic: The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University The book’s abstract is as follows: Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are…
On Sunday I had the deep privilege of attending the funeral of Joyce Canaan. This was a service of celebration led by Joyce’s family who were held in the embrace of her friends as they carried her body to rest…
I’m presenting tomorrow at the SCUTREA 2018 conference on Lifelong Learning and the Pedagogy of Hope at the University of Sheffield. I am presenting on the development of governance and pedagogic practices of Leicester Vaughan College, which is a Community…
I spoke at the BERA social theory and education SIG symposium yesterday. My slides and initial thoughts are here. These are the thoughts I had when statements and people stopped or challenged me during the day. ONE. Analyses of neoliberalism…
I will be developing some of my thinking about HE at a British Educational Research Association symposium, Debating theories of neoliberalism: New perspectives and framings in education research tomorrow. My abstract and references are here. The flyer can be downloaded…