#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
With Jonathan Payne at DMU I’m leading a strand of DMU’s 2015 Policy Commission on young people and employment. We met for the first time today to outline the work that we might do together with eight undergraduate and postgraduate…
Michael Roberts has argued that the UK’s economy, and in particular the productive sectors of the economy, are struggling to recover from the global financial shock of 2008. Roberts argues that What the comparative data show is that real GDP…
ONE. On alienation, time and exchange In the Grundrisse, Marx argued that the possibility of human subjectivity, of an autonomy or agency for humans in their work and their leisure, was impossible inside the structuring social relations enforced by capitalism.…
ONE. Autonomy for whom? Autonomy from what? William I. Robinson has argued that: activists and scholars have tended to underestimate the systemic nature of the changes involved in globalisation, which is redefining all the fundamental reference points of human society…
ONE. The State will not save the public University The idea of neoliberalism as a globalising, disciplinary discourse is especially important in Stephen J. Ball’s work on Global Education Inc.. Ball argued that the State has a critical activist role…
I’ve just submitted this for the Higher Education Academy’s 2014 conference. It’s not contentious to me. But let’s see if it gets accepted… Short abstract: The University is broken. The game is up. It is conditioned by neoliberal politics through…
I wrote this whilst I listened to the tunes that defined 2013 for me. What did I learn this year? I lost faith in myself. I am trying to find it again. Starting with my being. It is my faith…
In a paper from 2011 entitled Questioning Technology in the Development of a Resilient Higher Education, Joss Winn and I looked at the interrelationships between peak oil, narratives of economic growth, and the idea of the university. We argued the…
Martin McQuillan has argued that the Coalition Government is placing borrowing at the heart of the UK’s higher education system. He notes that: Against all expectations George Osborne’s Autumn statement announced that the cap on student numbers in England would…
Marx was clear that given the nature of capitalist social relations, there can be no balanced growth or equilibrium reached inside production for the market. The history of crises, and of both State and transnational responses to those crises, crystallises…