#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Yesterday, Joss Winn and I presented the following paper at The Co-operative Education and Research Conference, 5-6 April 2017, Manchester. A link to download the paper is below the abstract. It is a version of our Introduction to the forthcoming book, Mass Intellectuality…
A piece in the Times Higher Education by Liz Morrish on why she chose to tackle the failings of the neoliberal academy from the outside is very powerful testimony. She argues that “Academia badly needs a manifesto for academic citizenship to counteract…
I have a full bursary PhD Scholarship at De Montfort University, starting in October 2017, with the title: A critical evaluation of the impact of neoliberal policy on the lived experience of school communities in UK primary education The second supervisor…
I have an agreement with Palgrave Macmillan for a monograph with the title The Alienated Academic: The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University. It builds on writing here, and has the following aims. The book applies Marx’s concept of alienation to the realities of…
It is also popularly believed to be possible to “gaslight” a perfectly healthy person into psychosis by interpreting [her] own behavior to [her] as symptomatic of serious mental illness. While “gaslighting” itself may be a mythical crime, there is no…
Jehu has it. Communists have to decide how they see the next few years unfolding: Are we simply against Trump or the system that made Trump possible as well. The Democrats, who control the movement at present, want to limit…
I have a chapter in an edited collection called Negotiating Neoliberalism: Developing Alternative Educational Visions. The Sense Publishers website contains previews of the first two chapters. My chapter is entitled: Against Academic Labour and the Dehumanisation of Educational Possibility. The…
ONE. Universities as tools of economic progress and social mobility. The HE Bill reaching the Lords has catalysed a fresh discussion around ideas, first, of the University itself, and second, of academic freedom. These are the perceived form/purpose and content…
With Joss Winn, I’m presenting at the Co-operative Education and Research Conference 2017. The abstract is presented below. Higher education in the UK is in crisis. The idea of the public university is under assault, and both the future of the…
I have been asked to speak at the Brookes Learning Teaching Conference 2017. I love this kind of invite, which enables a testing of ideas and a lot of listening to the practices, activities and hopes of others. My abstract is detailed below.…