by The Analogue University From Auditing, Controlling, to Desiring Data The term “neo-liberal university” has become shorthand for a range of contemporary pressures in university life (Burrows...
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Intervention – “Control, Resistance, and the ‘Data University’: Towards a Third Wave Critique”
Video abstract – John Lauermann and Mark Davidson talk about 'Negotiating Particularity in Neoliberalism Studies: Tracing Development Strategies Across Neoliberal Urban Governance Projects'
In the third and final video abstract from Antipode 45(5) - the first and second are here and here - Clark University's John Lauermann and Mark Davidson tell us about their paper 'Negotiating...
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Video abstract – Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola talks about 'Neoliberalizing Border Management in Finland and Schengen'
"...contemporary performances of border enforcement and security cannot be understood as distinct from the process of neoliberalization." So argues University of Oulu geographer Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola...
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Symposium on PyGyRG's 'Communifesto for Fuller Geographies' – Authors' reply to critical responses
A couple of months ago we continued our symposium series* by posting the Participatory Geographies Research Group's 'Communifesto for Fuller Geographies: Towards Mutual Security' together with a set...
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Symposium on the Participatory Geographies Research Group’s ‘Communifesto for Fuller Geographies: Towards Mutual Security’
We're delighted to be continuing our symposium series with this collection of responses to the Participatory Geographies Research Group’s ‘Communifesto for Fuller Geographies: Towards Mutual...
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Video abstract – Matt Himley talks about 'Regularizing Extraction in Andean Peru: Mining and Social Mobilization in an Age of Corporate Social Responsibility'
Mining and miners have been in the news a lot recently, with the injustices at Lonmin's Marikana mine taking centre stage (see here and here). For resource geographers we think there are connections...
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Thoughts on transition: Public education, social justice, and geography
by Rachel Brahinsky, UC Berkeley This was originally presented at the commencement ceremony for the Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley in May 2012. Many thanks to Rachel for...
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Life and time(s) in the neoliberal university: Tell me about it (seriously, do)
by Christian Anderson, City University of New York Last semester I spent one night a week sleeping on the floor in a small, windowless student office at my university. I had an adjunct teaching load...
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Intervention – Where’s our agency? The role of grading in the neoliberalization of public universities
by Culum Canally, Wilfrid Laurier University Over the last several years I have been involved in numerous discussions and academic panels that lament the reduction in public funding and simultaneous...
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