‘Essays in refusal’: Decolonial feminist strategies that subvert and refuse the politics of the neoliberal university
By Francesca Hearing
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@modernlanguage.bsky.social CFP: session sponsored by Association of Departments of English on academic novels and administration call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/... #MLA2027 #CFP #AcademicNovel #CampusNovel #Administration #DepartmentChair #Leadership #CriticalUniversityStudies

If you have the funding/ library licence, find the publisher's version here doi.org/10.4337/9781...

Part of 'Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets: Elgar Handbooks in Education' by Glenda Strachan
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“What else can be done? Shut down the Centre!”: The shifting of transformative responsibility within discourses of Women’s Studies Centres in Indian Universities

If you are interested in the institutionalisation, growth & current deterioration of structural support for ‘Women’s Studies’ (WS) in Indian public #HigherEd

... an OA version of this chapter is available on pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publicati...

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'Budgets are moral documents that reflect the politics and cultural values of institutions of higher education.'

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Grateful 4 warm reception by @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
colleagues & students of our new book 'Emancipatory Imaginations: Advancing #CriticalUniversityStudies' at small gathering today.

👏 @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social 4 introducing book by reminding abt contind violences within & by western unis

Academic Irregularities

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But this
Academic Irregularities
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Perfectly descrbes ac. experience
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Expose&Crit managerialism: plain nonsense, narcissistic, evidence-denying & destructive neo-lib capitalism
The book I wish I'd written

A recording of the seminar is now available. We talked about academic freedom, of what does it feel like to being made redundant, accountability, financial engineering and other pressuring issues at universities.

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'Counter-narrtives of Authority in Transition: Marginality in the Indian Academy'

Artworks by Sudatta Chowdury, Brent Meistre, Archee Roy and Mark Wilby. Stories and zines by Ritarekha Dutta, Anwesha Rini, Archi Mukherjee, Niv, and Vanshika Gupta.

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'Silencing Mechanisms in Academia' - An important new paper by @cihat.bsky.social and @ozbilgin.bsky.social, who explore the purge of Critical Social Sciences (CSS) via deinstitutionalisation, disciplinary closure, and populists and libertarian attacks. 👇

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'It is a university's job to serve its society, not to agree with it. Where there are uncomfortable findings, it is the university's job to declare them. ... A good university, inevitably, is a bearer of oppositional ideas, an obstacle to privilege.' (Raewyn Connell)

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The Managerial University: A Failed Experiment? Recent decades have seen a protracted attack and painstaking demolition of the traditional or ‘old’ university and an associated purging of academics. The rise of managers and ‘managerial’ doctrines w...

“Loyalty has become the unspoken condition of managerial favour and professional success. ... Academics perceived to be disloyal are ignored, sidelined and eventually encouraged to leave or forced out altogether.” (David West)

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‘Is it inevitable that the university will be reduced to the function of providing, with increasingly authoritarian efficiency, pre-packed intellectual commodities which meet the requirements of management?' (Warwick University Ltd., 1970)

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The Rise and Fall of the Neo‐liberal University The rise of neo-liberal universities over the last 15–20 years has been characterised as an inevitable effect both of globalisation and the associated dominance of capital. In this article we will an...

'Neo-liberalism ... works ... by convincing workers that there is no choice at a systemic level. Instead, their power lies in their individual choices to become appropriate and successful within that inevitable system.'

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'academics chase the illusive sense of a secure self through ‘careering’; a frantic and frenetic individualistic strategy designed to moderate the pressures of excessive managerial competitive demands' (Clarke/Knights, 2015)

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