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Neoliberalism and Academic Repression: The Fall of Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump, co-edited by Erik Juergensmeyer, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Mark Seis, provides a theoretical examination of the current higher education system and explains how academia is being shaped into a corporate-factory-industrial-complex. This complex is transforming the relationships within and beyond the institution, transforming the mission of higher education from being the foundation of democracy to manager of professionalism. The outstanding contributors offer strategies of social change, policy suggestions, and important critiques of neoliberal practices. This timely collection challenges the neoliberal emphasis on valuation based on job readiness and outcome achievement—promoting equity, justice, and inclusivity in the process.
Contributors include: Camila Bassi, Brad Benz, A. Peter Castro, Taine Duncan, Sarah Giragosian, Erik Juergensmeyer, Caroline K. Kaltefleiter, Peter N. Kirstein, Emil Marmol, Anthony J. Nocella II, Ben Ristow, JL Schatz, Mark Seis, Jeff Shantz, Kim Socha, Richard J. White.
Contents
About Neoliberalism and Academic Repression ix
Foreword: The Erosion of Academic Freedom xii
A. Peter Castro
Preface xv
Richard J. White
Acknowledgements xviii
Notes on Contributors xix
Introduction: The Academic Industrial Complex: The Dangers of Corporate Education and Factory Schooling
Erik Juergensmeyer, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Mark Seis
Part 1: Theoretical Approaches to Neoliberal Education
1 Marx, Neoliberalism, and Academic Freedom: Toward a Dialectic of Resistance and Liberation
Peter Kirstein
2 On the Death Throes of Education: Erich Fromm's Marxism and a Rallying Cry for a Healthy University
Camila Bassi
3 Pondering the Neoliberal Public University with the Ghost of Foucault
Mark Seis
4 Neoliberalism, Discursive Formations, and the Educational Intelligence Complex
Erik Juergensmeyer and Brad Benz
Part 2: Corporate Factory Schooling
5 Academic Repression of Latina/os in the United States Educational System: A LatCrit Perspective
Emil Marmol
6 Mobilizing Resistance against the Shadow Economies of Global Private Tutoring
Ben Ristow
7 Fun Home, Self-censorship, and Emancipation beyond Trigger Warnings
Taine Duncan
8 Debating against the Grain: Occupying Policy Debate in the Face of Repression
JL Schatz
9 Cops on Campus: Nightstickology, Postsecondary Spaces, and the Development of Repressive Forces
Jeff Shantz
10 Learning to Labor: (Anarcha) Feminism, the Myth of Meritocracy, Incivility and Resistance for Women in the Neoliberal Academy
Caroline K. Kaltefleiter
11 The Democratic Potential of Ecopedagogy in a Neoliberal Age
Sarah Giragosian
Afterword
Kim Socha
Index
