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Unaccomplished Utopia

Neoliberal Asphyxiating on Higher Education in Europe

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Such ideological (and cultural) battle(s) have been the very DNA of what Sousa Santos (2008) calls globalizations. That is, an intricate multifarious social terrain in which nonmonolithic hegemonic and counter-hegemonic forces – or what Sousa Santos (2008) calls insurgent cosmopolitanisms – collide vividly before, among other issues, social and cognitive justice, equality, freedom, democracy, human rights, and common good.

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Paraskeva, J.M. (2015). Unaccomplished Utopia. In: Paraskeva, J.M., LaVallee, T. (eds) Transformative Researchers and Educators for Democracy. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-914-2_8

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