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Universities in the Neoliberal Era

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The current collection opens with a prelude—an introductory chapter—that offers an overview of the book’s scope and organization. It begins with insights regarding neoliberal academia worldwide. Drawing on factual examples from diverse countries, including Canada, India, Turkey, and the United States, the first section depicts the issue or the urge that has brought us (contributors and readers) together. This section also introduces the book’s ethnographic, multidisciplinary nature. The second section outlines the distinctive contribution that we believe this book makes to the existing literature. With the third section, ‘the story unfolds itself’ by introducing the book’s tripartite structure and the individual chapters. It concludes with a call for alternative, non-doctrinaire, collective responses from below.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery.

Karl Marx

New York Daily Tribune,

16 September 1859

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    Hakan Ergül & Simten Coşar

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    Hakan Ergül

  2. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Simten Coşar

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Ergül, H., Coşar, S. (2017). Editorial Introduction. In: Ergül, H., Coşar, S. (eds) Universities in the Neoliberal Era. Palgrave Critical University Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55212-9_1

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