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Closing Keynote

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This session explains how the neoliberal agenda has relevance to conferences, affecting their accessibility, what might be permitted for debate to maintain corporate identity, and there being a competitive rather than co-operative edge. My work comes with a health warning and suggests three reasons why academic conferences might be considered a (neoliberal) commodity.

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Nicolson, D.J. (2017). Closing Keynote. In: Academic Conferences as Neoliberal Commodities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49190-5_5

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