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Neoliberalism: An Alien Interloper in Higher Education

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The Toxic University

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The chapter commences by explaining what is meant by neoliberalism, where it comes from, how it has been allowed to infiltrate universities, and whether on close analysis, it is as robust and viable in addressing our vulnerability, as its proponents would have us believe. What is revealed is that universities have got caught up in a form of ‘enchantment’ for some, and ‘entrapment’ for others, leading to a corruption and proletarianization of academic work.

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Smyth, J. (2017). Neoliberalism: An Alien Interloper in Higher Education. In: The Toxic University. Palgrave Critical University Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54968-6_2

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