TY  - BOOK
ED  - Jenkins, Nico
ED  - van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J.
ED  - Groves, Adam Staley
AB  - We live in an era where the university system is undergoing great changes owing to developments in financing policies and research priorities, as well as changes in the society in which this system is embedded. This change toward a more market-oriented university, which also has immediate effects in academic peripheries such as the Balkans, the Middle East, or South-East Asia, is of great influence for the pedagogical practice of “less profitable” academic areas such as the Humanities: philosophy, languages, sociology, anthropology, history. Because of the absence of a historically grounded establishment of the Humanities, academic peripheries, usually accompanied by a weak civil society infrastructure, seem to offer the most fertile ground for rethinking the Humanities, their pedagogical practice, and their politics, as well as the greatest threats, such as the ongoing capitalization of research, and profitability as the norm of educational achievement. The sprawling presence of for-profit universities and in academic peripheries such as Albania and Kosovo is indicative of this problematic, as are consistent underfunding of universities and the relentless budget cuts in American and English, and to a lesser extent European, universities. Motivations for this ongoing attack on the university are often driven by a political system or a politics with an aggressive stance to critical thought.
DO  - 10.21983/P3.0050.1.00
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004528
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 945782736
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25567
KW  - pedagogy
KW  - humanities
KW  - philosophy
KW  - catastrophe
KW  - university
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25567/1/1004528.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25567/1/1004528.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25567/1/1004528.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25567/1/1004528.pdf
LA  - Albanian
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34102
PB  - punctum books
PP  - Brooklyn, NY
PY  - 2013
SN  - 9780615898711
TI  - Pedagogies of Disasternull
ER  - 
