Presentation and Discussion: Neoliberalism and Academic Practice
Three anthropologists will give presentations and lead a discussion about changing conditions at the university apropos neoliberal globalization.
The neoliberal project to free capital of constraint and strengthen elite rule has been accompanied by increasing inequalities, a multiplicity of social dislocations and dramatic social and economic restructuring. In recent years, scholars have begun to pay close attention to the ways in which universities are caught up in and transformed by neoliberal policies and practices and encroaching authoritarianism. Over the past few decades, universities have strengthened private and corporate relationships and materially and discursively restructured to operate as for-profit corporations. Market-based logics and language have come to predominate decision-making and structure policy. These changing conditions impact research, pedagogy and curricula in confounding and troubling ways. The presentations and discussion intend to theorize changing conditions at the university, consider the limitations and possibilities for academic practice apropos neoliberalism and look for spaces and strategies for intervention.
Dana-Ain Davis. Associate Department Chair for Worker Education. Queens College, City University of New York.
Susan Brin Hyatt. Associate Professor of Anthropology. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Vin Lyon-Callo. Associate Professor of Anthropology. Western Michigan University.
Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology Graduate Caucus, the Department of Anthropology, the School of Education, the Graduate Employee Organization, the Center for Public Policy and Administration, the Graduate Student Senate, and the Graduate School.