- Paperback: 194 pages
- Publisher: Trentham Books (April 1 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1858564476
- ISBN-13: 978-1858564470
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- See Complete Table of Contents
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...a worthy book on an extremely important topic and most of the chapters taught me something significant and/or challenged my thinking on how power operates, and should operate, in the academy. - Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning
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Terry Eagleton leads this exploration of how power operates in the academy with the argument that power is itself no bad thing, and Slavoj Žižek maintains that the people always have power and should be roused to use it.
From his American perspective, Cameron McCarthy follows with a hard and disconcerting look at power and culture in the academy. Chris Langley points to the corrosive effect on UK universities of military contracts, and Sechaba Mahlomaholo extends this analysis to the South African scene, showing that it is not only money that corrodes the contemporary academy: personal forces are also at work. Sarah Ahmed draws this discussion together in her analysis of the cultural politics of power in the strange world of personal relationships. Contributors from the US, the Caribbean, China and the UK discuss the impact of power on research. These four chapters show powerâboth overt and covert, internal and external to the universitiesâat work to determine what research may be done, what methodology used and what constraints and protocols observed.
The analysis is forbidding. But this book is not about submission. The message, culminating in Pat Sikesâ celebratory account of auto/biography as a valid research method, remains positive throughout. It may seem that power in the academy is vested in agencies whose programs have little to do with the free advancement of learning, yet the book shows clearly how good educational and good research practice can thrive and maintain the best traditions of the academy, come what may.
From his American perspective, Cameron McCarthy follows with a hard and disconcerting look at power and culture in the academy. Chris Langley points to the corrosive effect on UK universities of military contracts, and Sechaba Mahlomaholo extends this analysis to the South African scene, showing that it is not only money that corrodes the contemporary academy: personal forces are also at work. Sarah Ahmed draws this discussion together in her analysis of the cultural politics of power in the strange world of personal relationships. Contributors from the US, the Caribbean, China and the UK discuss the impact of power on research. These four chapters show powerâboth overt and covert, internal and external to the universitiesâat work to determine what research may be done, what methodology used and what constraints and protocols observed.
The analysis is forbidding. But this book is not about submission. The message, culminating in Pat Sikesâ celebratory account of auto/biography as a valid research method, remains positive throughout. It may seem that power in the academy is vested in agencies whose programs have little to do with the free advancement of learning, yet the book shows clearly how good educational and good research practice can thrive and maintain the best traditions of the academy, come what may.
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