Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education

by Marc Spooner (Editor), James McNinch (Editor)

Overview

An edited collection that traces new avenues for building liberatory structures of knowledge inside academia

Current global trends suggest a time of exciting possibility for scholars as critical, community-engaged, and participatory epistemologies come to the fore.

Yet, just as possibilities invite academics to broaden and deepen scholarship in ways unimagined a decade before, a parallel shift towards a neoliberal and accountability-focused culture – both in the academy and in society – imperils every new opportunity.

In Dissident Knowledge, Noam Chomsky, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Yvonna S. Lincoln, and others delve into the effects of colonialism, neoliberalism, and audit culture on higher education. They present promising avenues of resistance and show how to shape, reinvent, and construct life for faculty in institutions that serve as both a safe harbour and enforcer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780889775367
Publisher:	University of Regina Press
Publication date:	05/12/2018
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marc Spooner is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. He specializes in qualitative and participatory action research at the intersections of theory and action-on-the-ground. His interests include: homelessness & poverty; audit culture & the effects of neoliberalization & corporatization on higher education; social justice, activism, & participatory democracy. He has published in many venues including peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, government reports, and a wide variety of popularizations.  Together with colleagues at the U of R, he also co-hosts a popular education series that takes place in pubs—not on campus—entitled Talkin’ about School and Society. 

James McNinch is professor emeritus and former dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina.  His research and publications have focused on teaching and learning in higher education,  gender and sexual diversity, racism and white privilege, and the social construction of masculinity. 

Table of Contents

Foreword: The Trump Card: Racialized Speech in the Era of Desperate White Supremacy Zeus Leonardo xi

Preface Marc Spooner James McNinch xxi

Introduction Marc Spooner James McNinch xxiii

Part I Historical Perspectives and Overview

Chapter 1 A Dangerous Accountability: Neoliberalism's Veer toward Accountancy in Higher Education Yvonna S. Lincoln 3

Chapter 2 The Art of the Impossible-Defining and Measuring Indigenous Research? Linda Tuhiwai Smith 21

Chapter 3 An Interview with Dr. Norman K. Denzin on the Politics of Evidence, Science, and Research 41

Chapter 4 An Interview with Dr. Noam Chomsky on Neoliberalism, Society, and Higher Education 55

Part II Activism, Science, and Global and Local Knowledge

Chapter 5 Accumulation and Its Dis'(sed) Contents: The Politics of Evidence in the Struggle for Public Education Michelle Fine 65

Chapter 6 Beyond Epistemicide: Knowledge Democracy and Higher Education Budd L. Hall 84

Chapter 7 Within and Beyond Neoliberalism: Doing Qualitative Research in the Afterward Patti Lather 102

Part III Theorizing the Colonial Academy and Indigenous Knowledge

Chapter 8 Reconciling Indigenous Knowledge in Education: Promises, Possibilities, and Imperatives Marie Battiste 123

Chapter 9 Biting the University That Feeds Us Eve Tuck 149

Chapter 10 Refusing the University Sandy Grande 168

Part IV From Counting Out, to Counting On, the Scholars

Chapter 11 Beyond Individualism: The Psychosocial Life of the Neoliberal University Rosalind Gill 193

Chapter 12 Fatal Distraction: Audit Culture and Accountability in the Corporate University Joel Westheimer 217

Chapter 13 Public Scholarship and Faculty Agency: Rethinking "Teaching, Scholarship, and Service" Christopher Meyers 235

Afterword: The Defenestration of Democracy Peter McLaren 253

Contributors 303

Index 309

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From the Publisher

"This book maps the path toward a university based on ethics and justice rather than corporate needs. It reaches anyone who wants to understand the social, political, and economic trends that define our times." - William Ayers, author of Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World