The Knowledge Business : The Commodification of Urban and Housing Research
by
Rob Imrie
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0754676900
ISBN-13
9780754676904
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 20th, 2010
Print length
298 Pages
Weight
453 grams
Product Classification:
Social issues & processesHigher & further education, tertiary education
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Offers a critique of the knowledge business, and describes and evaluates its different manifestations in, and impacts on, the university sector. This book focuses on the social sciences and, in particular, housing and urban studies.
This book provides a critique of the knowledge business, and describes and evaluates its different manifestations in, and impacts on, the university sector. Its focus is the social sciences and, in particular, housing and urban studies. Drawing on a wide range of experiences, both in the UK and elsewhere, it illustrates the changing management of the academy, and the development, by university managers, of instruments or techniques of control to ensure that academics are disciplined in ways that are commensurate with achieving commercial goals. The individual chapters highlight the different ways in which the academy is being put to work for commercial gain, and they evaluate how far the public service ethos of the universities is coming apart in a context in which what is to be serviced is increasingly a private clientele defined by their ''ability to pay''. The Knowledge Business examines the contradictions and tensions associated with these processes, highlighting the implications for the academic labour process, and the future of the academy.
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