Capital in Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9783031384400 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Krystian Szadkowski

Opis

This book offers a systematic, sectoral, and in-depth Marxist perspective on the critique of political economy of higher education. It proposes an original method of analysis of higher education as a field of capitalist production, grounded at the intersection of mainstream higher education research and contemporary debates in Marxist theories. At the same time, it imbues a political perspective based on the embedding of higher education within the wider social network of antagonistic relations that traverse the capitalist economy at large.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction 

Chapter 2. On Method: A Critique of the Political Economy of Higher Education 

Chapter 3. Capital not Market: the Limitations of the Liberal Political Economy of Higher Education

Chapter 4. Is There a Classical Marxian Circuit of the Industrial Capital in Higher Education?

Chapter 5. Status and Prestige: The Political Economy of the Academic Field

Chapter 6. Measure: Capitalist Takeover of Value Signaling in Higher Education 

Chapter 7. Knowledge: Capitalist Contradiction of Open Access 

Chapter 8. Mechanisms of Subsumption of Academic Labour Under Capital 

Chapter 9. Productive and Unproductive Academic Labour 

Chapter 10. Conclusion: Beyond Capital 

O autorze

Krystian Szadkowski is Assistant Professor in the Scholarly Communication Research Group at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. 

Blurb

This book offers a systematic, sectoral, and in-depth Marxist perspective of critical political economy in higher education. It offers an original method of analysis of higher education as a field of capitalist production, grounded at the intersection of mainstream higher education research and contemporary debates in Marxist theories. At the same time, it imbues a political perspective based on the embedding of higher education within the wider social network of antagonistic relations that traverse the capitalist economy at large.

Krystian Szadkowski is Assistant Professor in the Scholarly Communication Research Group at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.