The Humanities Reloaded: Addressing Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781032418285 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 250 str.

Tomaselli, Keyan G.

Opis

This volume examines the crisis of humanities narratives in the context of neoliberal capitalism and of the emergence and consolidation of the metrics-driven, corporate, managerial university. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.

Spis treści

1. Humanities Reloaded. An Overview of this Volume  2. Crisis? Which Crisis? The Humanities Reloaded  3. Humanities, Citations and Currency: Hierarchies of Value and Enabled Recolonisation  4. Kind of Blue: Can Communication Research Matter?  5. “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me”: Rethinking the Humanities (in Times of) Crisis  6. Crossing Worlds: South–North Collaborations as Creative Encounters with Arts, Humanities and Sciences  7. Jessica Ramirez Goes to the Johannesburg Solstice Critical Theory Workshop at the Institute of Critical Reasoning  8. Transformation of Cultural Studies into Transdisciplinarity  9. Alter-egos: Cultural and Media Studies  10. Charles Taylor and the Pre-History of British Cultural Studies  11. Why do Cultural Discourse Studies? Towards a Culturally Conscious and Critical Approach to Human Discourses  12. In Search of a Real Freedom: Ubuntu and the Media  13. Charles Taylor in the Archives  14. Neoliberalising Higher Education: Language and Performing Purpose in Corporatised Universities  15. They are Burning Memory  16. Cultural Studies under Mediterranean Skies  17. Marx, Labour Economics and the Academy  18. Academic Managerialism in the Art and Design School