The Knowledge Business: The Commodification of Urban and Housing Research - Couverture rigide

Imrie, Rob

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754676900 ISBN 13 : 9780754676904

Editeur : Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Chris Allen is Professor of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and Rob Imrie is Professor of Geography at King's College London, UK and Director of the Cities Group

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754676900
• ISBN 13: 9780754676904
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 298
• Éditeur: Allen Chris
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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