Humanities for taxpayers: Some problems

New Literary History

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 111-129

  Morris, Meaghan ^a  

^a Lingnan University

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EID: 53549102404     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2005.0025     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. John Anderson, Studies in Empirical Philosophy (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1962), 336-37
2. Dorothy Illing, "Focus on Humanities in Quest for Profits," The Australian, June 30, 2004, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au (accessed July 2, 2004)
3. K. K. Ruthven, ed., Beyond the Disciplines - The New Humanities (Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1992), vii
4. Louis Menand, "The Marketplace of Ideas," American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper, no. 49 (2001), http://www.acls.org/op49.htm
5. I refer to Lyotard's model of the postmodern as "not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant." Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), 79
6. Comedian Tony Martin, cited on the cover of Mark Davis, Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism, 2nd ed. (St. Leonards, NSW: Allen 8c Unwin, 1999)
7. Quotations in this paragraph are all from Anderson, "The Servile State," 339
8. J. S. Dawkins, Higher Education: A Policy Statement (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988)
9. See also J. S. Dawkins, The Challenge for Higher Education in Australia, (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987)
10. and Higher Education: A Policy Discussion Paper (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987)
11. Ian Hunter, "Personality As a Vocation: The Political Rationality of the Humanities," in Accounting for the Humanities: The Language of Culture and the Logic of Government, ed. Ian Hunter, Denise Meredyth, Bruce Smith, and Geoff Stokes (Brisbane: Griffith University Institute for Cultural Policy Studies, 1991), 7
12. Simon Margin son and Mark Considine, The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 20
13. Stewart R. Sutherland, Higher Education in Hong Kong: Report of the University Grants Committee (Hong Kong: University Grants Committee, March 2002)
14. Masao Miyoshi, "'Globalization,' Culture, and the University," in The Cultures of Globalization, ed. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), 265
15. I discuss this development in "From 'Criticism' to 'Research': The Textual in the Academy," Comparative Cultural Research: Hong Kong/Western Sydney Exchanges, http://www.uws.edu.au/research/researchcenrres/ccr/ partnerships/ lingnanuniversity
16. Tony Bennett, "Putting Policy into Cultural Studies," in Cultural Studies, ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler (New York: Routledge, 1992), 31
17. Celebrating the Humanities, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, November 2-5, 1994
18. See Deryck M. Schleuder, ed., The Humanities and a Creative Nation: Jubilee Essays (Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1995)
19. Knowing Ourselves and Others: The Humanities in Australia - Into the 21st Century, 3 vols. (Canberra: National Board of Employment, Education and Training, and Australian Research Council, 1998). It is noteworthy that seventeen of the twenty-seven chapters of the Discipline Surveys volume (vol. 2 of the report) used the term "Studies" in their titles to designate a disciplinary area: for example, Chinese Studies, Classical Studies, European Studies, English Studies. Ruthven, "The Future of Disciplines: A Report on Ignorance," is in vol. 3, 95-112
20. See Keith Windschuttle, The Killing of History: How a Discipline Is Being Murdered by Literary Critics and Social Theorists (Sydney: Macleay Press, 1994)
21. Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark, eds., The History Wars (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003)
22. Stuart Macintyre, ed., The Historian's Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2004)
23. See the CHASS home page, http://www.chass.org.au
24. See Jing Wang, High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996)
25. Evan Watkins, Work Time: English Departments and the Circulation of Cultural Value (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989), 3
26. Morris and McCalman, "Public Culture," 13
27. Marginson and Considine, The Enterprise University, 8
28. Ross Chambers, Room for Maneuver: Reading (the) Oppositional (in) Narrative (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
29. See Morris, "From 'Criticism' to 'Research': The Textual in the Academy." The rationale for such work is developed by Ien Ang, Who Needs Cultural Research?, (working paper, Walter Chapin Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle)
30. See http://www.ln.edu.hk/ihss/crd/. The interaction of Urban Chinese Cultural Studies with Media/Community education is assured within the Kwan Fong program (which I coordinate) by Professor Stephen Ching-kiu Chan and Dr. Po-keung Hui
31. Menand, "The Marketplace of Ideas," 11
32. Lindsay Waters, Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2004)
33. Carolyn Steedman, "Culture, Cultural Studies, and the Historians," in Grossberg, Nelson, and Treichler, Cultural Studies, 620