Practices of conformity and resistance in the marketisation of the academy: Bourdieu, professionalism and academic capitalism

Critical Studies in Education

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 315-331

  Collyer, Fran M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

academic capitalism; Bourdieu; knowledge society; managerialism; marketisation; neoliberalism; new professions; professionalisation; universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941172000     PISSN: 17508487     EISSN: 17508495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2014.985690     Document Type: Article

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