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Readings on the Neoliberal University & Why We Must Support Graduate Students.

December 17, 2021 by Allison Harbin in Systemic Problems In Ed

Readings on the Neoliberal University & Why We Must Support Graduate Students.

Free Resources: A brief annotated bibliography with full PDFs.

In this post: A brief annotated bibliography featuring my receipts for the January 2022 essay "What is the Subversive Intellectual," recommendations, and further reading.
Next week: I pose a discourse about the adjunct crisis, and the larger systemic educational crisis we are currently in, and ponder on the differences our generation of thinkers can make for the next.
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Here are my receipts for the January 7th, 2022 essay, "What is the Subversive Intellectual."

Receipts & Further Reading Recommendations:

Moten, Fred, and Stefano Harney. "The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses," Social Text, 79 Vol. 22, No 2. Summer 2004.

Lorde, Audre. "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. The Crossing Press Feminist Series:1984, 2007

Bousquet, Marc. "The Waste Product of Graduate Education: Toward a Dictatorship of the Flexible." Works and Days 41/42, Vol. 21, No 1-2. 2003.

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n/a “How to Fix the Adjunct Crisis.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 30, 2018)

Tamayo, Ana M Fores. “The Adjunctification of Higher Education: Its Dirty Little Secret Exposed” Industrial Worker (Apr 1, 2014)

Swidler, Eva. "The Pernicious Silencing of the Adjunct Faculty." The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 30, 2017).

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Dreger, Alice. “Take Back the Ivory Tower.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (Oct 1, 2017)

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