The big shifts: massification, marketization and their consequences -- The wellbeing of academics in the palimpsestic university -- Pluralism and its discontents: teaching critical theory and the politics of hope -- The idleness of academics: hopeful reflections on the usefulness of cultural studies -- Feeling like a fraud: or, the upside of knowing you can never be good enough
Summary
This book discusses the challenges of teaching and researching in the contemporary university, the purpose of research and its fundamental value, and the role of the academy against the background of major changes to nature of the university itself
