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1Who is ‘society’ in the societal impact debate? – A critical discussion of policies of closureEducational Philosophy and Theory. forthcoming.Discussions about the role of universities have long been framed in terms of questions of what is good for the public, as well as how and whether higher education serves that good. Today, the language of ‘societal impact’ has become an accepted way for policymakers to frame the matter, but just who is included in the underlying definition of society that this formulation presupposes? In this paper, we consider how ‘society’ has been constructed in discussions of the societal impact of humanities…Read more
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2Who is ‘society’ in the societal impact debate? - A critical discussion of policies of closureEducational Philosophy and Theory (-): 1-14. 2024.Discussions about the role of universities have long been framed in terms of questions of what is good for the public, as well as how and whether higher education serves that good. Today, the language of societal impact has become an accepted way for policymakers to frame the matter, but just who is included in the underlying definition of society that this formulation presupposes? In this paper, we consider how society has been constructed in discussions of the societal impact of humanities res…Read more
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7Reopening the political economy of higher education — ontology against and beyond capital (review)Higher Education (-): 1-8. 2024.
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3For a nomad ontology against academic citizenshipJournal of Praxis in Higher Education 6 (2): 187-196. 2024.This paper argues against the apparently benign concept of ‘academic citizenship,’ drawing on resources and conceptual precedents from within higher education generally and philosophy specifically. It does so not only in order to offer a critique, however. By considering the directions from which criticism can be levelled at the notion of ‘citizenship’, and the State-centric conceptualisation of the university underlying it, an argument for an alternative conceptualisation of academic being is o…Read more
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133Matt Brim (2020), Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University. (review)Latiss 16 (1): 119-121. 2023.
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6World humanities - Towards an ontology of policyArts and Humanities in Higher Education 23 (1): 3-22. 2023.The border-crossing nature of science is well recognised, and has long been a focus of policy-makers with an interest in governing this space. The international aspect of the humanities is less clearly understood, and the extent to which it has been a focus of policy is similarly not well conceptualised. UNESCO’s efforts in this area provide a useful corpus of texts through which international humanities policy can be explored. Drawing on Theodor Adorno’s negative dialectics, this paper consider…Read more