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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 29–48.
Published: 01 September 2014
... savage social inequality and a bifurcated labor market as individual mental functions whose ideal type is corporate decision making; it also aids the transition to corporate control of education itself. Following this trope from the realm of cultural logic to public policy allows us to watch...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (1 (70)): 61–80.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Micki McGee Duke University Press 2002 Hooked on Higher Education and Other Tales from Adjunct Faculty Organizing How I Gave Up My $50,000-a-Year Teaching Habit Micki McGee...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (1 (70)): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2002
.... w3.arizona.edu/~phil/grad.htm . Aronowitz, Stanley. 2000 . Academic labor and the future of higher education. In The knowledge factory: Dismantling the corporate university and creating true higher learning , 68 -101. Boston: Beacon. Berube, Michael. 1998 . The employment of English: Theory...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 13–35.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Stanley Aronowitz Duke University Press 2004 Against Schooling EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CLASS The crisis in American education, on the one hand, announces...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Nathan Snaza; Julietta Singh Abstract This introduction to the special issue “Educational Undergrowth” proposes an ecological view of educational institutions and practices, one that foregrounds the porosity of borders so that entities and institutions that can sometimes seem distinct are thought...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 93–123.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Jaime Acosta Gonzalez; Eli Meyerhoff Abstract Duke University was founded on tobacco wealth, and now it has a tobacco-free campus. How should we understand this change? How can communities around this university, and higher education broadly, reckon with our historical and ongoing complicities...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 69–92.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to dismantle the private university? Or, can this tool of divestment be strengthened to be abolitionist: can endowment divestment campaigns build analysis and solidarity across a range of campuses and communities about the multifaceted ways the project of postsecondary education is tied to the prison...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 251–256.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Randy Martin; Eng-Beng Lim As a critical nomenclature in Social Text , university points to a constellation of trends that coalesces around the corporate ethos of higher education: professionalization, academic capitalism, industry standardization, anti-intellectualism, managerialist protocols...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 73–96.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Sonali Thakkar; Kyla Schuller; Jules Gill-Peterson This article traces the emergence of racial plasticity in the discourse of midcentury liberal internationalism and antiracism, focusing on the 1950 Statement on Race by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The author...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 147–151.
Published: 01 September 2009
... that this text is educative before it is didactic and that its meaning is historical and available only in the encounter with the reader, an encounter that produces both reader and text. There is no room here for a correct content independent of reading in history. Brown's example is used to stage an encounter...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2013
... local and planetary but also reconstitute culture and humanity as a whole. In the second and final part, I explore what their critical reception in American higher education reveals about the failures of postcolonial studies in the age of globalization. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 Third World...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Coleman Nye On June 13, 2013, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that isolated, unmodified DNA cannot be patented, in the case of Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. —a case that has been called the Brown v. Board of Education of genetic science. In line with Cheryl...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 135–146.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Martin Savransky Written in the wake of the strike action that has seen academics and students across more than sixty UK universities create new interstices and alliances against the marketization of higher education and its generalized forms of impoverishment, this parabolic article experiments...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 17–38.
Published: 01 March 2020
... disposition to care , as both noun and verb. This deep context helps us account for the rise of a statist, ameliorative new liberalism at the turn of the century and the building of a midcentury apparatus of “white care”: a surround of institutions and infrastructure dedicated to the education, health...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 89–92.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Michael Pelias Abstract Stanley Aronowitz was the archetypical organic intellectual, one who maintained critical theory in its most substantive and adaptive form. Never one to succumb to defeatism or intellectual retreat, he maintained the grand narrative of emancipatory politics and education. His...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 97–105.
Published: 01 December 2008
... a close analysis of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's February 2008 proposed educational initiative to teach the meaning of the Holocaust to every French fifth grader. Sarkozy calls upon the specter of dead Jewish child-victims in order to produce a supposedly universal social body in the present...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 1–23.
Published: 01 June 2009
... on the exercise of popular sovereignty, but also, in complementary fashion, on the creation of civic pedagogies: on educational institutions that set specific norms of social and political identity, and thereby transform the “mob” into a national “people.” I argue that these kinds of normative (or disciplinary...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Mara Mills This article traces the history of speech wave visualization and the longstanding relationship between phonetics, communication engineering, and deaf oral education. American telephone engineers drew on this history to build the sound spectrograph in the 1940s, a machine that transformed...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 47–67.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Bennett Carpenter; Laura Goldblatt; Lenora Hanson Abstract This article analyzes the case of Avital Ronell, Amy Hungerford's response to striking Yale graduate students, and higher education funding to argue that such instances illustrate the precise features of rampant professionalization—its...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 1–11.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Randy Martin Duke University Press 2004 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction Education as an end in itself...