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The production of living knowledge : the crisis of the university and the transformation of labor in Europe and North America / Gigi Roggero ; translated and with a foreword by Enda Brophy.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Roggero, Gigi, 1973-
Contributor:
Brophy, Enda.
Standardized Title:
Produzione del sapere vivo. English
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Education, Higher--Economic aspects--Europe.
Education, Higher.
Education, Higher--Economic aspects--North America.
Labor productivity--Effect of education on--Europe.
Labor productivity.
Labor productivity--Effect of education on--North America.
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--Europe.
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--North America.
Educational change--Europe.
Educational change.
Educational change--North America.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (214 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Evaluating higher education institutions-particularly the rise of the "global university"-and their rapidly changing role in the global era, Gigi Roggero finds the system in crisis. In his groundbreaking book, The Production of Living Knowledge, Roggero examines the university system as a key site of conflict and transformation within "cognitive capitalism"-a regime in which knowledge has become increasingly central to the production process at large. Based on extensive fieldwork carried out through the activist method of conricerca, or "co-research," wherein researche
Contents:
Contents; Translator's Foreword: Cognitive Capitalism and the University, by Enda Brophy; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Living on the Borders; 1. The Future Is Archaic; 2. Coordinates of Capitalist Transition; 3. Corporatization of the University: Rhetoric, Trends, Actuality; 4. The Production of Living Knowledge; 5. Borders and Lines of Flight: The Institutions of the Common; 6. Brief Observations on Method: The Production of Knowledge and Conricerca; Conclusion: The Time of the Common; Notes; Index
Notes:
Translated from the Italian.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786613214058
9781283214056
1283214059
9781439905753
1439905754
OCLC:
756484106

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