Neoliberalizing Diversity In Liberal Arts College Life

Author : Bonnie Urciuoli
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800731776

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Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life by Bonnie Urciuoli Pdf

As neoliberalism has expanded from corporations to higher education, the notion of “diversity” is increasingly seen as the contribution of individuals to an organization. By focusing on one liberal arts college, author Bonnie Urciuoli shows how schools market themselves as “diverse” communities to which all members contribute. She explores how students of color are recruited, how their lives are institutionally organized, and how they provide the faces, numbers, and stories that represent schools as diverse. In doing so, she finds that unlike students’ routine experiences of racism or other social differences, neoliberal diversity is mainly about improving schools’ images.

Author : José Cobas,Bonnie Urciuoli,Joe Feagin,Daniel Delgado
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000530995

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The Spanish Language in the United States by José Cobas,Bonnie Urciuoli,Joe Feagin,Daniel Delgado Pdf

The Spanish Language in the United States addresses the rootedness of Spanish in the United States, its racialization, and Spanish speakers’ resistance against racialization. This novel approach challenges the "foreigner" status of Spanish and shows that racialization victims do not take their oppression meekly. It traces the rootedness of Spanish since the 1500s, when the Spanish empire began the settlement of the new land, till today, when 39 million U.S. Latinos speak Spanish at home. Authors show how whites categorize Spanish speaking in ways that denigrate the non-standard language habits of Spanish speakers—including in schools—highlighting ways of overcoming racism.

Author : D. Brent Edwards Jr.,Antoni Verger,Marcia McKenzie,Keita Takayama
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781447368045

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Researching Global Education Policy by D. Brent Edwards Jr.,Antoni Verger,Marcia McKenzie,Keita Takayama Pdf

The movement of policy is a core feature of contemporary education reform. Many different concepts, including policy transfer, borrowing and lending, travelling, diffusion and mobility, have been deployed to study how and why policy moves across jurisdictions, scales of governance, policy sectors or organisations. However, the underlying theoretical perspectives and the foundational assumptions of different approaches to policy movement remain insufficiently discussed. To address this gap, this book places front and center questions of theory, ontology, epistemology and method related to policy movement. It explores a wide diversity of approaches to help understand the policy movement phenomena, providing a useful guide on global studies in education, as well as insights into the future of this dynamic area of work.

Author : Gry Cathrin Brandser
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800735378

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Humboldt Revisited by Gry Cathrin Brandser Pdf

Humboldt Revisited offers a fresh perspective on the contemporary discourse surrounding reform of European universities. Arguing that contemporary reform derives its basis from pre-constructed truths about the so-called ‘Humboldt-university,’ this monograph traces the historical descent of these truths to the American reception of Humboldt's ideas from the mid-19th century up until the 1960s. Drawing from a rich selection of historical sources, this volume offers an alternative to conventional explanations of the forces behind the ongoing reform of European universities. It also challenges the conventional historical narrative on the Humboldt University, providing new insight into the American reception of the German ideas.

Author : Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols,Amy C. Lewis,Dave Tomczyk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000890136

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Entrepreneurial Cosplay by Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols,Amy C. Lewis,Dave Tomczyk Pdf

Entrepreneurial Cosplay takes a comprehensive and insightful look at the business of cosplay, exploring the ways that artists and fans engage in entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial practices to gain personal and professional success. Centered around the concept of entrepreneurship and the newly emerging concept of intrapreneurship – using entrepreneurial principles to enhance or further an existing concept, organization or product – the book showcases the ways in which cosplayers create new ideas, new ways of working and new ways of doing things, exploiting their knowledge to create new opportunities. By analyzing the numerous motivations driving cosplay behavior (self-expression, external recognition and financial gain), this volume provides a unique view of current cosplay practice and its relationship to economic activity. Offering important insight into this emerging area, this book will be of interest to scholars seeking to learn how entrepreneurial and economic models may be used to understand the emerging field of cosplay studies, as well as students and scholars working in the fields of Entrepreneurship, Business, Fan Studies, Visual Art Studies and Gender Studies.

Author : Joseph B. Cuseo,Aaron Thompson (Sociologist)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : College students
ISBN : 0757562418

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Humanity Diversity and the Liberal Arts by Joseph B. Cuseo,Aaron Thompson (Sociologist) Pdf

Author : Sanford Schram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317271680

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Neoliberalizing the University: Implications for American Democracy by Sanford Schram Pdf

This collection brings together essays to address the crisis of Higher Education today, focusing on its neoliberalization. Higher Education has been under assault for several decades as neoliberalism’s preference for market-based reforms sweeps across the US political economy. The recent push for neoliberalizing the academy comes at a time when it is ripe for change, especially as it continues to confront growing financial pressure, particularly in the public sector. The resulting cutbacks in public funding, especially to state universities, led to a variety of debilitating changes: increases in tuition, growing student debt, more students combining working and schooling, declining graduation rates for minorities and low-income students, increased reliance on adjuncts and temporary faculty, and most recently growing interest in mass processing of students via online instruction. While many serious questions arise once we begin to examine what is happening in higher education today, one particularly critical question concerns the implications of these changes on the relationship of education to as yet still unrealized democratic ideals. The 12 essays collected in this volume create important resources for students, faculty, citizens and policymakers who want to find ways to address contemporary threats to the higher education-democracy connection. This book was originally published as a special issue of New Political Science.

Author : Elizabeth Aries,Richard Berman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 1439909660

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Speaking of Race and Class by Elizabeth Aries,Richard Berman Pdf

A sequel to the insightful Race and Class Matters at an Elite College that examines the challenges of diversity from freshman orientation to graduation

Author : Bonnie Urciuoli
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478610496

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Exposing Prejudice by Bonnie Urciuoli Pdf

Urciuolis award-winning book explores how language and the social construction of race, class, and ethnicity shape the lives of working-class Puerto Ricans living in New York City. Her reflexive ethnographic study is a combination of two absorbing features: her analyses of language and power relations based on key principles in semiotic and linguistic anthropology, paired with the authentic voices of individuals who share their lived experiences of speaking Spanish and English. The subjects conversations, interview responses, and anecdotes are saturated with ideas about what correct English means to them. Through these extended transcripts readers gain insight about languages role in cultural dynamics that tangle minority populations in challenges, such as limiting where individuals and families live and work. Urciuolis provocative research and fieldwork give readers a rich understanding of language as the domain in which racial, ethnic, and class hierarchies are experienced.

Author : Bonnie Urciuoli
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781785338649

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The Experience of Neoliberal Education by Bonnie Urciuoli Pdf

The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package. Through ethnography-based analysis, the contributors to this volume explore how these commodified "experiences" have turned students into consumers and given them the illusion that they are in control of their investment. They further reveal how the pressure to plan every move with a constant eye on a demonstrable return has supplanted traditional approaches to classroom education and profoundly altered the student experience.

Author : Wendy Brown
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781935408536

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Undoing the Demos by Wendy Brown Pdf

This is a book for the age of resistance, for the occupiers of the squares, for the generation of Occupy Wall Street. The premier radical political philosopher of our time offers a devastating critique of the way neoliberalism has hollowed out democracy.

Author : David Harvey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191622946

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A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey Pdf

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are minimized, while the obligations of the state to provide for the welfare of its citizens are diminished. David Harvey, author of 'The New Imperialism' and 'The Condition of Postmodernity', here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. While Thatcher and Reagan are often cited as primary authors of this neoliberal turn, Harvey shows how a complex of forces, from Chile to China and from New York City to Mexico City, have also played their part. In addition he explores the continuities and contrasts between neoliberalism of the Clinton sort and the recent turn towards neoconservative imperialism of George W. Bush. Finally, through critical engagement with this history, Harvey constructs a framework not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements.

Author : Mark Purcell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135919252

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Recapturing Democracy by Mark Purcell Pdf

Recapturing Democracy is a short yet synoptic introduction to urban democracy in our era of political neoliberalism and economic globalization. Combining an original argument with a number of case studies, Mark Purcell explores the condition of democracy in contemporary Western cities. Whereas many scholars focus on what Purcell calls "procedural democracy" – i.e., electoral politics and access to it – he instead assesses "substantive democracy." By this he means the people’s ability to have some say over issues of social justice, material well being, and economic equality. Neoliberalism, which advocates a diminished role for the state and increasing power for mobile capital, has diminished substantive democracy in recent times, he argues. He looks at case studies where this has occurred and at others that show how neoliberalism can be resisted in the name of substantive democracy. Ultimately, he utilizes Henri Lefebvre’s notion of "the right to the city," which encompasses substantive as well as procedural democracy for ordinary urban citizens.

Author : David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780472052714

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The Biopolitics of Disability by David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder Pdf

Theorizing the role of disabled subjects in global consumer culture and the emergence of alternative crip/queer subjectivities in film, fiction, media, and art

Author : José Cobas,Bonnie Urciuoli,Joe Feagin,Daniel Delgado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000531107

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The Spanish Language in the United States by José Cobas,Bonnie Urciuoli,Joe Feagin,Daniel Delgado Pdf

The Spanish Language in the United States addresses the rootedness of Spanish in the United States, its racialization, and Spanish speakers’ resistance against racialization. This novel approach challenges the "foreigner" status of Spanish and shows that racialization victims do not take their oppression meekly. It traces the rootedness of Spanish since the 1500s, when the Spanish empire began the settlement of the new land, till today, when 39 million U.S. Latinos speak Spanish at home. Authors show how whites categorize Spanish speaking in ways that denigrate the non-standard language habits of Spanish speakers—including in schools—highlighting ways of overcoming racism.