The Knowledge Business: The Commodification of Urban and Housing Research - Softcover

Imrie, Rob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 036760258X ISBN 13: 9780367602581

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book provides a critique of the knowledge business, and describes and evaluates its different manifestations in, and impacts on, the university sector. Its focus is the social sciences and, in particular, housing and urban studies. Drawing on a wide range of experiences, both in the UK and elsewhere, it illustrates the changing management of the academy, and the development, by university managers, of instruments or techniques of control to ensure that academics are disciplined in ways that are commensurate with achieving commercial goals. The individual chapters highlight the different ways in which the academy is being put to work for commercial gain, and they evaluate how far the public service ethos of the universities is coming apart in a context in which what is to be serviced is increasingly a private clientele defined by their 'ability to pay'. The Knowledge Business examines the contradictions and tensions associated with these processes, highlighting the implications for the academic labour process, and the future of the academy.

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About the Author

Chris Allen is Professor of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and Rob Imrie is Professor of Geography at King's College London, UK and Director of the Cities Group

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036760258X
• ISBN 13: 9780367602581
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300