Contesting Higher Education: Student Movements against Neoliberal Universities - Hardcover

Della Porta, Donatella; Cini, Lorenzo; Guzmán-Concha, César

 
9781529208627: Contesting Higher Education: Student Movements against Neoliberal Universities
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1529208629 ISBN 13: 9781529208627
Publisher: Bristol University Press, 2020

Synopsis

This investigation of student protests in the UK, Canada, Chile and Italy represents the first comparative review of the subject. As well as examining origins and outcomes of neoliberal university policies and practices, the authors locate the wave of contention within wider social and political contexts, providing valuable conclusions for anyone with an interest in social, political and related studies.

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About the Authors

Donatella Della Porta is the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, the Director of the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos) and the coordinator of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence.

Lorenzo Cini is Marie Curie Skłodowska Research Fellow at the University College Dublin, where he is the principal investigator of the MSCA-IF-2020 research action COntesting GOvernance by NUmbers: The Mobilizations of Food Delivery Couriers across Europe in Time of the Pandemic (COGONU).

Cesar Guzman-Concha is a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Geneva. He has worked and collaborated with universities in Spain, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and Chile.

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Publisher
Bristol University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1529208629
ISBN 13 
9781529208627
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
230