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Academia in Crisis Donskis, Leonidas ; Sabelis, I.H.J.; Kamsteeg, Frans; Wels, Harry VU Research Portal Academia in Crisis Donskis, Leonidas ; Sabelis, I.H.J.; Kamsteeg, Frans; Wels, Harry 2019 DOI (link to publisher) 10.1163/9789004402034_011 Link to publication in VU Research Portal citation for published version (APA) Donskis, L. (Ed.), Sabelis, I. H. J. (Ed.), Kamsteeg, F., & Wels, H. (2019). Academia in Crisis: The Rise and Risk of Neoliberal Education in Europe. (Value Inquiry Book Series; Vol. 335). 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Sep. 2021 Academia in Crisis Leonidas Donskis, Ida Sabelis, Frans Kamsteeg and Harry Wels - 978-90-04-40203-4 Downloaded from Brill.com03/03/2020 05:15:00PM via Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam <UN> Value Inquiry Book Series Founding Editor Robert Ginsberg Executive Editor Leonidas Donskis✝ Managing Editor J.D. Mininger volume 335 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/vibs Leonidas Donskis, Ida Sabelis, Frans Kamsteeg and Harry Wels - 978-90-04-40203-4 Downloaded from Brill.com03/03/2020 05:15:00PM via Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam <UN> Academia in Crisis The Rise and Risk of Neoliberal Education in Europe Edited by Leonidas Donskis✝ Ida Sabelis Frans Kamsteeg Harry Wels LEIDEN | BOSTON Leonidas Donskis, Ida Sabelis, Frans Kamsteeg and Harry Wels - 978-90-04-40203-4 Downloaded from Brill.com03/03/2020 05:15:00PM via Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam <UN> This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. Further information and the complete license text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/ The terms of the CC license apply only to the original material. The use of material from other sources (indicated by a reference) such as diagrams, illustrations, photos and text samples may require further permission from the respective copyright holder. An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. More information about the initiative can be found at www .knowledgeunlatched.org. Cover illustration by Frans Kamsteeg. Used with permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Donskis, Leonidas, editor. Title: Academia in crisis : dystopic optimism and postalgic realism in university life / edited by Leonidas Donskis, Ida Sabelis, Frans Kamsteeg, Harry Wels. Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2019. | Series: Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; volume 335 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2019016584 (print) | lccn 2019980141 (ebook) | isbn 9789004401587 (hardback : alk. paper) | isbn 9789004402034 (ebook) Subjects: lcsh: Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--Europe. | Universities and colleges--Europe--Planning. | Europe--Intellectual life--21st century. Classification: lcc la622 .A328 2019 (print) | lcc la622 (ebook) | ddc 378.4--dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019016584 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019980141 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 0929-8436 ISBN 978-90-04-40158-7 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-40203-4 (e-book) Copyright 2019 by the Authors. Published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and producedLeonidas Donskis, in a sustainable Ida Sabelis, Fransmanner. Kamsteeg and Harry Wels - 978-90-04-40203-4 Downloaded from Brill.com03/03/2020 05:15:00PM via Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam <UN> Contents Notes on Contributors vii Introductory Thoughts 1 Tamara Shefer 1 Toward an Educational Dystopia? Liquid Evil, TINA, and Post-academic University 11 Leonidas Donskis 2 Academic Homecoming. Stories from the Field 36 Frans Kamsteeg 3 Universities as Laboratories. Internationalisation and the Liquidity of National Learning 53 Stefano Bianchini 4 Liberal Arts to the Rescue of the Bachelor’s Degree in Europe 82 Samuel Abrahám 5 Academia in the Fast Lane vs. Organisational Ethnography and the Logic of Slow Food 111 Harry Wels 6 Timescapes in Academic Life. Cubicles of Time Control 129 Ida Sabelis 7 A Nomad of Academia. A Thematic Autobiography of Privilege 150 Joost van Loon 8 The Truth is Out There: ‘Educated fo’ Bollocks. Uni’s Just Institutional Daylight Robbery’. Universities in Crisis? What’s New? 169 Simon J. Charlesworth Epilogue 195 Ida Sabelis Index 199 Leonidas Donskis, Ida Sabelis, Frans Kamsteeg and Harry Wels - 978-90-04-40203-4 Downloaded from Brill.com03/03/2020 05:15:00PM via Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam <UN> Leonidas Donskis, Ida Sabelis, Frans Kamsteeg and Harry Wels - 978-90-04-40203-4 Downloaded from Brill.com03/03/2020 05:15:00PM via Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Notes on Contributors Samuel Abraham is President of Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts/Managing Direc- tor of ECOLAS. He studied International relations at the University of Toronto and at Carleton University in Ottawa where he obtained his PhD in Compara- tive Politics and Political Philosophy in 2001. He is co-founder and managing director of ECOLAS – Europe – a Consortium of Liberal Arts and Sciences building a network of over twenty liberal arts schools and programs in Europe (www.ecolas.eu). In 2006, he founded Bratislava International School of Liber- al Education (BISLA) where he serves as a Professor and rector (www.bisla.sk). He is author of numerous articles dealing with politics, political philosophy and education. Stefano Bianchini is Professor of East European Politics and History at the University of Bologna and Rector’s delegate for relations with Eastern Europe. Former director of the two-year Interdisciplinary MA in East European Studies (MIREES: a joint diplo- ma of the Universities of Bologna, St. Petersburg, Vytautas Magnus at Kaunas, and Corvinus of Budapest), he is visiting professor of the State University of St. Petersburg and Executive Editor of Southeastern Europe, Brill, Leiden, a blind peer review international journal indexed by Scopus and Web of Science ESCI, among others. Simon Charlesworth is unemployed and lives in Wath Upon Dearne, Rotherham. He is the author of, among other work, A Phenomenology of Working Class Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2000). His research interests include Phenomenology, Sociol- ogy of Praxis, mental health and the role of institutions in the reproduction of social exclusion. Leonidas Donskis† 1962–2016, was born in Klaipėda, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union. He was a Lith- uanian philosopher, political theorist, historian of ideas, social analyst, and political commentator, professor of politics and important academic leader, dean and professor Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, Honorary Consul of Finland in Kaunas and deputy chairman of the Lithuanian Jewish Commu- nity. He was also the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2014. As a public figure in Lithuania, he acted as a defender of human rights Leonidas Donskis, Ida Sabelis, Frans Kamsteeg and Harry Wels - 978-90-04-40203-4 Downloaded from Brill.com03/03/2020 05:15:00PM via Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam <UN> viii Notes on Contributors and civil liberties. A centre-liberal politician, he has always been opposed to all extreme or exclusionary attitudes and forms of violent politics. Instead, he stressed the importance to coexist with democratic programs of other non- exclusive ideologies, and moderation (adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Leonidas_Donskis). He published widely – for all audiences and with a decisive intellectual curiosity, broad knowledge and wit. Frans Kamsteeg is Associate Professor of Organisation Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He holds a BA in History, and a PhD in Social Sciences. He teaches qualitative research methods and organisational culture theory. His most recent research focuses on culture and identity aspects
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