212 pages
228 x 145mm
ISBN: 978 1 85856 447 0
March 2009

Since the publication in 2003 of the first in the acclaimed Discourse, Power, Resistance Series, DPR has offered a sustained critique of educational and academic theory and practice in the UK, the US and, increasingly, elsewhere. This seventh volume is written by renowned academics concerned to sustain that critique and to affirm the true - and lasting - values of the academy, and how these values are maintained.

Terry Eagleton leads this exploration of how power operates in the academy with the argument that power is itself no bad thing, but other academics argue that its effect on the academy is corrosive

Contributors from the Caribbean, the USA, China and the UK show power - both overt and covert, internal and external to the universities - at work to determine what research may be done, what methodology used and what constraints and protocols observed.

But this book is not about submission. The message remains positive throughout. It may seem that power in the academy is vested in agencies whose programmes have little to do with the free advancement of learning, yet the book shows clearly how good educational and good research practice can thrive and maintain the best traditions of the academy, come what may.

Chapters include

• Loving Power Terry Eagleton (UK)


• In 1968, Structures Walked the Streets - will they do it again? Slavoj _i_ek (Slovenia)


• Culture, Power and the Academy Cameron McCarthy (USA)


• Commercialised Universities: the influence of the Military Chris Langley (UK)


• Academic Envy in a Post Apartheid Higher Education Institution Sechaba Mahlomaholo (S Africa)


• Affect Aliens: Happiness as a Cultural Politics Sara Ahmed (UK)


• Enabling research: whose voice gets heard? Ann Phoenix (UK)


• Degrees of Freedom: The Internet, the Academy and Digital Rights Michael Peters (USA)


• Resisting the Unethical in Formalised Ethics: Perspectives and Experiences
  Ansgar Allen (UK), Karin Anderson (USA), Laurette Bristol (Trinidad and Tobago),
  Yvonne Downs (UK), Daniel O'Neill (UK), Nicky Watts (UK) and Qi Wu (China)


• The Study of Teachers' Lives and Careers: An auto/biographical life history of the genre Pat Sikes (UK)