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Call for papers - Edufactory Journal, No. 1 |
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Tuesday, 07 September 2010 04:53 |
Transforming Universities: Measure, Transition, Institution 'The old institutions are crumbling ...' - so began the introduction to the zero issue of Edufactory Journal on the double crisis of the university and the global economy. Paradoxically, one of the conditions of this double crisis is the global expansion of the university. The old institutions are crumbling but they are simultaneously trying to reinvent themselves, to transplant themselves, to network themselves. This issue of the Edufactory Journal will investigate two faces of this situation. The first section entitled 'Occupations' will examine the global transition of higher education with a focus on new institutions being established in different parts of the world. The second section entitled 'Anomalies' will focus on struggles against the 'system of measure' that presides over the transition of universities. As the overall ambition of the issue is to understand the connection between the globalization of higher education and the imposition of measure, we also welcome contributions that critically analyse the connections between these processes.
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edu-factory journal: the zero issue is out! |
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Written by editorial board
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 09:01 |
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The Double Crisis  After more than three years of vigorous discussion, a collective book published in various languages and countless mobilizations all around the world, the edu-factory collective has decided to adopt a new instrument: a freely downloadable journal. Like all our projects, this journal isn't simply another publication of experts but an active transnational laboratory founded on open, collective cooperation in both its contents as well as its editing and production process. It is an experiment born from the common production of shared knowledges, and resistance to exploitation inside and outside the universities. Moreover it is a step toward the goal of building up autonomous institutions. The journal has two sections: "occupations" and "anomalies", which aim respectively to analyze transformations of the university and conflicts in knowledge production. The edu-factory journal has an editorial board, comprising critical scholars, students, and activists from all around the world, and it is open to free contributions. Finally, by experimenting with forms of collective reading and review, it aims to question the traditional peer review processes, and to open new spaces of thinking, learning and struggle within and against the hierarchies of the global knowledge and university market.
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"Toward a Global Autonomous University" or How to Build a Global Autonomous University? |
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Written by edu-factory collective
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Sunday, 11 October 2009 00:00 |
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The edu-factory book: "Toward a Global Autonomous University: Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge, and Exodus from the Education Factory" (Autonomedia), is out!  Edu-factory plans a series book launches to build up a transnationalnetwork of research, education and knowledge production, based onstruggles, experiments and experiences that already exist across theglobe.
"Toward a Global Autonomous University" in English, "UniversidadGlobale" in Spanish and "Univerista' globale" in Italian is thebook edited by the edu-factory collective based on two years of webbased discussion on conflicts and transformations of the university.
This book is a tool to articulate student and faculty struggles withinuniversity systems at the global level and to build up aglobal autonomous university. We do not want to enter the educationmarket. On the contrary, our aim is to open a process of conflict inthe knowledge production system and question its mechanisms ofhierarchisation.
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Neo-liberal conditions of knowledge - Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements Volume 10 Number 2 June 2009 |
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Tuesday, 08 September 2009 21:58 |
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Editorial introduction Kuan-Hsing CHEN Essays Domination by ‘money power’: one year after the corporatization of national universities OZAWA Hiroaki (Translated by NAKAYAMA Izumi) ‘State-guided’ university reform and colonial conditions of knowledge production Myungkoo KANG Knowledge production in the era of neo-liberal globalization: reflections on the changing academic conditions in Taiwan Kuan-Hsing CHEN and Sechin Y. S. CHIEN (Translated by Tao-lin HWANG) |
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The cuts, lay-offs and tuition-fee hikes that are besetting higher and further education internationally are naturally a direct response to the drama of the financial crisis and its ricocheting bomb of personal, commercial and national debt. But they also have deeper roots. They should be understood as part of the more gradual process of what George Caffentzis, in his analysis of the international situation, calls the ‘breakdown of the edu-deal'; the inability for capital, and therefore the state, to pay for the costs of producing a well educated workforce or to guarantee that investment in education will result in a more vigorous economy and increased living standards for those with qualifications.