Dancing on a Double Edged Sword: Sustainability within University Corp.

Auteurs-es

  • Larch Maxey Department of Geography, School of the Environment and Society Swansea University

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v8i3.842

Mots-clés :

Sustainability, corporatization, academia, neo-liberalism, radical critique

Résumé

This paper explores the two-way relationship between sustainability and the accelerating corporatisation of academia. It shows that ‘sustainability’ is capable of being mobilised to serve neo-liberal interests and further drive this corporatisation. However, the paper also argues that within the discourses and practices of sustainability lies a radical critique of the very neo-liberalism which seeks to exploit it. Moving beyond a binary framing of sustainability vs corporatisation the paper urges a wider and more active engagement with the double edged sword of sustainability within the corporate university.

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Maxey, L. (2009). Dancing on a Double Edged Sword: Sustainability within University Corp. ACME: E-Revue Internationale De géographies Critiques, 8(3), 440–453. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v8i3.842