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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457236303321

Autore

Roggero Gigi <1973->

Titolo

The production of living knowledge [[electronic resource] ] : the crisis of the university and the transformation of labor in Europe and North America / / Gigi Roggero ; translated and with a foreword by Enda Brophy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-21405-9

9786613214058

1-4399-0575-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrophyEnda

Disciplina

378.4

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Economic aspects - Europe

Education, Higher - Economic aspects - North America

Labor productivity - Effect of education on - Europe

Labor productivity - Effect of education on - North America

Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - Europe

Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - North America

Educational change - Europe

Educational change - North America

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the Italian.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Translator's Foreword: Cognitive Capitalism and the University, by Enda Brophy; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Living on the Borders; 1. The Future Is Archaic; 2. Coordinates of Capitalist Transition; 3. Corporatization of the University: Rhetoric, Trends, Actuality; 4. The Production of Living Knowledge; 5. Borders and Lines of Flight: The Institutions of the Common; 6. Brief Observations on Method: The Production of Knowledge and Conricerca; Conclusion: The Time of the Common; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Evaluating higher education institutions-particularly the rise of the "global university"-and their rapidly changing role in the global era,



Gigi Roggero finds the system in crisis. In his groundbreaking book, The Production of Living Knowledge, Roggero examines the university system as a key site of conflict and transformation within "cognitive capitalism"-a regime in which knowledge has become increasingly central to the production process at large. Based on extensive fieldwork carried out through the activist method of conricerca, or "co-research," wherein researche