LEADER 03828nam 22005653u 450 001 9910819182103321 005 20240314023953.0 010 $a1-78320-075-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000001101133 035 $a(EBL)1334343 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000973375 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12345847 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000973375 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10978834 035 $a(PQKB)10149463 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1334343 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001101133 100 $a20130812d2013|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aZombies in the Academy $eLiving Death in Higher Education 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBristol $cIntellect$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (398 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84150-714-8 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; SECTION 1: Zombification in the corporate university; First as tragedy, then as corpse; 'Being' post-death at Zombie University; University life, zombie states and reanimation; The living dead and the dead living: contagion and complicity in contemporary universities; Zombie solidarity; The Journal of Doctor Wallace; SECTION 2: Moribund content and infectious technologies; Zombie processes and undead technologies; The botnet: webs of hegemony/zombies who publish; The intranet of the living dead: software and universities 327 $aVirtual learning environments and the zombification of learning and teaching in British universities Mapping zombies: a guide for digital pre-apocalyptic analysis and post-apocalyptic survival; Infectious textbooks; SECTION 3 Zombie literacies and pedagogies; Undead universities, the plagiarism 'plague', paranoia and hypercitation; EAP programmes feeding the living dead of academia: critical thinking as a global antibody; Zombies in the classroom: education as consumption in two novels by Joyce Carol Oates; Queer pedagogies in zombie times: parody, neo-liberalism and higher education 327 $aZombies are us: the living dead as a tool for pedagogical reflection Escaping the zombie threat by mathematics; Toward a zombie pedagogy: embodied teaching and the student 2.0; SECTION 4:The post-apocalyptic terrain; 'Sois mort et tais toi': zombie mobs and student protests; Living-dead man's shoes? Teaching and researching glossy topics in a harsh social and cultural context; Feverish homeless cannibal; A report on the global Viral-Z outbreak and its impact on higher education; Bibliography; List of contributors; Index; Back Cover 330 $aZombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and communications studies, sociology, film studies, and education, to give a critical account of the political, cultural, and pedagogical state of the university through the metaphor of zombiedom. The contributions to this volume argue that the increasing corporatization of the academy - an environment emphasizing publication, narrow research, and a vulnerable tenure system - is creating a crisis in higher education best understood through the 606 $aEducation, Higher -- Aims and objectives 606 $aEducation 606 $aZombiism 615 4$aEducation, Higher -- Aims and objectives. 615 4$aEducation. 615 4$aZombiism. 676 $a378.01 700 $aWhelan$b Andrew$01606667 701 $aWalker$b Ruth$0995939 701 $aMoore$b Christopher$01606668 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819182103321 996 $aZombies in the Academy$93932572 997 $aUNINA