Time and Space in the Neoliberal University Futures and fractures in

This book offers new interdisciplinary analyses of borders and blockages in higher education and how they can be inhabited and reworked. Amidst stratified inequalities of race, gender, class and sexuality, across time and space, contributors explore what

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Time and Space in the Neoliberal University “The editors have brought together a rich and insightful collection which add specificity and nuance to our understanding of neoliberalism - and resistance to it - in contemporary academia.” —Professor Rosalind Gill, City, University of London, UK

Maddie Breeze · Yvette Taylor · Cristina Costa Editors

Time and Space in the Neoliberal University Futures and Fractures in Higher Education

Editors Maddie Breeze School of Education University of Strathclyde Glasgow, UK

Yvette Taylor School of Education University of Strathclyde Glasgow, UK

Cristina Costa Department of Education and Childhood University of the West of England Bristol, UK

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Foreword I

This is a refreshing contribution, full of straightforward discussions about the possibilities and tensions facing academics, particularly academics who have less power such as early career academics or as a result of a combination of characteristics such as gender, race, faith, sexual orientation, disability and social class. The contributors to this book are challenging the orthodoxies that are embedded in the Academy. If you read the chapters, as I have had the privilege to, you will see that the chapters make liquid again the spaces that tradition, disciplinary parochoialism, pedagogical stasis, colonisation have solidified. This book loosens academic straightjackets and helps us to rethin