Contents – The Idea of the University (Issue 29)
Guest-Editorial
What ‘Use’ is the Liberal Ruse? Debating the ‘Idea’ of the University
Debaditya Bhattacharya
Manufacturing Unfreedom
The Commoditization of Education
Prabhat Patnaik
Neoliberal Savagery and the Assault on Higher Education as a Democratic Public Sphere
Henry A. Giroux
Shadow-Images of a Factory: The Contradictions of the University as a Service Industry
Nandini Chandra
The University and the Banality of the Everyday
Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy: Staking a Claim Against the Macrostructural Unconscious
Peter McLaren
What if, the University is a Parrot’s Training?
Anup Dhar
Sectoral trappings
Debarun Sarkar
(A)politics in/of the University?
Is there a Calling on the Left?
Prasanta Chakravarty
Don’t Study, Be Happy.
Vijay Prashad
In Support of Students’ Political Activism
Anand Teltumbde
Converging Struggles and Diverging Interests: A look at the recent unrest in universities
Hany Babu MT
A Marketplace of the Mind
The Crisis of the Public University
Supriya Chaudhuri
Of Utopias and Universities
Ania Loomba
Academic Freedom and the Ownership of Knowledge
Lawrence Liang
Public Good, Private Interest, and Histories of Privilege
Audit Cultures and the Indian University as Credit-Capital
Rina Ramdev
The University in Question
Ari Sitas
Lineages of the Modern Public University: Perils and Prospects in a Comparative Perspective
Mushahid Hussain
Of Feudal Intellectual Capital: The History of the New Provincial Universities
Debaditya Bhattacharya
Antinomies of ‘Autonomy’
The Idea of a University and the Invention of Culture in Colonial/Post-colonial India
Mosarrap Hossain Khan
The Presidential Transition
Paramita Banerjee
University: The State’s Kitchen?
Akanksha Ahluwalia, Ishan Mohan, Sagar Sachdeva
Living and Learning at the University: Studentspeak
Saiyem Iftekhar
Contributors
The Idea of the University (Issue 29)
Photo: Debaditya Bhattacharya
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Massive drive is necessary to bring out the photographic reality of Indian Universities.
The appropriate authority could give time to recontour and relandscape the present plight of our higher educational institutions.
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Discontent in/about academia and the neoliberal university is global. Welcome to @CafeDissensus, Mumbai, and a special edition on the very idea of the institution ~ via Tiffany Kraft.