scholarly journals Contesting the Neoliberal Discourse of the World Class University: ‘Digital Socialism’, Openness and Academic Publishing

2020 ◽  
pp. 235-250
Author(s):  
Michael A. Peters ◽  
Tina Besley
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
World Journal ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Competitive Model ◽  
World Class

AbstractThe principal aim of this paper is to contest the neoliberal discourse of the World Class University (WCU). The first section provides an understanding of the concept of the WCU within the context of a global competitive model of the knowledge economy and contrasts it with the social-democratic model based on open science and education that also provides links between new modes of openness, academic publishing and the world journal architecture. The paper makes the case for ‘knowledge socialism’ that accurately depicts the greater communitarian moment of the sharing and participative academic economy based on peer-to-peer production, social innovation and collective intelligence. It instantiates the notion of knowledge as a global public good. Profound changes in the nature of technology has enabled a kind of ‘digital socialism’ which is clearly evident in the shift in political economy of academic publishing based Open Access, cOAlition S, and ‘Plan S’ (mandated in 2020) established by national research funding organisations in Europe with the support of the European Commission and the European Research Council (ERC). The social democratic alternative to neoliberalism and the WCU is a form of the sharing academic economy known as ‘knowledge socialism’. Universities need to share knowledge in the search for effective responses to pressing world problems of fragile global ecologies and the growing significance of technological unemployment. This is a model that proceeds from a very different set of economic and moral assumptions than the neoliberal knowledge economy and the WCU.

The Worldwide Instantiation of the University

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-42
Author(s):  
David John Frank ◽  
John W. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Research Universities ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
The University ◽  
University Expansion

This chapter describes the multi-dimensional expansion of the university, focusing especially on its accumulating numbers and global diffusion. It stresses the transcendence and universalism of the university at the global level. It also analyzes how university expansion is expected to occur earlier and more fully in the global core than in the global periphery, in democracies than in dictatorships, in the natural sciences than in the social sciences or humanities, and in world-class research universities more than local teaching colleges. The chapter highlights the university as a global institution and the global knowledge society that arises upon it. It examines the spread of universities around the world and studies local instances of a general model that is a central point to sociological neo-institutional theory.

scholarly journals Swimming with or Against the Tide: Has the International Labour Organisation Been Co-Opted by Neoliberal Hegemony

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gemma Habens
Keyword(s):  
Class Struggle ◽  
Director General ◽  
International Labour Organisation ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Primary Mechanism ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Globalisation ◽  
Labour Organisation

<p>Work is one, if not the, primary mechanism through which the majority of the world's population experience economic globalisation. Work is intimately connected to matters of human rights, social equality, welfare, and class struggle and it is increasingly determined by activities that occur in the international and transnational levels. Neoliberal globalisation has fundamentally restructured the world of work. It has also undermined the social democratic worldview of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on which the global governance portfolio for labour most squarely falls. The ILO's current Director General Juan Somavia, in referring to this era of neoliberal hegemony, has said that "the ILO has often been swimming against the tide". This thesis undertakes a thorough examination of Somavia's statement in order to determine the extent to which the neoliberal tide has saturated the organisation and its ideas?</p>

Responsibility and Social Innovation in Tourism Companies in Mexico

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
Maria del Carmen De la Luz Lanzagorta ◽  
Edith Sarai Lozada Sánchez ◽  
Jessica Abigail Cortés González ◽  
Concepción Nancy De Cristobal González
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Corporate Social

All over the world, institutions and organizations that recognize the social responsibility of companies are identified. They work on social innovation, which is companies' capacities to influence problems, generating synergies between the various sectors of society. In this research, a qualitative methodology was applied to a sample of companies from Puebla (Mexico) and the region to identify innovative practices of corporate social responsibility in the tourism sector and related companies. The central question that guides this research is, through which strategies or actions are companies in the tourism sector socially responsible and innovative? Therefore, the purpose is to show the good practices of different companies in the tourism sector in Puebla (Mexico) as well as their areas of opportunity and therefore strategies to strengthen responsibility and social innovation in the sector.

Social Continuity and Political Radicalization: Essen in the World War I Era

1985 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Eric D. Weitz
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Coal Mines ◽  
Social Democratic Party ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
German Republic

In the reichstag election of June 1920, Germany’s Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD) more than doubled its 1919 vote, while the Social Democratic Party (SPD) declined precipitously. Coming only nineteen months after the establishment of a German republic, the election indicated widespread discontent with the governments led by the Social Democrats, who had assumed power in November 1918. In Essen, located in the center of the Ruhr and dominated by coal mines and the giant Krupp works, the SPD was almost eliminated as a political force (Essen, Amt für Statistik und Wahlen, n.d.).

scholarly journals “Muting” Neoliberalism? Class and Colonial Legacies in Australia

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Income Inequalities ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Egalitarian Ethos ◽  
Direct Threat

Australian governments of left and right persuasions have seemingly embraced elements of the neoliberal agenda, as in many other parts of the world; but exactly how deeply these have been enacted, and how transformative they have been, must be understood in relation to key colonial, geographical and cultural inheritances. These inheritances include the hegemony of central government stewardship of the economy (essential in a colonized, sparsely populated continent of almost unmanageable scale), a long tradition of social democratic regulation, and cultural expectations of socio-spatial equality. Neoliberal policy projects have been “muted” by on-going equality claims, and some progressive “wins” in the social democratic mould have been forthcoming, even while governments have espoused the ascendancy of the market. Nevertheless, neoliberal policy moves have been most starkly felt in worsening income inequalities – where the evidence is unambiguous of a direct threat to the Australian egalitarian ethos.

“Words with Friends”: Socially Networked Reading on Goodreads

PMLA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 238-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Planned Obsolescence ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
Textual Production ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Reading isn't what it was. As we enter the “late age of print,” E-Books are still less common than “P-Books” (printed books), but the balance is quickly changing, especially in the world of academic publishing (Striphas xii). While many lament the loss of the p-book's materiality, texts have become more lively as a result of digitization: textual-production platforms like blogging let writers and readers interact with each other and create intimate social relationships. As Kathleen Fitzpatrick found while writing her book Planned Obsolescence using CommentPress, an online platform that enables readers' commenting, writing can become a more social and creative process when done in dialogue with readers. This turn to the social in writing parallels a turn to the social in media generally. Thus, it makes sense to evaluate not how far our devices are taking us from paper—the answer is already pretty far—but rather how digital media are creating new social valences of reading.

scholarly journals Correction to: Contesting the Neoliberal Discourse of the World Class University: ‘Digital Socialism’, Openness and Academic Publishing

2021 ◽  
pp. C3-C3
Author(s):  
Michael A. Peters ◽  
Tina Besley
Keyword(s):  
Academic Publishing ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class

The chapter was inadvertently published with one of the authors’ name incorrectly spelled as “Hazelhorn” instead Hazelkorn in the chapter citation and reference.

scholarly journals Strategies of Brazilian Elite Domination

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Solis-Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Gini Coefficient ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Material Base ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Relative Dominance ◽  
Basic Inequality ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

In order to maintain their dominant socio-economic and political positions, Brazilian elites developed and employed a range of strategies in order to maintain the basic inequality regime established during the colonial period. Still among the most unequal countries in the world by Gini Coefficient, this paper seeks to show how Brazilian elites maintained their position of relative dominance through superstructural and material transformations in Brazilian society in terms of their collectively finding solutions to four problems: the Ideology of Creole Revolution, Unmanaged Elite Competition, Race Relations, and Democracy. As the latter three remain serious problems for Brazilian elites, the way previous elites navigated these threats to their position and maintained the basic nature of the inequality regime through transformations in the material base and superstructure provide insights into how Bolsonaro and contemporary conservative elites may attempt to manage the social democratic forces of the PT.

Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim O’Reilly ◽  
Adolfo Plasencia
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Structure Of Scientific Revolutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Web

In this dialogue, Tim O’Reilly begins by explaining why change is natural and good and how we have to be open to the future. Later he discusses how the logic that makes things work is related to science and not to a particular set of beliefs; to understanding what is efficient and why within this logic there is a hierarchy that is made up of a set of values. He goes on to explain how the Web 2.0 applications he formulated— for example, the social networks—use network effects by harnessing collective intelligence in such a way that the more people there are who use them, the better they become. After this, he describes how his analysis of the paradigm shift in open code is equivalent to that expressed by Thomas Kuhn in his work “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”. Later on, O’Reilly reflects on the different possible kinds of Internet of the future before moving on to explain why the most innovative people go beyond the limits of “canonical knowledge” in their daily practice, and the way in which their artistic transgressions or discoveries make them part of the new canon.

scholarly journals Strategies of Brazilian Elite Domination

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Solis-Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Gini Coefficient ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Material Base ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Relative Dominance ◽  
Basic Inequality ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

In order to maintain their dominant socio-economic and political positions, Brazilian elites developed and employed a range of strategies in order to maintain the basic inequality regime established during the colonial period. Still among the most unequal countries in the world by Gini Coefficient, this paper seeks to show how Brazilian elites maintained their position of relative dominance through superstructural and material transformations in Brazilian society in terms of their collectively finding solutions to four problems: the Ideology of Creole Revolution, Unmanaged Elite Competition, Race Relations, and Democracy. As the latter three remain serious problems for Brazilian elites, the way previous elites navigated these threats to their position and maintained the basic nature of the inequality regime through transformations in the material base and superstructure provide insights into how Bolsonaro and contemporary conservative elites may attempt to manage the social democratic forces of the PT.

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