TY - BOOK AU - Tomaselli,Keyan G. AU - Chapman,Michael TI - Contemporary Campus Life: Transformation, Manic Managerialism, and Academentia SN - 9781928246442 PY - 2021///] CY - Boulder : PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers, KW - EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects KW - bisacsh KW - South Africa, higher education, cultural studies N1 - Frontmatter --; About the author --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Foreword --; Acronyms --; 1 Hacking through Academentia --; 2 Cash Cows, E-cow-nomics and Branding --; 3 The Backlog Syndrome --; 4 Of Science and Souls --; 5 Of Bulls and Bears --; 6 Publication, Rankings and Abacus Management --; 7 Writing Africa and Identity: Shifting (Our)selves --; 8 Of Colonialism and Capture --; 9 Cartoons, Blackface and Social Critique --; 10 Culture Can Kill --; 11 The Academentia Sunrise --; References --; Index; restricted access N2 - Keyan Tomaselli’s accessible critique of market-driven neoliberalism is offered as a metaphor to analyze the excesses, contradictions, and obstructions in contemporary university governance. With incisive satirical humor, Tomaselli delves into the quirks of education administrative systems to show how manic management negatively affects teaching, research, science, and reasoning—and must be brought into check to preserve the very nature of the academy UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781928246442 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781928246442 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781928246442/original ER -