The Retreat from the Critical: Social Science Research in the Corporatised University

Thornton, Margaret

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1314548

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The Retreat from the Critical: Social Science Research in the Corporatised University

Margaret Thornton

Australian National University - ANU College of Law

December 10, 2008

Australian Universities Review, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp 5-10, 2008
ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 08-35

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This paper considers how the contemporary environment is inducing a less critical approach towards research and impacting on academic freedom. It argues that it is not only the interventionist acts of Ministers and terror censorship that academics need to worry about, for the need to satisfy funding bodies is more insidiously exercising a depoliticising effect on research.

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Keywords: Research, Social Sciences, University, Corporatisation

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Date posted: December 12, 2008 ; Last revised: October 11, 2009

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Thornton, Margaret, The Retreat from the Critical: Social Science Research in the Corporatised University (December 10, 2008). Australian Universities Review, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp 5-10, 2008; ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 08-35. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1314548 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1314548

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