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KEYWORDS: COMMODIFICATION, POSTMODERN, NEW RIGHT, NEOLIBERALISM, HIGHER EDUCATION, CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES, STUDENT RIGHTS, FOUCAULT The academy, like many public and private institutions before it, has been colonised by the discourses of consumerism, efficiency, and market discipline. By now it is a…

KEYWORDS: TRANSNATIONAL; FORDISM; LEAN PRODUCTION; MEXICO This paper examines two trends in the restructuring of North American automobile production during the last 20 years: the export of productive activities or globalization and the return of productive activities to core regions…

Crystal Hepburn Ronald Hinch Department of Sociology and Anthropology The University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario Canadam N1G 2W1 [Direct all correspondence to Ronald Hinch [email protected] Phone: 519-824-4120 ex. 2195 fax: 519-837-5961] ABSTRACT This paper examines issues related to the definition…

James Curry Department of Social Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico [email protected] © 1997 Electronic Journal of Sociology Document hits Abstract It is now almost taken for granted that we are living in an economic…

Mike Sosteric Department of Sociology University of Alberta Edmonton, AB CANADA © 1996 Electronic Journal of Sociology [email protected] Document hits In recent years, scholarly communication has virtually exploded into the on-line electronic world. This has brought a number of demonstrable…

KEYWORDS: EUROPEAN IDENTITY; CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP This essay compares the concept of cultural citizenship, based on an anthropological study of Latino communities in the United States, with the proposal of European identity made by the European Union Administration during the past…

Mike Sosteric Department of Sociology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada © 1996 Electronic Journal of Sociology [email protected] Document hits ABSTRACT This article examines the political economy of scholarly publication. After briefly outlining the contours of the current crises in…

– Abstract     – Illusions of Excellence…     – Introduction     – Nature of the Study     – Commodification in the University     – Public Relations, Public Awareness…     – Not New but Different     – The Grand Narrative     – What About Teaching?     – Quandaries of Commodification…

Dr David Beckett Dept of Vocational Education and Training The University of Melbourne [email protected] Written on the Body? Writing off the Body One of the great ironies in education at the moment is that increasing attention is being given to…

KEYWORDS: LYOTARD, COMMODIFICATION, POSTMODERN, NEW RIGHT, NEOLIBERALISM, HIGHER EDUCATION Nearly two decades have passed since Jean Francois Lyotard first published The postmodern condition. Following the release of an English translation of the text in 1984, The postmodern condition has been…