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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author NALBANTOGLU, Hasan Ünal
Title Homo Academicus in university inc. : the Ersatz Tuppie academic / Hasan Ünal Nalbantoglu
Publication year 2017
Source/Footnote In: Universities in the neoliberal era : academic cultures and critical perspectives / Hakan Ergül ; Simten Cosar (Hrsg.). - London : Palgrave Mavmillian, 2017. - S. 217 - 271
Inventory number 45757
Keywords Ausland : Türkei : Studenten, Studium, Lehre
Abstract In this chapter, the author draws a sociological portrait of a new academic type, the ‘yuppie academic’ or professor-entrepreneur, first observed in the advanced capitalist societies before being successfully ‘imported’ into Turkish academia. With a constant dialogue between philosophy, sociology, social theory and literature, and with a particular emphasis on the neoliberalization of academic everyday life in Turkey, the author analyzes current tensions and disjunctions between today’s university, academic ethos and academic morality. The aim is to interrogate the intersection between the questions of ‘what is happening to academics’ and ‘what is happening to academic ethos and academic morality’ under these new conditions, in which universities are being turned into commercial enterprises. This text is an extended and revised version of a manuscript in Turkish, entitled ‘The Problem of “Ethos” and “Morality” beyond Modern Achitecture,’ prepared for The Second Symposium on Architecture and Philosophy: Ethics-Aesthetics, October 31–November 1, 2002. The first revised version, entitled ‘Who [What] Is the Ersatz Yuppie Academic?’ was presented on April 30, 2003 as part of a conference series of the Turkish Social Sciences Association. I would like to thank the participants for their constructive contributions. This article was previously published in the journal Toplum ve Bilim/Science & Society [title in Turkish: Üniversite A.S.de bir homo academicus: ‘ersatz’ yuppie akademisyen], 97, pp. 7–42. We would like to thank the journal’s editors for granting us the permission to publish the English version of the article in this volume. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)
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