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Jeffrey r. Di Leo Academe in Chains Habitus, Reform, and the Neoliberal University University reform is slow—even when times are bad. In spite of the downwa-rd cor porate spiral taken by most universities over the past tw fi v en e y ty- ears, efforts to release the university from its neoliberal chains have been widely regarded as inef- fective. The cost of education continues to rise as does the amount of debt incurred by students; academic freedom is now more than ever subject to the interests of capital while the curriculum faces increasing degrees of vocational recalibration and political scrutiny; and department closures, unreasonable job expectations, and job insecurity all may be linked back to a destructive form of managerialism that continues to hold sway over academe 1 Wha . t then, may we ask, is impeding university reform? What is restricting resistance to these unwanted and unpleasant aspects of academe? The answer, in short, is habitu. S s pecifically, academic habitus. Habitus , in its most general sense, refers to the “system of shared social dispo- sitions and cognitive structures which generates perceptions, appreciations, and actions” (Bourdieu, Homo Academicu 279n2). s This shared system of social dispo-
The Comparatist – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Nov 11, 2016
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