Globalism, then and now: The rise of international neoliberalism and the academic novel
Globalism, then and now: The rise of international neoliberalism and the academic novel
Author(s): Merritt MoseleySubject(s): Political economy, History of Education, Social Theory, Sociology of Education, British Literature, American Literature
Published by: SAV - Slovenská akadémia vied - Ústav svetovej literatúry
Keywords: Neoliberalism; Managerialism; Privatization; Academic novel; Faculty status
Summary/Abstract: This article uses a longitudinal comparison to trace the development in higher education from an era of the “global campus” to a more fraught and harsher academic climate and relates it to the rise, beginning in the 1970s, of neoliberalism as a governing philosophy in the West. Examples from mostly Anglophone novels illustrate this change into a worldwide neoliberalism that is the new globalism and its effects in academia; the presence of neoliberalism in societies beyond the US and UK leads to speculation on its likely appearance in future academic novels.
Journal: World Literature Studies
- Issue Year: 17/2025
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 3-15
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English
