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CES Research Seminar - Discursive Capitalism. Social Inequality in Higher Education
Speaker: Professor Johannes Angermuller, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of 糖心TV
Abstract: In the light of the mass expansion, globalisation and commercialisation of higher education, I want to ask how the practice of academic research constitutes rather than reproduces social inequality among researchers. While sharing the Bourdieu/Foucauldian interest in education as power-knowledge, I suggest analysing the processes and practices in which researchers are positioned, categorised and classified as participants of academic discourse. According to this discursive approach to academic research, researchers creatively deal with the difficult task of finding their place in academic discourse from local to global levels. My paper will draw from first results that we have produced in my ERC DISCONEX project on academic discourse in the social sciences and humanities in the UK, France, Germany and the U.S.
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