Includes bibliographical references and index.

Higher education in the era of globalization and neoliberalism / Joyce E. Canaan and Wesley Shumar -- Managing knowledge: intellectual property, instructional design and the manufacturing of higher education / Jonathan T. Church -- Public good or private value: a critique of the commodification of knowledge in higher education: a Canadian perspective / Magda Lewis -- Space, place and the American university / Wesley Shumar -- Entrenching international inequality: the impact of the global commodification of higher education on developing countries / Rajani Naidoo -- Higher education reform in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: the politics of neoliberal agendas in theory and practice / Sarah Amsler -- The variety of student experience: investigating the complex dynamics of undergraduate learning in Russell and non-Russell universities in England / Patrick Ainley and Mark Weyers -- Protocols and performances: scientific discourse in the molecular biology laboratory / Carol B. Brandt -- Indigenous epistemologies and the neoliberal view of higher education / Bryan Mckinley Jones Brayboy, Angelina E. Castagno, and Emma Maughan -- No burden to carry: social constructions of class and self-improvement in Cape Breton / Jane Mceldowney Jensen -- Camaraderie, distraction and discouragement: academics and gendered patterns of peer interactions among college students / Laura M. Montgomery -- Communication and emotion in gendered organization: the hidden transcripts of power in higher education / Breda Luthar and Zdenka Sadl -- A funny thing happened on the way to the (European social) forum: or how new forms of accountability are transforming academics' identities and possible responses / Joyce E. Canaan -- Afterword: university challenge: neoliberal abstraction and being more concrete / Richard Johnson