List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface

Introduction: Privatizing the Public University: Key Trends, Countertrends and Alternatives
Cris Shore and Susan Wright

PART I: REDEFINING THE MISSION AND MEANING OF THE UNIVERSITY

Chapter 1. Universities in Britain and the Spirit of '45
John Morgan

Chapter 2. Managing the Third Mission: Reform or Reinvention of the Public University?
Nick Lewis and Cris Shore

Chapter 3. Universities in the Competition State: Lessons from Denmark
Susan Wright and Jakob Williams Ørberg

Chapter 4. Leadership in Higher Education: A Critical Feminist Perspective on Global Restructuring
Jill Blackmore

PART II: PERFORMING THE NEW UNIVERSITY - NEW PRIORITIES, NEW SUBJECTS

Chapter 5. Science/ Industry Collaboration: Bugs, Project Barons and Managing Symbiosis
Birgitte Gorm Hansen

Chapter 6. On Delivering the Consumer-Citizen: New Pedagogies and Their Affective Economies
Barbara M. Grant

Chapter 7. Tuning Up and Tuning In: How the European Bologna Process Is Influencing Students' Time of Study
Gritt B. Nielsen and Laura Louise Sarauw

PART III: MANAGING THE RISK UNIVERSITY - RESEARCH, RANKING AND REPUTATION

Chapter 8. The Causes, Mechanisms and Consequences of Reputational Risk Management of Universities and the Higher
Education Sector
Roger Dale

Chapter 9. The Rise and Rise of the Performance-Based Research Fund?
Bruce Curtis

Chapter 10. Evaluating Academic Research: Ambivalence, Anxiety and Audit in the Risk University
Lisa Lucas

Chapter 11. The Ethics of University Ethics Committees: Risk Management and the Research Imagination
Tamara Kohn and Cris Shore

PART IV: REVIVING THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY - ALTERNATIVE VISIONS

Chapter 12. Who Will Win the Global Hunger Games? The Emerging Significance of Research Universities in the International Relations of States
Christopher Tremewan

Chapter 13. Resistance in the Neoliberal University
Sandra Grey

Chapter 14. The University as a Place of Possibilities: Scholarship as Dissensus
Sean Sturm and Stephen Turner

Chapter 15. Crisis, Critique and the Contemporary University: Reinventing the Future
Susan L. Robertson

Index

Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them 'entrepreneurial', 'efficient' and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue 'excellence' and 'innovation', many universities are struggling to maintain their traditional mission to be inclusive, improve social mobility and equality and act as the 'critic and conscience' of society. Drawing on a multi-disciplinary research project, University Reform, Globalisation and Europeanisation (URGE), this collection analyses the new landscapes of public universities emerging across Europe and the Asia-Pacific, and the different ways that academics are engaging with them.

Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland. He is founding editor of the journal Anthropology in Action, inaugural Director of Auckland University's Europe Institute and, with Susan Wright, is editor of the Stanford University Press book series, Anthropology of Policy. His recent books include Up Close and Personal: On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge, (with Susanna Trnka, 2013, Berghahn).