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"Academic Capitalism" published on by Oxford University Press.

Social scientists have been seeking conceptual terminology that captures how and why universities are engaging in direct and indirect market activity. Sociologist Steve G. Hoffman argues that, in the United States, several key trends have developed from the late 1970s to the present period that warrant the term "academic capitalism."

In this paper, we explore the general societal and political tendency today to encode and digitalise work, production and lived life to as great an extent as possible. We study this by focusing on work at universities where women tend to take care of most of the collective, relational and responsive duties related to knowledge production, education and the working community. We ask, what happens to gender, work and knowledge in the process where academic capitalism decodes the parameters by which the latter three notions are assessed, and evaluated

Higher education policy in Finland has shifted toward academic capitalism as an extension to new demands for competitiveness placed on higher education institutions. The Finnish Ministry of Education has been involved for some time in reforming the Finnish higher education system with the aim of increasing outputs in research innovations and laying the groundwork for academic capitalism. In other words, political guidance has sought to reform research as a qualitative change, rather than commit to increasing investment. Looking at the statistical indicators of Finnish research and development, particularly in the context of Finnish universities, shows how in practice Finland has introduced ideas of academic capitalism locally by moving away from basic funding into a more competition-driven funding system. Competitive logics are filtered down from the level of national higher education policy to university level through policy tools, such as performance-based funding. Furthermore, the Finnish system shows a relatively high susceptibility to political control, which can be viewed as a challenge to substantive academic autonomy.

This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic capitalism are superimposing themselves on the competition of scientists for progress of knowledge and recognition by the scientific community. The result is a sharpening institutional stratification of the field. This stratification is produced and continuously reproduced by the intensified struggle for funds with the shrinking of block grants and the growing significance of competitive funding, as well as the increasing i

Academic capitalism has become one of the most influential research lines related to higher education. However, its manifestations in developing countries need to be better understood. Changes are taking place in Brazil that can be attributed to a move toward academic capitalism, and concepts provided by the theory of academic capitalism offer a fertile framework for exploring them. Analysis of official documents, regulations, and the actions of a network of participants reveals the mechanisms that reconfigure the boundaries between the public and the private to establish an academic capitalism knowledge/learning regime. Academic capitalism in Brazil took its first steps after the 1968 reform and was consolidated in the 1990s and instrumentalized in the 2000s, and, judging from the associations between the current government and the business sector, it threatens to take an even more aggressive form in the coming years.O capitalismo acadêmico tem se configurado em uma das linhas de pesquisa mais influentes no campo da educação superior. Há, porém, que melhor se entender suas manifestações em países em desenvolvimento. Estão em curso no Brasil mudanças que podem ser atribuídas a um contexto voltado para um capitalismo acadêmico, e os conceitos oferecidos por ela fornecem um fértil framework para explorar tais mudanças. A análise de documentos oficiais, artefatos legais e da atuação de uma rede de atores, são explorados os mecanismos que reconfiguram as fronteiras entre o público e o privado, colocando em movimento um academic capitalism knowledge/learning regime. No Brasil, o capitalismo acadêmico dá seus primeiros passos após a reforma de 1968; ascende e ganha contornos mais intensos a partir da década de 80; consolida-se a partir da década de 90; instrumentaliza-se nos anos 2000 e, com base nas associações entre o atual governo e o setor empresarial, ameaça assumir uma forma ainda mais agressiva nos próximos anos.

In the current geopolitical situation, Russian scientists may face difficulties in publishing the results of their research in foreign journals indexed in leading scientometric databases. Until recently, the productivity of scientific activity of Russian universities was mainly assessed by the number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science, which we consider in the context of the introduction of "academic capitalism". In particular, in the updated version of the state program "Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation", one of the targets assumes that Russia will take the 5th place in the world by 2030 in terms of the proportion of articles indexed in international databases. We evaluate the realism of achieving this indicator relative to the number of articles indexed in Scopus. The necessity to change the approach to the assessment of the productivity of scientific activity using the concept of "academic socialism" is substantiated. In the framework of this concept, it is proposed to develop a state program for expanding the number of Russian journals indexed in the world scientometric databases with a guarantee of financial support for the implementation of the Diamond Open Access model — no fee for publication or processing of the article and fully open access to it.

Over the last four decades, the joint collapse of higher education's socio-political mediating role along with the state's default financial one has consolidated what has come to be known as 'academic capitalism', defined not only as the yoking of higher education to the shifting needs of state and supra-state economies, but also as the building and trading of academic capital, with corresponding modes of administration and collaboration. However, while this is more-or-less global phenomenon, there is relatively little explicit consideration of the 'capital' component of academic capitalism. This entry seeks to partly fill that gap, by reviewing the consensus characteristics of academic capitalism with a focus on concrete and especially monetary conceptualisations of 'capital'. It also reviews paradigmatic explanations of Academic Capitalism's evolution: as the production of a source of human and political capital, as a means of managing this, and in its neoliberal re-conceptualisation as the dealing in tradeable academic-related commodities. It shows that, despite prevailing characterisations of academic capitalism as something new and dependant on neoliberalism, there have always been forms of academic capitalism; its current characteristics are part of a continuum whose backbone is the interface between its relationship with the state and its critically transformative function. Finally, the entry raises questions about the nature of academic capitalism and how far we can generalise about this, reviewing in particular ideas about how the consolidation of 'academic capitalism' has also rendered the phenomenon both practically and analytically fragile.

This article investigates the Financial Market Leagues (LMF) as interstitial organizations through the lens of the Theory of Academic Capitalism. A case study was conducted based on a LMF in a Brazilian public university (LMF-Unab). Data collection involved the LMF's National Council, business press, institutional pages of the LMFs and the internships coordination of the university studied. Moreover, 82 questionnaires were applied to members of 29 LMFs and the founders of the LMF-Unab were interviewed. The results revealed that 70.1% of respondents are between 20-23 years old; 81% attended private high school; 48% attend Engineering courses. LMFs operate within universities legitimizing narratives and metrics typical of a financialization process, which is illustrated by iconic figures of the discourse of meritocracy and the aggressive culture of results, such as Jorge Paulo Lemann, among other respondents' sources of inspiration. This paper addresses the literature gap regarding the understanding of student organizations as actors of academic capitalism, often portrayed as passive agents in this process, but who are actually active and benefit from it.