“…Although the effect can be found in most other higher education systems touched by neoliberalization, the development is particularly acute in that state. The response has been an explosion of critical research and writing that explicitly and unambiguously addresses this development (Abbinnett, 2019; Bacevic, 2019; Boden and Epstein, 2011; Burrows, 2012; Deem and Brehony, 2005; Di Muccio, 2019; Gewirtz and Ball, 2000; Hall, 2019; Holmwood and Servós, 2019; Jameson, 2010; Lynch, 2010; Morrish, 2019; Szadkowski and Krzeski, 2019; Taylor, 2003). Global academic rankings are treated rightly in this literature as the coordinating technology of audit, upon, through, and towards which the new managerial-capitalist class of academia reproduces its spreading hegemony and domination of the academic landscape.…”