Neoliberalism, Law and Culture: A Cultural Studies Intervention After ‘The Juridical Turn’

Aksikas, Jaafar; Andrews, Sean Johnson

doi:10.1080/09502386.2014.886479

Cited by 7 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 25 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Here, the products of academic labour are appropriated by commercial publishing houses and sold back to the university libraries at hefty subscription fees. These tend to operate at exceptionally good profit margins, and as Sean Johnson Andrews and Jaafar Aksikas have shown in an article in Cultural Studies, they are often run by large transnational companies that might in some cases own academic publishing companies (such as Taylor & Francis which published Cultural Studies) alongside other businesses, including military subcontractors (Aksikas & Johnson 2014). This commercial publishing industry, spearheaded by large corporations like Elsevier and Taylor & Francis, also emerged with the expansion and internationalisation of academia partly driven by the mobilisation of research during the Cold War.…”

Section: Journal Of Current Cultural Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bellamy's Rage and Beer's Conscience: Towards a Pirate Methodology

2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Over the last decade piracy has emerged as a growing field of research covering a wide range of different phenomena, from fashion counterfeits and media piracy, through to 17 th century buccaneers and present-day pirates off the coast of Somalia. In many cases piracy can be a metaphor or an analytical perspective to understand conflicts and social change. This article relates this fascination with piracy as a practice and a metaphor to academia and asks what a pirate methodology of knowledge production could be: how, in other words, researchers and educators can be understood as 'pirates' to the corporate university. Drawing on the history of maritime piracy as well as on a discussion on contemporary pirate libraries that disrupt proprietary publishing, the article explores the possibility of a pirate methodology as a way of acting as a researcher and relating to existing norms of knowledge production. The methodology of piratical scholarship involves exploiting the grey zones and loopholes of contemporary academia. It is a tactical intervention that exploits short term opportunities that arise in the machinery of academia to the strategic end of turning a limiting structure into an enabling field of opportunities. We hope that such a concept of pirate methodologies may help us reflect on how sustainable and constructive approaches to knowledge production emerge in the context of a critique of the corporate university.

show abstract

Section: Journal Of Current Cultural Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%