Science Communication, Competitive Project-Based Funding and the Formal Subsumption of Academic Labor Under Capital

Arboledas-Lérida, Luis

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-37252-0_11

The Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education 2023

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37252-0_11

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Science Communication, Competitive Project-Based Funding and the Formal Subsumption of Academic Labor Under Capital

Luis Arboledas-Lérida

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The Role of Competitive Project-Based Funding in the Commodification of Academic Research: A Marxist Analysis

Arboledas-Lérida

2023

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The current growth of competitive project-based funding (CPBF) as a funding instrument for academic science reveals that public funding plays a critical role in the spreading of the capitalist relations of production in academia. However, this issue has not been properly addressed in the extant literature. This paper examines CPBF in the light of the determinations of capitalist relations of production captured by the Marxist notion of ‘formal subsumption of labour under capital’. It will then show that CPBF mediates commodity-based productive relations between funding agencies and academic institutions, and that the latter are, in turn, premised on the separation of academic labour from the objective conditions of knowledge production. It will be also demonstrated how CPBF reproduces and deepens that split, leading from the partial to the complete formal subsumption of academic labour under capital. Our analysis challenges the assumption that increased public funding will put to a halt the commodification of academia and academic research.

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The Role of Competitive Project-Based Funding in the Commodification of Academic Research: A Marxist Analysis

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2023

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Science Communication, Competitive Project-Based Funding and the Formal Subsumption of Academic Labor Under Capital

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The Role of Competitive Project-Based Funding in the Commodification of Academic Research: A Marxist Analysis

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