The Double Crisis of the University and the Global Economy
The zero issue of the new transnational
journal edu-factory critically interrogates the proposition that the
present is a time of crisis. What are the connections between the
global economic downturn and the ongoing transformations of the
university? In mainstream analysis, the current economic situation is
referred to as a global financial crisis, as if a distinction could be
drawn between finance and the productive economy. The notion of crisis
has also been long deployed to describe the changes to higher education
under neoliberal conditions that seem to be mutating with the present
economic instability. What are the mutual implications of these two
senses of crisis? Does it make sense to speak of a double crisis of the
university and the global economy? Is it possible to isolate the current
predicament as pertaining only to economics as if it doesn’t extend
into other spheres of human activity? How can we question the current
use of the category of crisis, rethinking it to open spaces and times
for new institutional forms and new kinds of social relations?
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