The Corporatization and Environmental Sustainability of Australian Universities

A Critical Perspective
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-56810-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Analysing the juxtaposition of two trends in universities – corporatisation and environmental sustainability – this book explores how they are more contradictory than compatible.

Hans A Baer argues that this contradiction is unavoidable because of the capitalist parameters in which they operate, including a commitment to on-going economic growth which contributes to social inequality, environmental degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions. Drawing on archival sources and Baer’s experiences in university sustainability forums, the book exposes how what universities claim to do in relation to environmental sustainability compares with their research, educational, operational and institutional activities.

Presenting a critique of and a radical alternative to the status quo, this book is suitable for academics and students of anthropology, environmental studies and higher education.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baer, Hans

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  1. Capitalism, the Socio-Ecological Crisis, and Universities as Contradictory Spaces  2. The Sustainability Discourse in Corporate Universities Around the World  3. The Corporatisation of Australian Universities  4. Sustainability Policies, Practices, and Programs in Australian Universities  5. Sustainability Policies, Practices, and Programs at the University of Melbourne  6. Ecological Modernisation as a Hegemonic Academic Discourse in Grappling with Sustainability and Climate Change  7.  How Environmentally Sustainable is the Internationalisation of Australian Higher Education?  8.Toward a Socially Just and Environmentally Sustainable University

Über Autor(innen)

Hans A Baer is an anthropologist affiliated with the University of Melbourne. His areas of research have included Mormonism, African American religion, socio-political life in East Germany, critical health anthropology, complementary medicine in the US, UK and Australia, higher education, climate change and sustainability, and eco-socialism.