Publications

There is a growing body of literature and events critiquing the spread of ‘audit cultures’[1] in Western research institutions. In brief, these audit cultures imply the assignment of numerical values to the ...

Événements.« Curating the European Universities. European Exposition and Public Debate », 10 et 11 février 2011, Université Catholique de Louvain.Ce colloque est organisé par le Laboratory for Education and Society de l’Université ...

It’s been a long time since academic discussions about research and teaching were part of the board meetings of the department of Anthropology and Sociology of the University of Amsterdam. Most of ...

‘Now, of course, we live in Thatcher’s psyche if not her anus, in the world she made, of competition, consumerism, celebrity and guilt’s bastard son, charity: bingeing and debt.’Hanif Kureishi (2008: 271)The ...

The idea of audit, originated from financial regulation, has been introduced into public sectors to rank and assess professional performance against bureaucratic benchmarks and economic targets in response to organizational failure either ...

To all appearances higher education in both the Eu and the Us has turned into a more fashionable topic for politicians and journalists than it was ten years ago. Since rumour has ...

Institutionalized education in most part of the human society seems intrinsically hierarchical. One is supposed to progress from a ‘lower’ level of learning to the ‘higher’; ‘average’ kids study in mediocre schools, ...

Aux yeux des hommes politiques et des journalistes, l’enseignement supérieur, en Europe comme aux États-Unis, est, semble-t-il, un sujet beaucoup plus porteur qu’il ne l’était il y a dix ans. Puisque, selon ...

In 1999, China’s State Council issued a ‘Decision Concerning the Deepening of Education Reform and the All-Out Promotion of Quality Education.’ This document introduced the term ‘education industry’ (教育产业) along with two ...

‘The whole business of peer-reviewed journals has no effect on the external world and is just a Rube Goldberg machine designed to get people tenure.’James C. Scott (2007: 385)‘Accountability has turned to ...

The situation.The cycle of knowledge production depends on a symbiotic relationship among academics, publishers, distributors, librarians, and users who build on and challenge present and past knowledge to forge new knowledge. As ...

Si le travail est un objet familier des sciences sociales, c’est que, en vertu de ses caractéristiques intrinsèques, il peut fournir à la sociologie l’occasion d’une mise à l’épreuve probante de ses ...

La sensibilité esthétique repose sur l’expérience de la perception et caractérise notre rapport à l’art et, plus largement, au monde. L’ouvrage présenté ici offre une réflexion passionnante sur les rapports entre esthétique, ...

Depuis les années 2000 en France, un nouveau type d’environnement résidentiel sécurisé (et souvent fermé mais pas de façon systématique) se développe, incarné par les multiples figures du village senior. Ce phénomène ...

On le sait bien, talking about music is like dancing about architecture. Mais talking about architecture en est-il pour autant plus simple ? C’est à cette réflexion que nous invite l’Institut d’Architecture ...