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Intellectual as Hustler: Researching against the grain of the market
Author(s) -
Smyth John,
Hattam Robert
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/01411920050000926
Subject(s) - metaphor , frame (networking) , sociology , period (music) , commodity , space (punctuation) , higher education , political science , aesthetics , public relations , media studies , law , economics , engineering , art , market economy , telecommunications , philosophy , linguistics
In many respects, universities around the world are living through a period of quite extraordinary turmoil as their role and purposes are under serious challenge. In this paper we explore the latest attempt in Australia to push universities even further in the direction of becoming marketised, and we examine what this means in terms of the loss of public space for academics as public intellectuals. In this, we draw some fragments from our own autobiographical experiences in trying to assert what a ‘counter public’ might look like around university research. We find the notion of ‘hustler’ to be a sufficiently playful metaphor around which to begin to frame what happens to knowledge as it is increasingly treated as another commodity.