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Neoliberalising the Fordist University: A Tale of Two Campuses in Frankfurt a. M., Germany
Author(s) -
Belina Bernd,
Petzold Tino,
Schardt Jürgen,
Schipper Sebastian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01054.x
Subject(s) - fordism , german , neoliberalism (international relations) , higher education , oppression , state (computer science) , sociology , political science , presidential system , university education , economic history , media studies , public administration , political economy , law , history , economy , economics , archaeology , algorithm , politics , computer science
In 2009, the central building of the new IG Farben Campus of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (JWGU), Frankfurt, Germany was occupied by students protesting against the neoliberalisation of higher education. While similar occupations at the old Bockenheim Campus were usually tolerated, if not welcomed, by the university management, this time 176 students and members of staff were forcefully evicted after only 3 days, when the university's presidential board called in the police. To better understand this way of ending such protest, a level of oppression almost unheard of at a German university in the last 20 years, we reconstruct the way in which JWGU, as part of the state apparatus university, has produced the two campuses as particular places that are bound up in and expressions of the national and local condensations of forces of Fordism and neoliberalism respectively.