The Role of Competitive Project-Based Funding in the Commodification of Academic Research
A Marxist Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2371096 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luis Arboledas-Lérida (0000-0003-2392-5885, Universidad de Sevilla, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 845-862 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/08969205231209679 |
| OpenAlex | W4388303867 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 36 |
The current growth of competitive project-based funding (CPBF) as a funding instrument for academic science reveals that public funding plays a critical role in the spreading of the capitalist relations of production in academia. However, this issue has not been properly addressed in the extant literature. This paper examines CPBF in the light of the determinations of capitalist relations of production captured by the Marxist notion of 'formal subsumption of labour under capital'. It will then show that CPBF mediates commodity-based productive relations between funding agencies and academic institutions, and that the latter are, in turn, premised on the separation of academic labour from the objective conditions of knowledge production. It will be also demonstrated how CPBF reproduces and deepens that split, leading from the partial to the complete formal subsumption of academic labour under capital. Our analysis challenges the assumption that increased public funding will put to a halt the commodification of academia and academic research
Commodification · Commodity · Economics · Extant taxon · Knowledge production · Market economy · Marxist philosophy · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Political Economy and Marxism
The commodification of academic research and its social legitimation
‘It's not a permanent thing’
Peer Review and Natural-Like Social Relations of Production in Academia
Moving Beyond Adjunctification in Portugal’s Universities
The communication of science within the framework of European Union-funded research projects
The ‘unavoidable antagonism’ in the ‘academic labour process’
From formal subsumption under capital to primitive accumulation of capital
Academic Capitalism
Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
Transatlantic moves to the market
Performance-based university research funding systems
The neoliberal turn in Higher Education
The Matthew effect in science funding
The Commodification of Knowledge and Information
What conceptions of science communication are espoused by science research funding bodies
Capital in Higher Education
The oracles of science
Cognitive Capitalism' and the Rat-Race
Introduction
The impossibility of capitalist markets in higher education
The Drawbacks of Project Funding for Epistemic Innovation
Dying Bees and the Social Production of Ignorance
Value production and struggle in the classroom
The direct subordination of universities to the accumulation of capital
Stop evaluating science
Different Meanings of 'Knowledge as Commodity' in the Context of Higher Education
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |