Re-learning hope
On alienation, theory and the 'death' of universities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3279178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Gibbs (0000-0002-5776-2263), ROBERT GIBB (University of Glasgow) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 914-929 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00380261241258617 |
| OpenAlex | W4403217062 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
Informed by Irving Horowitz's view of the Festschrift, this article adopts both a retrospective and a prospective approach to the work of the sociologist Bridget Fowler. On the one hand, it assesses some of the key characteristics and contributions of her three single-authored books: The Alienated Reader: Women and Popular Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century (1991), Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory (1997) and The Obituary as Collective Memory (2007). On the other, it takes cues from these books to develop a more forward-looking type of reflection that connects some recent sociological and anthropological research on 'the neoliberal university' to writing about hope and utopia. The article emphasises that Fowler is attentive not only to processes of social reproduction but also to what John Holloway terms 'cracks in the texture of domination', that is, to examples of freedom, resistance and the imagination of alternatives in popular culture and elsewhere. At the same time, it shows how thinking about utopia and hope can contribute to debates about 'the alienated academic' and the 'death' of universities. The article concludes that Fowler's sociology is, alongside its many other qualities, a valuable contribution to 're-learning hope', arguably one of the most important challenges facing us today
Alienation · Epistemology · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
Anthropology and/as Education
The Slow Professor
Dark Academia
Beyond Education
The Good University. What Universities actually do and why it's time for radical change
Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory
The Alienated Academic
Rank Hypocrises
Introduction to the Special Issue
Présentation
Speaking of Universities
Putting the university to work
The Forgotten Lives of Sociology of Death
The Obituary as Collective Memory
Quantified Scholar - How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences
Sociologists Never Die
Back to the Future
Social Theory for Alternative Societies
The Politics of Anthropology
Audit Culture and Anthropology
Anthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial class
Autoanalysis, with particular reflections on sociology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |