An academic challenge to the entrepreneurial university
The spatial power of the 'Slow Swimming Club
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4098739 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David R Jones (0000-0001-8028-7571, Bournemouth University, corresponding author), Dean Patton (0000-0001-7892-6661, Bournemouth University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 375-389 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2018.1534093 |
| OpenAlex | W2898227705 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 60 |
The entrepreneurial university is a vague notion that has evolved by applying the concepts of enterprise and entrepreneurship to a university context. The blurring of enterprise with entrepreneurship has allowed the entrepreneurial university to be increasingly underpinned by a managerialist discourse, typified by functionalisation and marketisation; culminating in academic disempowerment, dissatisfaction and subsequent disengagement. In response to such dissatisfaction, this paper reflects on a playful space, called the Slow Swimming Club (SSC), produced by several academics. The research takes a collective auto-ethnographic approach and employs Foucault’s heterotopology, as a conceptual frame, to understand the collective impact of this SSC entrepreneuring space. We relate the disconnection of the SSC to the process of critically connecting academics, back to their universities and consider whether such academic resistance, rooted in play, corporeal sensibility and emancipation, has the potential to enact social change and enhance entrepreneurial potential
Club · Disconnection · Disengagement theory · Emancipation · Entrepreneurship · Ethnography · Higher education · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Governance and Development
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |