Format:
1 online resource (218 pages)
,
9 illustrations, text file, PDF.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781351267762
Series Statement:
The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables -- Foreword by Donatella della Porta -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- A new protest wave -- Exploring student mobilizations in Italian and English universities -- Student protests: some strategic dilemmas -- The structure of the book -- Note -- References -- PART I: Framework and context -- 2. The contentious politics of higher education -- Mobilizing within non-state institutions: the university context -- Activist strategies within universities -- Types of university leadership and their counter-strategies -- How to assess the impact of mobilizations -- Research question and expectations -- Case selection and methodology -- Deploying existing tools for a new research field? -- Notes -- References -- 3. The marketization of higher education in Italy and England and its resistances -- Introduction -- The transformations in Italian higher education of the 1990s -- The recentralization of Italian higher education (2001/2010) -- The building process of the neoliberal university in England -- The privatization of English higher education (2003/2010) -- Comparing the HE transformations in Italy and England: a different pace of marketization -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Empirical analysis -- 4. The contested HE reforms. The university mobilizations in Italy and England -- Introduction -- The student mobilizations against the 133/2008 and 240/2010 laws in Italy -- Political goals and conceptions of higher education in the Italian student movement -- Beyond the student movement: the mobilization of the Italian researchers in 2010 -- The 2010 student protest campaign in England -- Political goals and conceptions of higher education in the English student movement.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1138577111
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138577114
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138577114
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.4324/9781351267762
