Merit, Justice, and the Political Theory of Academic Knowledge Production (Record no. 62379)
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| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-3-031-65498-5 |
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| Classification number | JC11-607 |
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| Subject category code | POL010000 |
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| Subject category code | JPA |
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| Personal name | Boisen, Camilla. |
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| Title | Merit, Justice, and the Political Theory of Academic Knowledge Production |
| Medium | [electronic resource] / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | by Camilla Boisen, Matthew C. Murray. |
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| Edition statement | 1st ed. 2024. |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Cham : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Springer Nature Switzerland : |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2024. |
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| Extent | IX, 133 p. 1 illus. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
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| Formatted contents note | Chapter 1: Introduction: Why interrogate the Concept of Merit -- Chapter 2: Production and Politique: Establishing Academic Production as Political -- Chapter 3: Merit as Moral: Merit as Moral: Justifications for Applications of Power -- Chapter 4: The Merit Mythology: Merit as Natural Selection -- Chapter 5: Accepting Dissent, Resistance and Error -- Chapter 6: Relegating the Rule of Merit and Escaping ‘Academic Fingertrap’. |
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| Summary, etc. | Academia has long established itself as an institution of knowledge and ideas. Facing pressure, many academic fields and institutions have turned their attention, singularly and collectively, to the task of what to do to rectify the causes of under-representations both academic knowledge itself and who gets to be an academic producer of knowledge. Boisen and Murray argue that simply solving the contemporary symptoms of inequity in ideas, knowledge production and the academy is not enough. Political Theory must be used to analyze why dominant ideas and institutions, namely merit and the resulting meritocracy and meritocratic procedures, were given power in the first place. In using political theory and theories of justice, the book argues that academia must radically shift rather than procedurally reform these methods of evaluation in order to achieve a more coherent approach to diversity in ideas, academic knowledge producers and academic knowledge production, which are necessary to bring about other forms of social change and reform in our larger world. In questioning the ideals and the use of rival ideals to temper flawed concepts, the present motivations and justifications for producing academic knowledge can be relegated as political tools, allowing true meaningful reform. Boisen and Murray show how contemporary crises in academia around diversification of perspectives can only be solved by considering the justifications of academic knowledge production, and the inherent risk of retaining the established competitive and presumptively ‘natural’, but ultimately biased, methods of deriving academic authority. Camilla Boisen is a historian of political thought. She is Senior Lecturer of Writing and Associate Dean of Curricular Academic Planning for the Arts & Humanities at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Matthew C. Murray is the Assistant Director for Growthpolicy and Program Support at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Matt runs the interdisciplinary research portal, Growthpolicy, supports the work of M-RCBG’s other 18 programs, has 3 previous published titles along with academic articles and taught Philosophy at Providence College for a decade in the fields of Political and Social Philosophy, Ethics and Moral Philosophy . |
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| Personal name | Murray, Matthew C. |
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| Title | Springer Nature eBook |
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| Relationship information | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783031654978 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9783031654992 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65498-5">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65498-5</a> |
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