Getting the Measure of Academia
Universities and the Politics of Accountability
in Anthropology in Action
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Don Brenneis
Don Brenneis
University of California, Santa Cruz brenneis@ucsc.edu
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Cris Shore
Cris Shore
University of Auckland c.shore@auckland.ac.nz
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Susan Wright
Susan Wright
Aarhus University suwr@edu.au.dk
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Audit culture and the politics of accountability are transforming not just universities and their role in society, but the very notions of society, academics and students. The modern 'university of excellence' applies a totalising and coercive commensurability to virtually every aspect of university life, from research output and teaching quality to parking space. But more than this, the politics of accountability enmesh universities in conflicts over neoliberal transformations which are taking a wide variety of forms in different parts of Europe, North and South America, and Australasia.