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    Retooling the Humanities: The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities
    Retooling the Humanities: The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities
    Retooling the Humanities: The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities
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    Retooling the Humanities: The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities

    By The University of Alberta Press

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    Is market-driven research healthy? Responding to the language of “knowledge mobilization” that percolates through Canadian postsecondary education, the literary scholars who contributed these essays address the challenges that an intensified culture of research capitalism brings to the humanities in particular. Stakeholders in Canada's research infrastructure—university students, professors, and administrators; grant policy makers and bureaucrats; and the public who are the ultimate inheritors of such knowledge—are urged to examine a range of perspectives on the increasingly entrepreneurial university environment and its growing corporate culture.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe University of Alberta Press
    Release dateJul 2, 2012
    ISBN9780888646781
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