The Alienated Academic

"The Alienated Academic" is an academic book that addresses the challenges and alienation in higher education in the Global North. It highlights how the increasing commercialization and the influence of entrepreneurial discourses on the academic world lead both educators and students to feel alienated from their work and identity. Using Marx's concept of alienation, the book examines the relationship between academic knowledge, labor, and identity. It argues that through collective resistance, alternative forms of life and knowledge production based on social utility are possible. The book is aimed at professionals in the higher education sector as well as anyone concerned with the impacts of neoliberalism and market mechanisms in universities.