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Wild things: Global histories in rural England 野生动物:英国乡村的全球历史

4区社会学

SOUNDINGS Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.3898/soun.84-85.rev01.2023

Emma Parker

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Beyond the consolations of professionalism: resisting alienation at the neoliberal university 超越专业主义的慰藉:抵制新自由主义大学的异化

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SOUNDINGS Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.3898/soun.84-85.01.2023

Jonathan S. Davies, Adam Standring

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The idea of a democratic university 民主大学的理念

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SOUNDINGS Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.3898/soun.84-85.08.2023

Michael Rustin

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Hallways to learning: creating brave spaces inside contemporary Higher Education 学习的走廊:在当代高等教育中创造勇敢的空间

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SOUNDINGS Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.3898/soun.84-85.06.2023

Fatema Khatun, Gary Poynton, Josh Evans

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Resisting higher education's (re) production of elitism in an ethos of care-taking 以关怀的精神抵制高等教育对精英主义的(再)生产

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SOUNDINGS Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.3898/soun.84-85.02.2023

Beverley Hayward

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Leadership, excellence and the marginalisation of refugees in Higher Education 高等教育中难民的领导力、卓越性和边缘化

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SOUNDINGS Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.3898/soun.84-85.03.2023

Ian M. Cook, Prem Kumar Rajaram, John Clarke

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The long resolution? Responding to economic and social change in postwar South Wales 长期解决方案?回应战后南威尔士的经济和社会变化

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SOUNDINGS Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.3898/soun.84-85.13.2023

Aled Singleton

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The rise and rise of real estate neoliberalism 房地产新自由主义的兴起

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SOUNDINGS Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.3898/soun.84-85.15.2023

Adam Peggs

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Branch life: negotiating national and local activism in UCU 分支生活:谈判UCU的国家和地方激进主义

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SOUNDINGS Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.3898/soun.84-85.07.2023

David Featherstone, Bill Schwarz, John Narayan, Lucia Pradella

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The crisis in higher education 高等教育的危机

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SOUNDINGS Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.3898/soun.84-85.editorial.2023

Marjorie Reeves

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