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Chapter 1. Prising Open the Cracks in Neoliberal Universities; Catherine Manathunga and Dorothy Bottrell.- PART I. Seeing in the Cracks.- Chapter 2. The New Culture Wars in Australian University&nbsp;Workplaces; Paul Adams.- Chapter 3.&nbsp;Weighing Up Futures: Experiences of Giving Up an&nbsp;Academic Career; Ruth Barcan.- Chapter 4.&nbsp;Resisting the Norming of the Neoliberal Academic&nbsp;Subject: Building Resistance Across Faculty Ranks;&nbsp;Joseph Schwartz.- Chapter 5.&nbsp;Creating a Positive Casual Academic Identity Through&nbsp;Change and Loss; Joanne Yoo.- PART II. Decolonising the Academy.- Chapter 6.&nbsp;On (Not) Losing My Religion: Interrogating Gendered&nbsp;Forms of White Virtue in Pre-possessed Countries; Fiona Nicoll.- Chapter 7.&nbsp;Academic Collaboration in Pursuit of Decolonisation:&nbsp;The Story of the Aboriginal History Archive; Edwina Howell.- PART III. Prising Open the Cracks.- Chapter 8.&nbsp;Assessment Policy and “Pockets of Freedom” in a&nbsp;<br>Neoliberal University: A Foucauldian Perspective; Rille Raaper.- Chapter 9.&nbsp;Professional Doctorates as Spaces of Collegiality and&nbsp;Resistance: A Cross-Sectoral&nbsp;Exploration of the Cracks in&nbsp;Neoliberal Institutions;&nbsp;Catherine Manathunga, Peter Shay, Rosemarie Garner, Preetha&nbsp;Kolakkot Jayaram, Paul Barber, Bhatti Thi Kim Oanh, Sunny&nbsp;Gavran, Loretta Konjarski, and Ingrid D’Souza.- Chapter 10.&nbsp;Interrogating the “Idea of the University” Through the Pleasures of Reading Together; Tai Peseta, Jeanette Fyffe, and Fiona Salisbury.- Chapter 11.&nbsp;Neoliberalism in Thai and Indonesian Universities: Using&nbsp;Photo-Elicitation Methods to Picture Space for Possibility; James Burford and Teguh Wijaya Mulya.- Chapter 12. Making Visible Collegiality of a Different Kind;&nbsp;Mark Selkrig, Ron “Kim” Keamy, Kirsten Sadler, and Catherine&nbsp;Manathunga.- Chapter 13.&nbsp;Seeking an Institution-Decentring Politics to Regain&nbsp;Purpose for Australian University Futures;Marie Brennan and Lew Zipin.- Chapter 14. Prising Open the Cracks Through Polyvalent Lines of&nbsp;Inquiry; Catherine Manathunga and Dorothy Bottrell.<br>

<div><div><b>Catherine Manathunga </b>is Professor of Education Research at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. An historian who draws together interdisciplinary expertise to bring an innovative perspective to higher education research, she has published widely on doctoral education, cultural diversity and academic identity.</div><div><br></div></div><div><b>Dorothy Bottrell </b>is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia and casual HDR Supervisor at Victoria University, Australia. Her research interest in critical studies in higher education centres on academic resilience and she has published widely on youth, crime, and education studies.</div>

Constitutes the second volume in this diptych exploring the damaging effects of neoliberalism upon universities Analyses how academics can create space for resistance, hope and optimism Explores a wide range of viewpoints and discourses to analyse the link between neoliberalism and the privileging of Euro-American theorising in universities