Ideology, ‘truth’ and spin: Dialectic relations between the neoliberal think-tank movement and academia in Australia (AUR 59 01)

By Ian Dobson. Some years ago, Pierre Bourdieu (2003, p. 21) reflected that academia, was a failing ‘edifice of critical thought’ and ‘in need of reconstruction’. He saw a global hegemony of neoliberal ideas emerging largely unscathed by critique from these increasingly isolated enclaves. More...