The Contentious Politics of Higher Education : Struggles and Power Relations within English and Italian Universities (Paperback)

1. Introduction, Part I: Framework and context, 2. The contentious politics of higher education, 3. The marketization of higher education in Italy and England and its resistances, Part II: Empirical analysis, 4. The “contested HE reforms.” The university mobilizations in Italy and England, 5. What is at stake? The impact of student activism on Italian universities, 6. What is at stake? The impact of student activism on English universities, Part III: Conclusion, 7. The contentious politics of higher education. Some concluding remarks