Intro -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The University Goes to Market: The Infiltration of Neoliberalism -- Introduction -- The Rise of Neoliberalism and Academic Capitalism -- The March for Metrics in the Ranking Regime -- Metrics and the Politics of the Production of Knowledge -- Resisting the Neoliberalization of the Academy -- References -- Chapter 2: Producing Marginalized Knowledge: Privilege and Oppression on the Basis of Species, Class, and Gender -- Introduction -- Intersectionality -- Truth, Knowledge, Privilege, and Alienation -- Intersecting Oppressions and the Neoliberal Academy -- Power, Ethics, and New Market Possibilities -- Women, Emotions, Animals -- The Possibilities of Dissent -- The Problem with Humanism -- Domesticity and Doublethink -- References -- Chapter 3: Connecting with Others at the Margins: Researching Women, Companion Animals, Love, and Loss -- Introduction -- Women, Companion Animals, Sexism, and Speciesism -- Feminist Methodology and the Challenge to Neoliberalism -- Public Intellectuals Researching from and About the Margins -- Women’s Focus Groups About Their Bonds with Companion Animals -- Focusing on Women -- Beyond the ‘Them/Us’ Divide -- Valuing Alliances Beyond Neoliberal Functionality -- References -- Chapter 4: Researching Marginalized Issues, Policies, and Programs: Companion Animals, Same-sex Abuse, and Housing -- Introduction -- Barriers to Victims of Same-sex Domestic Violence Seeking Help -- Love, Abuse, and Companionship Across the Divides -- ‘The Link’ Between Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse -- Collaboration and Literacy for Alliance and Knowledge Building -- Expecting Victims to Flee -- Future Needs and Plans for Same-sex Survivors of Domestic Violence -- Final Comments -- References -- Chapter 5: Living on the Margins: Producing ‘Evidence’ with ‘Feral’ Drug Users -- Introduction -- Neoliberal Public Welfare: Strings Attached -- Tough Love for Marginal Individuals -- Neoliberal Surveillance and the Silencing of Dissent -- The Precarity of Living on the Margins of Neoliberal Public Welfare -- Helping Alliances Project: With Drug Treatment Clients and Practitioners -- Finding 1: Self-medicating Pain -- Finding 2: Being Crippled by Poverty and Stigma -- Finding 3: State-sanctioned Chemical Restraint -- Finding 4: The Utility of Helping Alliances -- The Power of Evidence: Authority and Stigma -- Questioning the Validity of the Evidence Produced by Stigmatized Persons -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 6: Looking Ahead, Strategies for Resistance and Change -- Introduction -- Education as (More than) an Export Commodity -- Reduced Industrial Conditions -- Being Branded by Neoliberalism -- Resisting Docility -- The Importance of Praxis in and Beyond the Academy -- (Collective) Resistance Is a Necessity -- Trade Union Work and Enterprise Bargaining Advocacy -- Dolphins and the Kangaroo Court -- Collective (Feminist) Research and Care-full, Slow Scholarship -- Our Animals in Society Work Group -- Critical Pedagogy: Activism and Caring -- Conclusion: Where to from Here? -- References -- Further Reading -- Index -- .
