Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Retreat from the Critical -- 1. Disinterested Scholars or Interested Parties? The Public's Investment in Self-interested Universities -- 2. Critical Theory and the New University: Reflections on Time and Technology -- 3. Gendered Hierarchies of Knowledge and the Prestige Factor: How Philosophy Survives Market Rationality -- 4. What's to be Explained? And is it so Bad? -- 5. Higher Education 'Markets' and University Governance -- 6. Transforming the Public University: Market Citizenship and Higher Education Regulatory Projects -- 7. The State of the Universities -- 8. The Modern University and its Transaction with Students -- 9. Markets, Discipline, Students: Governing Student Conduct and Performance in the University -- 10. 'Selling the dream': Law School Branding and the Illusion of Choice -- 11. Disciplining Academic Women: Gender Restructuring and the Labour of Research in Entrepreneurial Universities -- 12. Functional Dystopia: Diversity, Contestability and New Media in the Academy -- 13. A Design for Learning? A Case Study of the Hidden Costs of Curriculum and Organisational Change -- 14. 'Smoking Guns': Reflections on Truth and Politics in the University -- 15. Seeking the Necessary 'Resources of Hope' in the Neoliberal University -- Bibliography.