The academic capitalist regime in Colombia : discourses from national research policies and professors
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This dissertation is centered on whether and how the production (research) and transmission (education) of knowledge are considered public or private goods. Drawing on the theories of academic capitalism and neoliberalism as an important underlying ideology, this dissertation analyzed national research policies that shape professors' work as well as professors as the 'users' of these policies. Particularly, the first phase of this dissertation examined four national research policies: Quality of National Publications, Faculty Promotion, Research Groups and Researchers' Classifications, and Spin-off Policies. The second phase was based on a multicase study that examined the link between these four national research policies and professors' actions. This study found that the academic capitalist regime was reflected and accepted in Colombian national research policies and, with some resistance, among professors. The final analysis demonstrates that the academic capitalist regime generated a growing stratification at country, field and individual levels that was reproduced and perpetuated through the creation of a common sense among national research policies and professors. Theoretically, this dissertation also extended the theory of academic capitalism by adding the commercial for-profit model of academic publishing as a new layer and essential component of the academic capitalist regime that generates prestige behavior among professors.
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Ph. D.