none 10.21983/P3.0050.1.00 punctum books punctum books 31179 175603431 3838977 20251205135244 10.21983 2025-12-05T13:53:02Z 2025-04-25T04:58:54Z 0 Adam Staley Groves National University of Singapore https://ror.org/01tgyzw49 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1842-1327 Nico Jenkins University of Maine https://ror.org/01adr0w49 Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei University of Aberdeen https://ror.org/016476m91 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1637-4261 We live in an era where the university system is undergoing great changes owing to developments in financing policies and research priorities, as well as changes in the society in which this system is embedded. This change toward a more market-oriented university, which also has immediate effects in academic peripheries such as the Balkans, the Middle East, or South-East Asia, is of great influence for the pedagogical practice of “less profitable” academic areas such as the Humanities: philosophy, languages, sociology, anthropology, history. Because of the absence of a historically grounded establishment of the Humanities, academic peripheries, usually accompanied by a weak civil society infrastructure, seem to offer the most fertile ground for rethinking the Humanities, their pedagogical practice, and their politics, as well as the greatest threats, such as the ongoing capitalization of research, and profitability as the norm of educational achievement. The sprawling presence of for-profit universities and in academic peripheries such as Albania and Kosovo is indicative of this problematic, as are consistent underfunding of universities and the relentless budget cuts in American and English, and to a lesser extent European, universities. Motivations for this ongoing attack on the university are often driven by a political system or a politics with an aggressive stance to critical thought. 1 10 07 2013 978-0-615-89871-1 punctum books Brooklyn, NY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Co-Access 10.1353/book.84301 Co-Access 10.2307/jj.2353896 10.21983/P3.0050.1.00 https://punctumbooks.com/titles/pedagogies-of-disaster/ https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0050.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0050.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0050.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0050.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0050.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0050.1.00.pdf