# Critical University Studies [Wikipedia Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatization_of_higher_education) ( 2000s – present ) ## Description The political economy and critical race analysis of the contemporary university, libraries, and academic institutions — spanning critiques of the neoliberal university, [[Fred Moten]] and Stefano Harney's concept of the university's "undercommons," decolonial reimaginings of higher education, and critical race theory applied to library and information studies. ## Key Tags #critical-university-studies #higher-education #critical-race-theory ## Essential Works - Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. *The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study* - foundational critique of the university as institution and articulation of "fugitive" black study within and against it - la paperson. *A Third University Is Possible* - decolonial rethinking of the university's institutional form - Leung, Sofia Y., and Jorge R. López-McKnight, eds. *Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory* - critical race theory applied to library and information science ## Details ### Key Theorists - [[Fred Moten]] - co-author of *The Undercommons*, theorizing fugitivity and black study against and within the university - la paperson - theorized decolonial "third university" practices as an alternative institutional form ### Exemplary Practitioners %% none yet %% ### Related Concepts - [[Labor Issues]] - academic and library labor conditions are a recurring thread in this bibliography ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Associated Movements or Institutions - Association of Research Libraries - professional body whose assessment and equity conferences appear repeatedly in this bibliography ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Carlson, Scott. “The Library Of The Future.” _The Chronicle of Higher Education_ (Washington) 52, no. 16 (2005): B.230-. DeKeseredy, Walter S., Kathryn Burnham, Robert Nicewarner, James Nolan, and Amanda K. Hall-Sanchez. “Aggrieved Entitlement in the Ivory Tower: Exploratory Qualitative Results from a Large-Scale Campus Climate Survey.” _Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology_, ahead of print, October 1, 2019. [https://doi.org/10.21428/88de04a1.9d517809](https://doi.org/10.21428/88de04a1.9d517809). Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. _The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study_. Minor Compositions, 2013. Jaggars, Damon, and DeEtta Jones. “An Agile Planning and Operations Framework.” _Performance Measurement and Metrics_ 19, no. 2 (2018): 121–26. [https://doi.org/10.1108/PMM-11-2017-0057](https://doi.org/10.1108/PMM-11-2017-0057). la paperson. _A Third University Is Possible_. Forerunners: Ideas First from the University of Minnesota Press. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Leung, Sofia Y., and Jorge R. López-McKnight, eds. _Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory_. The MIT Press, 2021. [https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11969.001.0001](https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11969.001.0001). Magnus, Ebony, Maggie Faber, and Jackie Belanger. “A Consideration of Power Structures (and the Tensions They Create) in Library Assessment Activities.” _Proceedings of the 2018 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment: December 5–7, 2018, Houston, TX_, Association of Research Libraries, October 2019, 600–606. [https://doi.org/10.29242/lac.2018.55](https://doi.org/10.29242/lac.2018.55). Nataraj, Lalitha, Holly Hampton, Talitha R. Matlin, and Yvonne Nalani Meulemans. “‘Nice White Meetings’: Unpacking Absurd Library Bureaucracy through a Critical Race Theory Lens.” _Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship_ 6 (December 2020): 1–15. [https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v6.34340](https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v6.34340). _The Self-Assertion of the German University: Address, Delivered on the Solemn Assumption of the Rectorate of the University Freiburg the Rectorate 1933/34: Facts and Thoughts_. n.d. “The University of Michigan Doubled Down on D.E.I. What Went Wrong? - The New York Times.” _The New York Times_, n.d. “UW_Psychology_Report.” n.d.