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Researching Marginalized Issues, Policies, and Programs: Companion Animals, Same-sex Abuse, and Housing

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Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual

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The themes of oppression, privilege, and solidarity continue in this chapter as we discuss how neoliberalism impacts on the way research is undertaken, evaluated, and esteemed within the academy and (increasingly corporatized) public health, education, and welfare. While our focus is on same-sex abuse and housing issues, it is part of a broader discussion of how inequality, discrimination, and stigma can flourish under neoliberalism, which is after all designed to simplify, decontextualize, and dehumanize in the pursuit of efficiencies [see McCluskey (Indiana Law Journal 78: 783, 2003)]. In this chapter, as with the rest of the book, our focus is on both a critique of neoliberal interpretations of the world and what counts as legitimate knowledge and on finding ways to resist and challenge such interpretations. Here, we narrate our own experience of building academic alliances through being invited to write about human–animal violence links in same-sex relationships.

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Fraser, H., Taylor, N. (2016). Researching Marginalized Issues, Policies, and Programs: Companion Animals, Same-sex Abuse, and Housing. In: Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual. Palgrave Critical University Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57909-6_4

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