'I am done with that now.'Sense of alienations in Finnish academia

M Poutanen - Journal of Education Policy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Commercialization and commodification of higher education has been subjected to wide
critique in academic literature. The relative privilege of academic professions seems to be …

Mitigating work alienation: what can we learn from employee ownership?

M Vafeas, E Little, A Vafeas - The International Journal of Human …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Work alienation, driven by powerlessness, meaninglessness, social isolation, and self-
estrangement, negatively affects job performance and wellbeing. Yet it remains under …

Capabilities, recognition and the philosophical evaluation of poverty: A discussion of issues of justification and the role of subjective experiences

G Graf, G Schweiger - International Critical Thought, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Both the capability and the recognition approach are influential and substantial theories in
social philosophy. In this contribution, we outline their main assumptions in their assessment …

Transformative community projects in East Germany's rural spaces: exploring more sustainable forms of learning, working, and living

J Broecher, JF Painter - Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Increasingly people experience alienation in educational institutions, in work life, and
fragmentation in their personal life. This study explores more self-determined, healthy, and …

[PDF][PDF] The neoliberal transformation of university and restructuring of academic labour.

M Dafermos - Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS), 2023 - jceps.com
This study examines the neoliberal transformation of the university, focusing on the
significant changes in the organisation and orientation of academic labour. Academic labour …

Generative-AI, the media industries, and the disappearance of human creative labour

S Bender - Media Practice and Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article addresses the transformative role of Generative-AI (Gen-AI) in the creative media
and arts industries, focusing on concerns about the disappearance of human creative …

Expressions of the commodity form: Alienation and mathematics education

D Swanson - The Disorder of Mathematics Education: Challenging …, 2017 - Springer
This chapter refocuses Marxist debates on alienation and mathematics education around
the unifying factor of the commodity. The various complex paths from the organisation of the …

Breaking Bonds: How Academic Capitalism Feeds Processes of Academic Alienation

M Poutanen - The Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and …, 2023 - Springer
There is renewed interest in Karl Marx's critical concept of alienation, applied to the context
of higher education, to explain the growing dissatisfaction of academic labor. Academics feel …

[PDF][PDF] Exploring the Issue of Alienation in Orwell's Animal Farm through the Eyes of Marxism

FMS Ali, A Ubale, AFM Abdulla - Budapest International Research …, 2025 - researchgate.net
Orwell included the issue of alienation in almost major of his writings particularly his famous
book Animal Farm. The current research paper highlights the major argument of the Marxist …

Redefining Alienation: A Critical Analysis of Marx's Later Works and its Relevance to Contemporary Capitalist Societies

K Khalid, U Ahmed, SK Warraich - Journal of Politics and …, 2023 - jpis.pu.edu.pk
The concept of alienation within Marxist philosophy has been both influential and subject to
ambiguity and controversy. This study offers a fresh perspective by examining alienation in …