Part of the "Discourse, Power, Resistance" series, which offers a critique of educational and academic theory and practice in the UK, the US and, increasingly, elsewhere, this seventh volume is written by academics concerned to sustain that critique and to affirm the true - and lasting - values of the academy, and how these values are maintained.

Terry Eagleton leads this exploration of how power operates in the academy with the argument that power is itself no bad thing, and Slavoj iek maintains that the people always have power and should be roused to use it.