Mark Olssen

Mark Olssen, FAcSS, is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Education Policy in the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey. His most recent books are Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy: thin communitarian perspectives on political philosophy and education, Routledge, New York and London, 2010; Toward A Global Thin Community: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Cosmopolitan Commitment, Paradigm Press, Boulder and London, published 2009.  He is also co-author (with John Codd and Anne-Marie O'Neill) of Education Policy: Globalisation, Citizenship, Democracy, (Sage, London, 2004) and author of Michel Foucault: Materialism and Education, Greenwood Press, New York, 1999/Paradigm Press, Boulder, 2006. He has also published many book chapters and articles in academic journals in Britain, America and in Australasia. Most recently, an interview by Raaper, Rille, titled, ‘Mark Olssen on the neoliberalisation of higher education and academic lives: an interview,' Policy Futures in Education, 14(2), pp. 147 -163 (February, 2016), and ‘Neoliberalism and Higher Education Today: research, accountability and impact'.  British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 37, (1), pp. 129 - 148 (January 2016).