Haunting the Knowledge Economy

Jane Kenway holds a Chair in Global Education Studies in the Education Faculty, Monash University, Australia. Her latest books include her co-authored Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis, (2006) and Consuming Children: Entertainment-Advertising-Education, (2002). She has also co-edited Innovation and Tradition: the Arts, Humanities and the Knowledge Economy, (2004) and Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, and Politics,(2005).Elizabeth Bullen is a Lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Arts Faculty, Deakin University, Australia. Her research interests include gender, globalization and consumption practices.  She is co-author of Consuming Children: Entertainment-Advertising-Education, (2002) and co-editor of Innovation and Tradition: The Arts, Humanities and the Knowledge Economy, (2004).Johannah Fahey is a writer and academic. She is a Research Fellow in the Education Faculty, Monash University, Australia. Her research interests include poststructuralism, postcolonialism, globalization and contemporary Australian visual arts.  Her latest book is Before and Now: David Noonan, (2005).  Her forthcoming co-authored book with Jane Kenway is Globalising the Research Imagination, (Routledge).Simon Robb is Research Fellow at the Hawke Institute, University of South Australia. His research interests include literary theory and social sustainability. He is co-editor of Innovation and Tradition: The Arts, Humanities and the Knowledge Economy (2004) and author of the experimental history The Hulk (2003).

• Foreshadowing 1. The Knowledge Economy 2. The Risk Economy 3. The Gift Economy 4. The Libidinal Economy 5. The Survival Economy. Foreboding?