Humanities in Crisis? The Marketisation of Higher Education and Its Consequences in Europe, ca. 1970 to 2000

在20世纪70年代至90年代，引入二级市场和新公共管理原则等经济模式被应用于高等教育系统。历史学家最近开始研究“市场化”，但他们忽略了高等教育市场化与欧洲科学市场的建立以及与全球一致的研究国际化之间的相互关系。市场化和国际化进程对人文学科的影响在历史研究中仍然是一个空白，尽管当代人将这一时期反映为人文学科的根本危机。因此，本研究计划要求对这场危机的范围和质量。此外，它还分析了由于新的研究合作方式和竞争条件的变化，危机与人文学科弹性之间的紧张关系。欧洲人文学科的市场化和国际化带来了哪些新的合作与竞争？该项目通过询问这些发展的欧洲维度，通过英国和德国高等教育系统的例子研究国家特征，以及在检查大学机构的作用时反思当地环境，在不同层面上评估这个关键问题。该研究计划沿着三个分析步骤发展：首先，它改进了对人文学科公共资金的统计评估；其次，它确定了市场化和国际化进程以及高等教育政策选择的突出特征；第三，通过批判性话语分析审视人文学科的危机。

In the 1970ies to 1990ies, economic models such as the introduction of secondary markets and of New Public Management principles were implemented to higher education systems. Historians recently started to study the "marketisation", but they miss the interrelation between such a marketisation of higher education on the one side and the creation of a European science market and a globally aligned internationalisation of research on the other side. The consequences of marketisation and internationalisation processes for the humanities remain a blank spot in historical research even though contemporaries reflected this period as a fundamental crisis of the humanities. Therefore, this research proposal asks for the scope and the quality of this crisis. Moreover, it analyses the tension between the crisis and the resilience of the humanities due to new ways of research cooperation and changing conditions of competition. Which new dynamics of cooperation and competition resulted from a marketisation and internationalisation of the humanities in Europe? The project evaluates this key question on different levels by asking for the European dimension of these developments, by studying national characteristics through the examples of the British and the German higher education systems and by reflecting on local contexts when it examines the role of university bodies. The research proposal develops along three analytical steps: first, it improves a statistical evaluation of the public funding of the humanities; second, it identifies prominent features of marketisation and internationalisation processes along choices in higher education policy; third, it scrutinizes the crisis of the humanities by a critical discourse analysis.