Chapter 10: Reconsidering the Role of Faculty in Neoliberal Societies of Information and Knowledge

In recent decades, politics, economy, culture, social and work relations, and free time have been subject to several transformations, dynamized by new media and information networks. Speed, both in information transfer and people wave, brings us to face a new world, where barriers are increasingly weaker, despite the efforts to prevent these displacement opportunities of people belonging to disadvantaged countries and low income groups. Current globalization is still far from being ruled by the existing Human Rights framework. Disparities and disasters generated by this process are so gross (environmental disasters, plunder of natural and human resources of poorest countries, workers and children exploitation . . .), but at the same time, the potential to repair such injustices, errors, and faults is higher in a globalized world, but governed by democracy and values such as fraternity and social justice.