ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on exploring critical models of higher education practice in art education as well as in political economy and philosophy exploring copying, accumulation by dispossession and the threats of commodification of the commons of culture, external and internal nature to explore the current circumstances of scholarship in sport. It draws on theories of the commons to argue that sport social scientists must grapple with the antagonisms between scholarship and copyright and between membership of a ‘secular vocation’ and the relations of intellectual production and labour processes of the contemporary corporate university. A labour process approach exposes links between Michael Burawoy’s and Pascal Gielen’s frameworks in the fields of both commodification and regulation. A more achievable option may be to consider approaches to learning and teaching that have shaped other approaches to education. In a move related to the corporatization and uncertainty, the UK higher education begun to emphasize ‘teaching for employability’.
