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Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- Encountering global crises -- Approach and structure of the book -- Positioning ourselves -- Part one -- Today's universities: content and challenges -The colonial roots and neoliberal takeover of higher education -- Heading upstream -- Neoliberal enclosure and its origins -- The neoliberal agenda -- Australia's tertiary enclosure -- Hospicing higher education -- The case for transgressive alternatives -- Universities and narratives of crisis -- The climate crisis -- Covid-19, social injustice and universities -- Universities at the crossroads -- The case for change -- Reimagining the university -- The 'glitch' -- Diverse spaces for reimagining the university -- Minor reforms: a life support for modernity -- Major reforms: new possibilities for thinking -and doing -differently -- Beyond reform: hopiscing a system in decline -- Conclusions -- Part two -- values and practices -- Decolonising higher education -- Neoliberalism as colonialism continued -- The ongoing coloniality of universities today -- Toward a decolonial university -- Decolonising pedagogies -- Taking aim at the property paradigm -- Indigenous study on its own terms: the Dechinta Bush University -- Can we decolonise a university of the common good? -- De-centralisation, equity and democratisation -- Introduction -- Bullshit governance: the stifling effects of managerialism -- Colonial shadows: homogeneity and governance -- Cooperative governance: benefits and new ecologies -- Alternative governance regimes -- 'Co-governance': looking to Latin America -- The social science centre, Lincoln, England -- Towards democratic governance? -- Free universities: free learning, slow learning and decolonial learning on the university's threshold -- Reimagining universities from the outside in -- A brief history of free universities -- Free universities today' -- Class consciousness': revolutionising class content and pedagogies -- Reimagining time -- The dec