Ragna Boden
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 745673 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ragna Boden |
| PRENOMES | Ragna |
| SOBRENOME | Boden |
| ASSINATURA | BODEN R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wales Institute Cardiff |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7874-2440 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 203 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The ‘Better and Fairer Schools Agreement’; fairer funding but not fair
In 2024, the Australian Federal Labor Government announced the Better and FairerSchools Agreement 2025–2034, which sets policy, inter alia, for Australian school funding for the next ten years. This paper contributes to the critical policy analysis literature on school funding by undertaking a focused analysis of this recent policy, deploying a novel analytical framework. It explores and evaluates the likely impact of the BFSA on equity in fundin…
The accumulation economy of private schools
Too few studies of elite private schools consider how they derive power and prestige from their relationships and interactions with other social and political groups and institutions, including the State. This paper contributes to elite school studies by examining the relationality between the Australian State and private sector schools around how government funds public and private education. Of all Australian students, 35.5% attend private scho…
The material basis of elite schooling
This editorial for the special issue outlines a framework for understanding the material basis for elite schooling. It examines how we can conceptualise the paradoxical nature of the relations between capital, the state and elite schools. It synthesises and summarises the papers in the special issue whilst developing a framework for considering the alchemical relation to capital, capital and class, philanthropy and money, the coloniality of elite…
Paying the piper
There is a long-running cyclical public debate in the UK and Australia about the level of vice-chancellors’ remuneration in publicly funded universities. Whilst governments may promise greater oversight, little appears to change. Similar trends are emerging in some other European countries. This article critically considers the determination of vice-chancellors’ remuneration as a governance issue. In the context of corporatised public universitie…
How Capital generates capitals in English elite private schools
The sociological literature on elite private schooling is frequently informed by Bourdieu’s signature concepts of cultural, social and symbolic capital. Yet, his insistence that economic capital is the ‘root’ of these other capitals is often overlooked or downplayed. This paper addresses this lacuna. While it gestures to Bourdieu’s other capitals, its primary focus is on finance itself and the various legal and accounting regimes that facilitate …
Private schools and tax advantage in England and Wales — the longue duree
England and Wales have a sizeable fee-paying private school sector including well- resourced elite schools conferring considerable advantage on their students. The majority have charitable status, yielding substantial tax breaks. This significant source of funding for the sector has attracted comparatively little attention from educational researchers. This paper offers a critical socio-legal historical analysis of the tax treatment of these scho…
Escaping numbers? The ambiguities of the governance of education through data
This double special issue emerged from our growing concern over the ever wider and deeper quantification of personal and collective life, engendering a world ‘based on continuous calculation at eac
Seeking the Necessary ‘Resources of Hope’ in the Neoliberal University
If academics cannot defend the university as a democratic
Action research in universities and higher education worldwide
Responses to ‘The academic rat race
Responses to ‘The academic rat race: dilemmas and problems in the structure of academic competition’, published in Learning and Teaching 5.2 from Mary Taylor Huber, Joseph Heath, Rebecca Boden, John Craig and Christopher Newfield
Rank and File
Report on a field visit to Mondragón University
We have been investigating universities in our own countries for many years and are now turning our attention to exploring alternatives to current reforms. As part of these investigations, we spent two days of interviews and meetings at Mondragón, a town in Gipúzkoa in the Spanish Basque Country. Mondragón is at the centre of one of the largest groups of co-operatives in the world and in 1997 set up what is probably the only co-operative universi…
A Flat Earth Society? Imagining Academic Freedom
This paper starts from the standpoint that academic freedom is a necessary precondition to sociological imagination that challenges and defies the status quo. In the introduction, we consider the legacy of sociology as praxis - intended not merely to understand, but to change the world. We then move on to conceptualise academic freedom as requiring formal, infrastructural and psychic freedoms. We then chart the genealogy of universities from acad…
Employing discourse
What constitutes graduate employability is discursively framed. In this paper we argue that whilst universities in the UK have long had an involvement in producing useful and productive citizens, the ongoing neoliberalisation of higher education has engendered a discursive shift in definitions of employability. Traditionally, universities regarded graduate employment as an aspect of institutions' relationship with the labour market, and one where…
Accounting for Ethos or Programmes for Conduct? The Brave New World of Research Ethics Committees
This paper examines the operation of power and its consequences arising from the growth of new ethical bureaucracies in universities. We use the UK as a case study to illustrate more general points about the globalised nature and impact of such bureaucratisation. Our focus is on the social sciences as this is where, we argue, the impact is likely to be most marked. The paper is organised in five sections. The first introduces our concerns. Sectio…
Cold War Economics
Indonesia was one of the first developing countries to receive Soviet aid on a large scale. Declassified Soviet and East German archival sources, which illuminate the discussions and other interactions of government leaders and Communist party officials, diplomats, and experts from the two sides, greatly enrich our understanding of this important case of Nikita Khrushchev's ambitious policy in the Third World. This article presents for the first …
Not‐so‐distant cousins
Recent trends in tax transfers have seen an increasing interdependence of tax and welfare systems in determining access to and the quantum of benefits, particularly in relation to in‐work benefits, such as family support. Both the United Kingdom and Australia have adopted family support mechanisms that appear to operate in a similar way, but closer examination of the detail reflects the differences in underlying policy in the two jurisdictions. T…
The 'Gestapu' events of 1965 in Indonesia
One of the unsolved riddles of Indonesian history in the twentieth century is the so-called Gestapu affair and its aftermath. For the murder of six army generals on the night of 30 September 1965 the Indonesian communists and President Soekarno were widely held responsible. Indonesian leftists - real and alleged - were persecuted; hundreds of thousands were killed. The longterm consequences affected Indonesian domestic as well as foreign policy: …
Commodified science and social wellbeing
Performing Women
This article explores the development and maintenance of familiar gendered employment patterns and practices in UK universities, which are exemplars of new modes of knowledge production, commodification and marketization. After discussing in detail the evidence of gender discrimination in UK higher education and the changes in the academic labour process consequent to the incorporation of universities, at least at the policy level, into the ‘know…
Changing Science
This paper provides a detailed analysis of the change process of academic science. The change pressures currently visible in UK science have been conceptualised as the product of three interdependent dynamics: a shift towards neo‐liberal ideologies and discourses of government; a process of reconstitution of the relationship between government and science; and the resulting reshaping of science itself. Focusing on the universities and academic sc…
Democratising the research imagination
This paper problematises globalisation and the democratisation of the research imagination, highlighting the potentials for harm and good. We do so, first, by exploring two philosophical/epistemological issues: the definition of ‘knowledge’ and the role of ‘research’ in knowledge creation. The paper then considers some of possible consequences of the democratisation of knowledge by examining the case of HIV/AIDS in sub‐Saharan Africa and using it…
Managing the research imagination? Globalisation and research in higher education
This paper argues that, during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, universities have been captured by neo-liberal regimes of truth. We suggest that this may inhibit the 'research imagination' within universities and, consequently, their role in the democratisation of knowledge. We consider the role of capital in the globalisation of higher education, and the resulting global circulation of people and knowledge. We then examine ho…
Science
Paying for procreation
Employing discourse
What constitutes graduate employability is discursively framed. In this paper we argue that whilst universities in the UK have long had an involvement in producing useful and productive citizens, the ongoing neoliberalisation of higher education has engendered a discursive shift in definitions of employability. Traditionally, universities regarded graduate employment as an aspect of institutions' relationship with the labour market, and one where…
Managing the research imagination? Globalisation and research in higher education
This paper argues that, during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, universities have been captured by neo-liberal regimes of truth. We suggest that this may inhibit the 'research imagination' within universities and, consequently, their role in the democratisation of knowledge. We consider the role of capital in the globalisation of higher education, and the resulting global circulation of people and knowledge. We then examine ho…
Performing Women
This article explores the development and maintenance of familiar gendered employment patterns and practices in UK universities, which are exemplars of new modes of knowledge production, commodification and marketization. After discussing in detail the evidence of gender discrimination in UK higher education and the changes in the academic labour process consequent to the incorporation of universities, at least at the policy level, into the ‘know…
A Flat Earth Society? Imagining Academic Freedom
This paper starts from the standpoint that academic freedom is a necessary precondition to sociological imagination that challenges and defies the status quo. In the introduction, we consider the legacy of sociology as praxis - intended not merely to understand, but to change the world. We then move on to conceptualise academic freedom as requiring formal, infrastructural and psychic freedoms. We then chart the genealogy of universities from acad…
Accounting for Ethos or Programmes for Conduct? The Brave New World of Research Ethics Committees
This paper examines the operation of power and its consequences arising from the growth of new ethical bureaucracies in universities. We use the UK as a case study to illustrate more general points about the globalised nature and impact of such bureaucratisation. Our focus is on the social sciences as this is where, we argue, the impact is likely to be most marked. The paper is organised in five sections. The first introduces our concerns. Sectio…
Escaping numbers? The ambiguities of the governance of education through data
This double special issue emerged from our growing concern over the ever wider and deeper quantification of personal and collective life, engendering a world ‘based on continuous calculation at eac
Private schools and tax advantage in England and Wales — the longue duree
England and Wales have a sizeable fee-paying private school sector including well- resourced elite schools conferring considerable advantage on their students. The majority have charitable status, yielding substantial tax breaks. This significant source of funding for the sector has attracted comparatively little attention from educational researchers. This paper offers a critical socio-legal historical analysis of the tax treatment of these scho…
Rank and File
How Capital generates capitals in English elite private schools
The sociological literature on elite private schooling is frequently informed by Bourdieu’s signature concepts of cultural, social and symbolic capital. Yet, his insistence that economic capital is the ‘root’ of these other capitals is often overlooked or downplayed. This paper addresses this lacuna. While it gestures to Bourdieu’s other capitals, its primary focus is on finance itself and the various legal and accounting regimes that facilitate …
Cold War Economics
Indonesia was one of the first developing countries to receive Soviet aid on a large scale. Declassified Soviet and East German archival sources, which illuminate the discussions and other interactions of government leaders and Communist party officials, diplomats, and experts from the two sides, greatly enrich our understanding of this important case of Nikita Khrushchev's ambitious policy in the Third World. This article presents for the first …
Not‐so‐distant cousins
Recent trends in tax transfers have seen an increasing interdependence of tax and welfare systems in determining access to and the quantum of benefits, particularly in relation to in‐work benefits, such as family support. Both the United Kingdom and Australia have adopted family support mechanisms that appear to operate in a similar way, but closer examination of the detail reflects the differences in underlying policy in the two jurisdictions. T…
The 'Gestapu' events of 1965 in Indonesia
One of the unsolved riddles of Indonesian history in the twentieth century is the so-called Gestapu affair and its aftermath. For the murder of six army generals on the night of 30 September 1965 the Indonesian communists and President Soekarno were widely held responsible. Indonesian leftists - real and alleged - were persecuted; hundreds of thousands were killed. The longterm consequences affected Indonesian domestic as well as foreign policy: …
The material basis of elite schooling
This editorial for the special issue outlines a framework for understanding the material basis for elite schooling. It examines how we can conceptualise the paradoxical nature of the relations between capital, the state and elite schools. It synthesises and summarises the papers in the special issue whilst developing a framework for considering the alchemical relation to capital, capital and class, philanthropy and money, the coloniality of elite…
Toeing the Line
This paper sets out the background and operation of the compliance cost assessment (CCA) procedure currently used in British Government and the objectives of a research project which aims to investigate it. A product of the general drive to deregulate, CCAs are designed to assess the potential impact on business costs of proposed regulations. The article outlines an initial set of questions which relate both to the philosophy and intended purpose…
Toeing the Line
This paper sets out the background and operation of the compliance cost assessment (CCA) procedure currently used in British Government and the objectives of a research project which aims to investigate it. A product of the general drive to deregulate, CCAs are designed to assess the potential impact on business costs of proposed regulations. The article outlines an initial set of questions which relate both to the philosophy and intended purpose…
Pride and prejudice
Paying for procreation
Science
Changing Science
This paper provides a detailed analysis of the change process of academic science. The change pressures currently visible in UK science have been conceptualised as the product of three interdependent dynamics: a shift towards neo‐liberal ideologies and discourses of government; a process of reconstitution of the relationship between government and science; and the resulting reshaping of science itself. Focusing on the universities and academic sc…
Democratising the research imagination
This paper problematises globalisation and the democratisation of the research imagination, highlighting the potentials for harm and good. We do so, first, by exploring two philosophical/epistemological issues: the definition of ‘knowledge’ and the role of ‘research’ in knowledge creation. The paper then considers some of possible consequences of the democratisation of knowledge by examining the case of HIV/AIDS in sub‐Saharan Africa and using it…
Managing the research imagination? Globalisation and research in higher education
This paper argues that, during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, universities have been captured by neo-liberal regimes of truth. We suggest that this may inhibit the 'research imagination' within universities and, consequently, their role in the democratisation of knowledge. We consider the role of capital in the globalisation of higher education, and the resulting global circulation of people and knowledge. We then examine ho…
Commodified science and social wellbeing
Performing Women
This article explores the development and maintenance of familiar gendered employment patterns and practices in UK universities, which are exemplars of new modes of knowledge production, commodification and marketization. After discussing in detail the evidence of gender discrimination in UK higher education and the changes in the academic labour process consequent to the incorporation of universities, at least at the policy level, into the ‘know…
Cold War Economics
Indonesia was one of the first developing countries to receive Soviet aid on a large scale. Declassified Soviet and East German archival sources, which illuminate the discussions and other interactions of government leaders and Communist party officials, diplomats, and experts from the two sides, greatly enrich our understanding of this important case of Nikita Khrushchev's ambitious policy in the Third World. This article presents for the first …
Not‐so‐distant cousins
Recent trends in tax transfers have seen an increasing interdependence of tax and welfare systems in determining access to and the quantum of benefits, particularly in relation to in‐work benefits, such as family support. Both the United Kingdom and Australia have adopted family support mechanisms that appear to operate in a similar way, but closer examination of the detail reflects the differences in underlying policy in the two jurisdictions. T…
The 'Gestapu' events of 1965 in Indonesia
One of the unsolved riddles of Indonesian history in the twentieth century is the so-called Gestapu affair and its aftermath. For the murder of six army generals on the night of 30 September 1965 the Indonesian communists and President Soekarno were widely held responsible. Indonesian leftists - real and alleged - were persecuted; hundreds of thousands were killed. The longterm consequences affected Indonesian domestic as well as foreign policy: …
Accounting for Ethos or Programmes for Conduct? The Brave New World of Research Ethics Committees
This paper examines the operation of power and its consequences arising from the growth of new ethical bureaucracies in universities. We use the UK as a case study to illustrate more general points about the globalised nature and impact of such bureaucratisation. Our focus is on the social sciences as this is where, we argue, the impact is likely to be most marked. The paper is organised in five sections. The first introduces our concerns. Sectio…
Employing discourse
What constitutes graduate employability is discursively framed. In this paper we argue that whilst universities in the UK have long had an involvement in producing useful and productive citizens, the ongoing neoliberalisation of higher education has engendered a discursive shift in definitions of employability. Traditionally, universities regarded graduate employment as an aspect of institutions' relationship with the labour market, and one where…
Report on a field visit to Mondragón University
We have been investigating universities in our own countries for many years and are now turning our attention to exploring alternatives to current reforms. As part of these investigations, we spent two days of interviews and meetings at Mondragón, a town in Gipúzkoa in the Spanish Basque Country. Mondragón is at the centre of one of the largest groups of co-operatives in the world and in 1997 set up what is probably the only co-operative universi…
A Flat Earth Society? Imagining Academic Freedom
This paper starts from the standpoint that academic freedom is a necessary precondition to sociological imagination that challenges and defies the status quo. In the introduction, we consider the legacy of sociology as praxis - intended not merely to understand, but to change the world. We then move on to conceptualise academic freedom as requiring formal, infrastructural and psychic freedoms. We then chart the genealogy of universities from acad…
Rank and File
Responses to ‘The academic rat race
Responses to ‘The academic rat race: dilemmas and problems in the structure of academic competition’, published in Learning and Teaching 5.2 from Mary Taylor Huber, Joseph Heath, Rebecca Boden, John Craig and Christopher Newfield
Seeking the Necessary ‘Resources of Hope’ in the Neoliberal University
If academics cannot defend the university as a democratic
Action research in universities and higher education worldwide
Private schools and tax advantage in England and Wales — the longue duree
England and Wales have a sizeable fee-paying private school sector including well- resourced elite schools conferring considerable advantage on their students. The majority have charitable status, yielding substantial tax breaks. This significant source of funding for the sector has attracted comparatively little attention from educational researchers. This paper offers a critical socio-legal historical analysis of the tax treatment of these scho…
Escaping numbers? The ambiguities of the governance of education through data
This double special issue emerged from our growing concern over the ever wider and deeper quantification of personal and collective life, engendering a world ‘based on continuous calculation at eac
Paying the piper
There is a long-running cyclical public debate in the UK and Australia about the level of vice-chancellors’ remuneration in publicly funded universities. Whilst governments may promise greater oversight, little appears to change. Similar trends are emerging in some other European countries. This article critically considers the determination of vice-chancellors’ remuneration as a governance issue. In the context of corporatised public universitie…
How Capital generates capitals in English elite private schools
The sociological literature on elite private schooling is frequently informed by Bourdieu’s signature concepts of cultural, social and symbolic capital. Yet, his insistence that economic capital is the ‘root’ of these other capitals is often overlooked or downplayed. This paper addresses this lacuna. While it gestures to Bourdieu’s other capitals, its primary focus is on finance itself and the various legal and accounting regimes that facilitate …
The accumulation economy of private schools
Too few studies of elite private schools consider how they derive power and prestige from their relationships and interactions with other social and political groups and institutions, including the State. This paper contributes to elite school studies by examining the relationality between the Australian State and private sector schools around how government funds public and private education. Of all Australian students, 35.5% attend private scho…
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