Economic Subjectivities in Higher Education

Self, Policy and Practice in the Knowledge Economy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2642015
AutoresSue Saltmarsh (0000-0003-4375-7073, Australian Catholic University, autor correspondente)
Ano1970
Volume17
Fascículo2
Data de publicação1970-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCultural Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692
EditoraUniversity of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5130/csr.v17i2.2007
OpenAlexW2023232986
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas18

This article considers higher education in the context of global knowledge economy policies as a site for the production of economic subjectivities. Drawing insights from poststructuralist theory and feminist economics, it explores how the incorporation of economic discourse and market metaphors into education policy and practice functions as a disciplinary technique of governmentality. The article argues that while economic discourse displaces, disciplines and disrupts educational discourse, there is a need for greater acknowledgement of the productive potential of the intersection of education and economy as a means through which agency is in part accomplished. Implications for university learning and labour are considered, with a view to contributing to dialogues about new ways of undisciplining economic subjectivities, through which new ways of doing and being might enact alternative educational economies

Acknowledgement · Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Discipline · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Education policy · Governmentality · Higher education · Knowledge economy · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Governance and Development