Economic Subjectivities in Higher Education

Self, Policy and Practice in the Knowledge Economy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2642015
AutoresSue Saltmarsh (0000-0003-4375-7073, Australian Catholic University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1970
Volumen17
Número2
Fecha de publicación1970-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCultural Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692
EditorialUniversity of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5130/csr.v17i2.2007
OpenAlexW2023232986
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias 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