Biopolitical Geographies of Student Life
Private Higher Education and Citizenship Life-Making in Singapore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8375426 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yi''En Cheng (0000-0002-8897-0372, University of Oxford, corresponding author), Yi'En Cheng |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1078-1093 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00045608.2015.1059179 |
| OpenAlex | W1610968700 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 63 |
Drawing on eleven months of fieldwork in Singapore, this article uses the case of young people studying at a private higher education institute to study the biopolitical geographies of student life. I focus on the analytic lens of biopolitical citizenship as one way to understand how biopower works in and through the material relations and practices of social reproduction. I critically examine how young people are engaging with and performing biopolitics in ways that attempt to (re)define what constitutes a “mainstream,” viable, classed, and gendered citizenship life. I also explore students' (“alternative”) biopolitical performances through their critical evaluations of state-led discourses, their ability to invent hope as a way of coping and living, and their online enactment of a form of modest activism. Additionally, this article offers an initial engagement with Kraftl's (2015) theorization of alternative biopolitical projects in educational spaces and introduces the concepts of “pulling” and “pushing” to frame the paradoxical manner in which young people engage with biopolitics
Biopower · Citizenship · Feminization (sociology) · Governmentality · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
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Urban custodians and hospitable citizens
Chinese migrant women as boundary markers in Singapore
How am I supposed to feel? Female students’ emotional reasoning about academic becoming in transnational higher education
Education unbound? Enlivening debates with a mobilities perspective on learning
(Un)wanted bodies and the internationalisation of higher education
The ‘soft infrastructure’ of the Belt and Road Initiative
Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban University from Singapore – A viewpoint forum
Critical Geographies of Education Beyond “Value”
Neoliberalising Education
Domesticating transnational education
Geographies of education
Geographies of citizenship in higher education
Learning in neoliberal times
Shaping Asia Through Student Mobilities
Educated non-elites' pathways to cosmopolitanism
Educational Friction
In Anticipation
Timepass
Small acts, kind words and “not too much fuss”
Emerging education hubs
The new prudentialism in education
“A Zone of Indistinction” – A Critique of Giorgio Agamben’s Con-cept of Biopolitics
Neoliberal Morality in Singapore
Global Futures in East Asia
Between two worlds
Foucault's population geographies
These are not the best students’
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The geographies of UK university halls of residence
Young People, Hope, and Childhood-Hope
Is blood thicker than water? Single Indian Singaporean women and the geographies of ‘being’ family
Great expectations and post‐feminist accountability
Reclassifying Upward Mobility
Subject, action and polis
Becoming employable students and ‘ideal’ creative workers
The transnational track
The Politics of Aging
Spaces and Scales of African Student Activism
A Wrench in the Global Works
Towards critical geographies of the university campus
Affect and biopower
The modern model family at home in Singapore
Neoliberalism as a mobile technology
Adapting relationships with place
Alter-Childhoods
Youth transitions and going to university
Taking young people as political actors seriously
Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction
Neoliberal Governmentality in the European Union
In the heart, there’s nothing
Patriotic professionalism in urban China
Governing through contingency
Geographies of children and youth II
Meritocracy and Elitism in a Global City
College rank and neo-liberal subjectivity in South Korea
Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique
Educating the national citizen in neoliberal times
Creating an intentionally dialogic space
Student Geographies
Consuming campus
Higher Education and Spatial (Im)Mobility
Youthful escapes? British students, overseas education and the pursuit of happiness
Introduction
Becoming and Being Hopeful
Student Geographies', Urban Restructuring, and the Expansion of Higher Education
Going Away to Uni
Marketing the Self
The Student City
Educational Mobility and the Gendered Geography of Cultural Capital
Singapore's global schoolhouse strategy
The Ideology of Pragmatism
Time protagonists
Governing the Soul - a Quarter of a Century On
The Psychic Life of Power
Cultural Geographies lecture
Biopolitics and the molecularization of life
The Elusive Subjects of Neo-Liberalism
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |