By Michiel Baas This chapter analyses how a neoliberal masculine logic permeates discussion of Australia’s “education industry” and associated skilled migration program. Indian students play a key role in this. It is generally agreed that the initial phenomenal growth in… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘neoliberalism’
Universities, neoliberalisation, and the (im)possibility of critique
By Jana Bacevic Last Friday in April, I was at a conference entitled Universities, neoliberalisation and (in)equality at Goldsmiths, University of London. It was an one-day event featuring presentations and interventions from academics who work on understanding, and criticising, the… Read More ›
“I Want To Be a Soccer Player or a Mathematician”: Fifth-Grade Black Boys’ Aspirations at a “Neoliberal” Single-Sex School
By Joseph Derrick Nelson For over a decade, amid widespread neoliberal education reform in the United States, single-sex schools for boys of color have increased in popularity among urban school districts. The growing interest in this school model is… Read More ›
White Working-Class Boys in the Neoliberal Meritocracy: The Pitfalls of the “Aspiration-Raising” Agenda
by Sam Baars The great meritocracy When she became British prime Minister in July 2016, the core narrative of Teresa May’s premiership was quick to emerge: “I want Britain to be the world’s great meritocracy – a country where everyone has… Read More ›
Coming of Age through the Recession: High School Imaginings of Post-Recession Futures in New York Cities
by Patrick Alexander What do you want to be when you finally grow up? In 2014, on a humid September morning, I boarded a crowded subway train to arrive at the New York City public high school where I would… Read More ›
Digital Capitalism and Guard Labour
An interesting thread I’m following up from Four Futures: Life After Capitalism. This is Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev on ‘guard labour‘: Another dubious first for America: We now employ as many private security guards as high school teachers —… Read More ›
Wolfgang Streeck on The Five Disorders of Capitalism
In this talk at Goldsmith PERC, Wolfgang Streeck discusses ‘How Will Capitalism End?’:
Evgeny Morozov & David Harvey on the end of neoliberalism
A fantastic discussion, via Stuart Elden:
From TINA to TATIANA
A great rebuttal of the neoliberal insistence that There Is No Alternative, from loc 3840 of the recent book by Yanis Varoufakis: We were not naive enough to think that our blueprint would be implemented on the strength of its rationality…. Read More ›
The strange new death of neoliberalism?
Is neoliberalism dying? Neoliberalism has been a much debated topic in sociology and other disciplines in recent years. It has been applied to a wide array of topics with claims of neo-liberalisation of education, healthcare and young academics. There is a… Read More ›
How many neoliberals does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A brilliant joke passed on by Frank Pasquale on Twitter: But it raises a serious point: why are neoliberals taken so seriously? Does popular opposition sometimes inadvertently buy into neoliberal’s self-mythology of hard nosed pragmatism? Do we sometimes need to remind ourselves that… Read More ›
Call for Papers (CfP): VI. International Conference on Critical Education
VI. International Conference on Critical Education 10-13 August 2016, London, UK Dialogue, Solidarity and Resistance against Neo-liberalism and Neo-conservatism in Education The International Conference on Critical Education (ICCE), previously held in Athens (2011, 2012), Ankara (2013), Thessaloniki (2014) and Wroclaw, Poland… Read More ›
Stuck in the mess of life: anticipation and disappointment
In recent papers Ruth Müller has offered what I think is the very important concept of anticipatory acceleration to make sense of how subjects, in this case post-doctoral researchers, wilfully participate in social acceleration. Drawing on the work of James Scott, she outlines… Read More ›
Book Review: Henry Giroux’s On Critical Pedagogy
by Sadia Habib Henry A Giroux. 2013. On Critical Pedagogy, New York: Bloomsbury On Critical Pedagogy by Henry A. Giroux is a collection of essays providing engaging, confident and hopeful insights, as well as “an important set of theoretical tools”… Read More ›
A feminist leaves the neoliberal university
A moving and important post by Liz Moorish. I think it’s a response to a colleague’s letter of resignation but I’m not certain: I was very sorry to read your letter of resignation. I was, though, delighted that you decided… Read More ›
A single train station makes £439,651.30 a year from their toilets
Thanks to @lucyhbmort for flagging up this fascinating finding. I’d often wondered about this and use the train station in question very frequently. Here’s the source – this might seem like an interesting bit of ephemera but I think it… Read More ›
Author Meets Readers: Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos
Author Meets Readers: Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos Date: Tuesday 30 June 2015 Time: 4-6pm Venue: Vera Anstey Room, LSE Old Building, Houghton Street. Author: Wendy Brown (Political Science, UC Berkeley) Readers: Anne Barron (LSE Law), Nick Couldry (LSE Media… Read More ›
Fitcoin, exercise and the logic of capital
Would you exercise for money? A new online currency system has been developed to reward people for their exercise activity. Fitcoin is a “cryptocurrency” like Bitcoin (currently it actually uses Bitcoin but there are plans to develop their own) which has… Read More ›
The hollowing out of local government in the UK
This agenda has gone very far in an extremely short space of time: Councils of all stripes have been outsourcing for decades, which is why your local traffic warden is usually tramping the streets on behalf of a private firm…. Read More ›
Were universities ever quiet?
For the last few months I’ve been regularly coming into my department to work on Sundays. It’s quite a conducive environment for working on my soon to be completed book, as well as for catching up on ad hoc tasks. My desktop… Read More ›
CfP: The Neoliberal University: Gender, Class, & Sexuality
This panel intends to investigate processes of bureaucratization and business-afication of the university and the role that these have in re-shaping the interrelations of class, gender, and sexuality; and the specific ways that the change from educational pedagogy to business… Read More ›
The Study of the Learner Identity in Neoliberal Times
by Garth Stahl Class, gender, and ethnicity, while contested areas, all play a role in the constitution of identity as the self is not fixed. Identities are not distinct from discourses but instead produced by and through them. As collections… Read More ›
Boyhood in Neoliberal Times: The ‘Crisis of Masculinity’ Debate, Post-industrialisation, and Identity Work
by Garth Stahl In the late 20th/early 21st century, many scholars (Mac an Ghaill, 1994; Fine, Weis, Addelston, & Marusza, 1997; Weis, 2004; Nayak, 2003; 2006) have cited the massive societal shifts in economic and gender-relations which have resulted in… Read More ›
Social Theory Centre Annual Lecture @SocioWarwick: Imogen Tyler: Classificatory Struggle
Social Theory Centre Annual Lecture 2015 Classificatory Struggle: Class Culture and Inequality in Neo-liberal Times A Public Lecture with Imogen Tyler Warwick University, MS.02 May 13th followed by drinks reception – this event is free to attend – all… Read More ›
The omnipresent threat of violence under neoliberalism
An important argument by David Graeber in his new book. I’ve been thinking about this (particularly on university campuses) since events at Warwick last term and I find his analysis deeply persuasive: And indeed, in this most recent phase of… Read More ›
From passion to profit: exploitation under neoliberalism, or, how seriously should we take latte art?
Since I first encountered the notion of a calling, I’ve found it a difficult category to expunge from my thought. It appeals to me greatly on a personal level: it points to the higher dimension to human experience which I believe tends… Read More ›
Book Review: Identity, Neoliberalism and Aspiration – Educating white working-class boys
review by Sadia Habib Identity, Neoliberalism and Aspiration – Educating white working-class boys by Garth Stahl Adopting a culturalist approach and a Bourdieusian lens, the book focuses on research conducted in London to learn about white working-class students’ experiences, identities… Read More ›
David Cameron as neoliberal prophet
I recently heard these prophetic words from UK Prime Minister David Cameron on the radio: if you’re not good or outstanding, you have to change. If you can’t do it yourself, you have to let experts come in and help you… Read More ›