Economic subjectivities in higher education: Self, policy and practice in the knowledge economy

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Saltmarsh, Sue. (2011). Economic subjectivities in higher education: Self, policy and practice in the knowledge economy. Cultural Studies Review. 17(2), pp. 115 - 139. https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v17i2.2007
AuthorsSaltmarsh, Sue
Abstract

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.

Keywordshigher education; knowledge economy policy; economic subjectivity; pedagogy; Foucault
Year2011
JournalCultural Studies Review
Journal citation17 (2), pp. 115 - 139
PublisherUTS E-Press
ISSN1837-8692
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v17i2.2007
Open accessOpen access
Page range115 - 139
Research GroupSchool of Education
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