After neoliberalism: analysing the present

Hall, Stuart; Massey, Doreen; Rustin, Michael

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“…This is important when through political economy, hierarchical or dominant neoliberal logic promotes a single 'universal model' of technology in education, without reference to a wider social context (Rustin, 2013). Discourse matters, because it can 'mould identities' (Massey, 2013) in narrow, objective economically-based terms which 'colonise discourses of democracy and student-centredness' (Greener and Perriton, 2005:67). This undermines subjective social, political, material and relational (Jones, 2012: 3) contexts for those learning when humans are omitted.…”

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Learning from a Deceptively Spacious Policy Discourse

Hayes

2016

Research, Boundaries, and Policy in Networked Learning

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Networked Learning, e-Learning and Technology Enhanced Learning have each been defined in different ways, as people's understanding about technology in education has developed. Yet each could also be considered as a terminology competing for a contested conceptual space. Theoretically this can be a 'fertile trans-disciplinary ground for represented disciplines to affect and potentially be re-orientated by others ' (Parchoma and Keefer, 2012), as differing perspectives on terminology and subject disciplines yield new understandings. Yet when used in government policy texts to describe connections between humans, learning and technology, terms tend to become fixed in less fertile positions, linguistically. A deceptively spacious policy discourse that suggests people are free to make choices conceals an economically-based assumption that implementing new technologies, in themselves, determines learning. Yet it actually narrows choices open to people as one route is repeatedly in the foreground and humans are not visibly involved in it. An impression that the effective use of technology for endless improvement is inevitable cuts off critical social interactions and new knowledge for multiple understandings of technology in people's lives. This paper explores some findings from a corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of UK policy for educational technology during the last 15 years, to help to illuminate the choices made. This is important when through political economy, hierarchical or dominant neoliberal logic promotes a single 'universal model' of technology in education, without reference to a wider social context (Rustin, 2013). Discourse matters, because it can 'mould identities' (Massey, 2013) in narrow, objective economically-based terms which 'colonise discourses of democracy and student-centredness' (Greener and Perriton, 2005:67). This undermines subjective social, political, material and relational (Jones, 2012: 3) contexts for those learning when humans are omitted. Critically confronting these structures is not considered a negative activity. Whilst deterministic discourse for educational technology may leave people unconsciously restricted, I argue that, through a close analysis, it offers a deceptively spacious theoretical tool for debate about the wider social and economic context of educational technology. Methodologically it provides insights about ways technology, language and learning intersect across disciplinary borders (Giroux, 1992), as powerful, mutually constitutive elements, ever-present in networked learning situations. In sharing a replicable approach for linguistic analysis of policy discourse I hope to contribute to visions others have for a broader theoretical underpinning for educational technology, as a developing field of networked knowledge and research (Conole and Oliver, 2002;Andrews, 2011).

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Learning from a Deceptively Spacious Policy Discourse

Hayes

2016

Research, Boundaries, and Policy in Networked Learning

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“…Hasta la fecha el resultado de la crisis en términos de política regulatoria en Europa es un esfuerzo redoblado para ampliar la agenda neoliberal (Hall et al, 2013). La recesión de la década de 1970 y las transformaciones posteriores en los modos de gobernanza urbana son especialmente relevantes.…”

Section: Austeridad Planificación Y Crisis De Reproducción Socialunclassified

“…En primer lugar, los núcleos urbanos experimentan un mayor impacto de la desaceleración en la construcción ante la escasez de crédito por el rol que este sector juega en sus economías, incluyendo la recaudación de ingresos públicos a través de tasas; el estado general de consumo deprimido impacta también en sectores fundamentales de la economía urbana, como el turismo y el consumo conspicuo. Por otra parte, las ciudades son más vulnerables a la crisis de reproducción social desencadenada por los recortes en el sector público; a diferencia de las zonas rurales, donde las redes sociales de apoyo pueden ser más estrechas, las poblaciones urbanas son más dependientes de los mecanismos formales de reproducción social proporcionados por los servicios ciudad es 18 (2015) Dossier Monográfico públicos (Matsaganis, 2011;Hall et al, 2013). Por último, existe una tendencia a desplazar hacia abajo la gestión de los conflictos sociales producidos por los recortes, lo que Jamie Peck (2012, p. 647) ha llamado dumping escalar.…”

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Urbanismo, crisis y austeridad

Buitrago

2017

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RESUMENLa actual recesión constituye una oportunidad para explorar la relación entre crisis económicas y producción del espacio. Este artículo esboza un marco de análisis para entender el rol de los procesos de reestructuración urbana y territorial en la formación, gestión y resolución de las crisis capitalistas, y viceversa, para comprender los períodos de crisis como etapas clave en la historia de la urbanización y la evolución de las técnicas urbanísticas. En primer lugar se realiza un rápido recorrido por varios episodios históricos de crisis, mostrando el papel estratégico de la transformación del medio construido en los mismos. Tras un breve análisis de las causas de la burbuja inmobiliaria española y su pinchazo, el trabajo sugiere que el nuevo "urbanismo de la austeridad" profundizará las prácticas abiertas por la urbanización neoliberal de las últimas décadas. Una vez estudiadas las principales características de este nuevo ciclo de destrucción creativa urbana, el artículo concluye con una serie de propuestas críticas para el desarrollo de un urbanismo alternativo basado en los principios de justicia y democracia socioespacial.Palabras clave: urbanismo, crisis, austeridad, gran recesión, burbuja inmobiliaria española, capitalismo, neoliberalismo, mercado inmobiliario. ABSTRACTThe current recession provides an opportunity to explore the interrelation of economic crunches and the production of space. This article outlines an interpretive framework to probe the fundamental role of urban and territorial restructuring in the formation, management and resolution of capitalist crises and, conversely, to understand periods of crisis as key stages in the history of urbanization and the development of planning techniques. I begin with a cursory review of several historical episodes of crisis, showing the strategic role played by the transformation of the built environment in these periods. After a brief analysis of the causes of the real estate bubble and subsequent bust in Spain, I suggest that the emerging "austerity urbanism" will deepen the agenda of neoliberal planning in recent decades. The article studies the main features of the forthcoming cycle of urban creative destruction and concludes with a series of critical proposals that could contribute to developing an alternative urbanism based on the tenets of sociospatial justice and democracy.

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“…(Hall et al, 2013). With regard to politics, Dean (2013) argues that reflexivity, along with complexity, make the current neoliberal economic-political crisis appear too big and complex to grasp in its entirety.…”

Section: Present and Future Politics: Becoming Prepared For The Unexpmentioning

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“…Psychoanalysis can challenge neoliberalism both at the level of institutions and the clinic (Layton, 2009(Layton, , 2010, clearly articulating unconscious structures and bringing them to public debate, drawing attention to the neoliberal precariatised, even terrorised state of mind (Hall et al, 2013), and challenging the assumption that nothing can be done differently. These challenges can perhaps pin-point what is blocking the horizon of our experience.…”

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It’s time: Generation and temporality in psychoanalytic feminism

Voela

2016

Psychoanal Cult Soc

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In this paper I examine some key aspects of defining one's generation: transmitting values to younger generations in a way that makes sense to them; cultivating a psychic flexibility that allows us to welcome the future and be prepared for the unexpected whilst not succumbing to the fear of social, political and economic precarity; thinking of generation as both our It's time: generation and temporality in psychoanalytic feminismAngie Voela University of East LondonAt a recent Sociology conference in London the keynote speaker urged her audience to revisit Kristeva's "Women's Time" (1981), arguing that it was still very relevant today. In "Women's time" Kristeva explains that the first generation of feminists were primarily concerned with negotiating the social contract (e.g. basic rights, equality, dignity, freedom), while the second generation focused on the symbolic contract, exploring the dynamics of signification and disrupting linear time. She also announced the advent of a third generation, which was 'not a movement but a signifying space', both a corporeal and a desiring mental space (1981, p. 33).As I was reaching for the text among my books, I remembered reading it in the late eighties, thinking 'what is my generation?' As I write these words, still thinking if I ever managed to arrive at a satisfactory answer, my female students come to mind. They are mostly non-traditional students from a working class background. Many of them are second generation immigrants from African countries. Their

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After neoliberalism: analysing the present

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Learning from a Deceptively Spacious Policy Discourse

Learning from a Deceptively Spacious Policy Discourse

Urbanismo, crisis y austeridad

It’s time: Generation and temporality in psychoanalytic feminism

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