Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities

Ball, Stephen J.; Olmedo, Antonio

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“…Institutional airbrushing reflects particular norms and values, and an attendant reconfiguration of subjectivities (Ball and Olmedo 2013), within the neoliberal university environment. Lynch (2013, 9) cites a general 'fabrication of image over substance', and in a context also characterised by constant monitoring and precarity which have a silencing effect (Duckworth et al 2016, 905), it is likely that sexual harassment and violence are among many issues we overlook while we try to keep our jobs (at best) or further our careers (at worst).…”

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Reckoning up: sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university

Phipps

2018

Gender and Education

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This paper situates sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university. Using data from a 'composite ethnography' representing twelve years of research, I argue that institutional inaction on these issues reflects how they are 'reckoned up' in the context of gender and other structures. The impact of disclosure is projected in market terms: this produces institutional airbrushing which protects both the institution and those (usually privileged men) whose welfare is bound up with its success. Staff and students are differentiated by power/value relations, which interact with gender and intersecting categories. Survivors are often left with few alternatives to speaking out in the 'outrage economy' of the corporate media: however, this can support institutional airbrushing and bolster punitive technologies. I propose the method of Grounded Action Inquiry, implemented with attention to Lorde's work on anger, as a parrhesiastic practice of 'speaking in' to the neoliberal institution.

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Reckoning up: sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university

Phipps

2018

Gender and Education

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“…Therefore, investigating the force and influence of neoliberal educational practices involves understanding how competition informs the subjectivities of staff and students, who are encouraged to focus on “ what we do rather than on what we are , that is to say, the work of the care of the self ,” where the self, as agent and object, is intertwined with power (Ball and Olmedo 2012, 87, emphasis in original). The self, in this instance, is realized and maintained through daily interaction with social and cultural resources bound to institutional logics, as subjectivities are shaped in relation to neoliberalism as the “new regime of truth” (Ball and Olmedo 2012, 87). I conclude by focusing on three key areas relevant to the corporatization of education and de-democratizing communities before presenting a lingering image from my last day at H-West.…”

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“We Make Our Own Rules Here”: Democratic Communities, Corporate Logics, and “No Excuses” Practices in a Charter School Management Organization

Stahl¹

2019

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Recently, there has been growing debate over the managerial and leadership practices of expanding charter school networks, often referred to as Charter School Management Organizations (CMOs). CMOs—which typically serve low–socioeconomic status students of color—are deeply tied to education reform efforts in the United States. Many CMOs consistently promote the belief that education can and should borrow heavily from the “best practices” of corporate culture and many have unlimited resources to enact their vision of educational success, closely aligned with what has been called “no excuses” schooling. Research on the daily practices of leaders working in a CMO remains limited; we know very little of how corporate ideologies are enacted in schooling. Drawing on ethnographic vignettes, I explore the daily life in one school within a CMO network considering to what extent corporate practices de-democratize education, produce neoliberal subjectivities, and shape experiences with learning for disadvantaged populations.

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“…learning patterns among students, formed by discourses of assessment (Atkinson 2002(Atkinson , 2011 and enacted through the centralisation of performative teachers (Ball & Olmedo 2013). At the workplace setting of this research, which I will anonymise as the Sixth Form College, this conditioning affected both 'academic' A Level students and 'vocational' BTEC students, but the muting effects were particularly notable among the BTEC students, who were perceived as being more in need of firmly scaffolded tuition.…”

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Agency and Social Construction: Practice of the Self in Art and Design

Matthews¹

2018

Int J Art Design Ed

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Learning in the arts has the potential to be a co‐constructive means of inquiry for students, which enables experience of the self in relation to practice. This research explores a practice‐based investigation of agency as self‐definition, amid normative social constructions of the subject. The focus for data analysis is a project taught to BTEC Level 2 Art and Design students in a deprived area of North London (2010–12). A dialogue is presented between the implications for Sartre's theory of free‐will and a Foucauldian critique of social construction. Applications for this comparative theory are discussed here as a form of resistance to the compression of learning identities in art and design, and across the curriculum. This is an approach which encourages emancipated self‐representation, acknowledging cultural diversity, for a discursive environment viable at all levels of study. In exploring the data, a positioning of free‐will with social responsibility is identified as an inclusive forum for creative understanding, and the tolerance of difference.

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Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities

Cited by 43 publications

References 1 publication

Reckoning up: sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university

Reckoning up: sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university

“We Make Our Own Rules Here”: Democratic Communities, Corporate Logics, and “No Excuses” Practices in a Charter School Management Organization

Agency and Social Construction: Practice of the Self in Art and Design

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