Mass Intellectuality of the Neoliberal State

Mass Higher Education, Public Professionalism, and State Effects in Chile
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-77192-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education

This book addresses the political effects of the massification of higher education and intellectual labor in the neoliberal state. Using the case of Chile, the author argues that public professionalism emerges in the mass university system, producing excesses of knowledge which infuse the state with political purpose at many levels. The emergence of the student movement in 2011, then the major social mobilization against the neoliberal state since the restoration of democracy in 1990, provided a clear manifestation of the politicization and ideological divisions of the mass university system. In conditions of mass intellectuality, public professionals mobilize their political affinities and links with society, eventually affecting the direction of state power, even against neoliberal policy. Through several interviews with academics, public professionals, and other documentary and statistical analyses, the book illustrates the different sites of political socialization and the ideological effectiveness of the emergent mass intellectuality of the neoliberal state.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fleet, Nicolas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Political Potential of Mass Intellectuality.- 2. The Non-Bureaucratic Basis of the Bureaucracy: Universities and Mass Intellectuality.- 3. The Shift of State Autonomy: From Formal Bureaucracy to Autonomous State Work.- 4. The Labour of State Transformations: Public Professionals and Political Process.- 5. Professional Configurations of Political Change and the Ideological Division of Intellectual Labour in the Chilean Public Administration.- 6. Administration and Emancipation: Intellectual Ideals and Autonomous Action of Public Professionals of the State.- 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Nicolas Fleet is Dean of Social, Legal and Economic Sciences at the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Chile. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, UK. His research focuses on political sociology and higher education.