In/Difference in the neoliberalised university

Title: In/Difference in the neoliberalised university
Creator: Petersen, Eva Bendix; Davies, Bronwyn
Relation: Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences Vol. 3, Issue 2, p. 92-109
Relation: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/ltss
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: In this article the authors take up the invitation to respond to the previous articles in the special issue. They discuss why it is so difficult to speak and write about gender and sexuality, and difference more generally, in the neoliberalised university. They make the case that the neoliberal university engages and uses categorical difference, and the individuals inhabiting these, mainly for auditing purposes. The authors develop the argument that despite the enterprise university's official commitments to diversity and inclusion, it remains indifferent to difference, understood as openness to becoming different, to differenciation in a Deleuzian sense. Difference is privatised and depoliticised and is only acceptable if it is useful and exploitable in pre-specified ways and if it conforms to and facilitates neoliberal agendas.
Subject: neoliberalism; enterprise university; difference; differenciation; depoliticisation
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/926654
Identifier: uon:9901
Identifier: ISSN:1755-2273
Language: eng
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