Templates,typologies and typifications: neoliberalism as keyword |
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Authors: | Emma Rowe Christopher Lubienski Andrew Skourdoumbis Jessica Gerrard David Hursh |
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Institution: | 1. Faculty of Arts &2. Education, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australiaemma.rowe@deakin.edu.au;4. School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA;5. Education, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia;6. Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;7. Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, University of Rochester, New?York, NY, USA |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTNeoliberalism as a concept, ideology, or theoretical lens has emerged in the last couple of decades as a monolithic presence in education research, and the social sciences more broadly. We bring two aims to this Special Issue: to critique the rigour of neoliberalism as a theoretical framework utilised within education research; and second, to explore and propose an alternative to neoliberalism as a critical frame of analysis. This paper will postulate three-waves of neoliberalism, specifically ordo-liberalism, radical liberalism, and post-neoliberalism. We challenge ‘big-N’ neoliberalism; conceptualisations of neoliberalism as homogenous and monolithic; and, demonstrate how neoliberalism interacts with particular milieus of time and space. In reflection of Williams but also Foucault’s tracing of ‘discursive formations’, neoliberalism as a keyword points to a genealogy of power which requires further excavation. The notion of an assemblage, enabling mutations and contra configurations, may offer a way forward. |
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Keywords: | Neoliberalism ordo-liberalism Foucault Fraser keyword: assemblage |
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