Mass Intellectuality of the Neoliberal State (eBook)

Mass Higher Education, Public Professionalism, and State Effects in Chile

Nicolas Fleet (Autor)

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2021
308 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-77193-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education
• Zusatzinfo: XX, 308 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Chilean politics • chilean public policy • Knowledge Production • neoliberal state • Student movements
• ISBN-10: 3-030-77193-8 / 3030771938
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-77193-5 / 9783030771935