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- Title
In/Difference in the neoliberalised university.
- Authors
Petersen, Eva Bendix; Davies, Bronwyn
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
NEOLIBERALISM; LIBERALISM; POLITICAL doctrines; GENDER identity in education; SEXUAL orientation; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; EDUCATION &; politics
- Publication
Learning & Teaching (1755-2273), 2010, Vol 3, Issue 2, p92
- ISSN
1755-2273
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/latiss.2010.030206