Browsing by Subject "Governmentality"
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Governing the academic subject: Foucault, governmentality and the performing university
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-19)Drawing on research conducted at National University of Ireland, Galway, this paper explores how senior managers at an Irish university are seeking to measure and facilitate academic performance in the context of national ... -
Governmentality and the Performativity of the Asylum Process
(2012-09-28)This thesis is about the construction and performance of subject positions. Specifically, these include the subject position refugee and its negative constituent the bogus asylum seeker. Such a construction has over time ... -
Regimes of performance: practices of the normalised self in the neoliberal university
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-07)Universities today inescapably find themselves part of nationally and globally competitive networks that appear firmly inflected by neoliberal concerns of rankings, benchmarking and productivity. This, of course, has in ...