ERIC Number: EJ910111
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 18
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In/Difference in the Neoliberalised University
Petersen, Eva Bendix; Davies, Bronwyn
Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, v3 n2 p92-109 Sum-Win 2010
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. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Organizational Change, Sexuality, Political Attitudes, Gender Differences, Universities, Classification, Inclusion, Women Faculty, College Faculty, Diversity (Faculty), Sexual Orientation, Females, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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