Capitalizing on Crisis: Venture Philanthropy's Colonial Project to Remake Urban Education

Autor/in	Lipman, Pauline
Titel	Capitalizing on Crisis: Venture Philanthropy's Colonial Project to Remake Urban Education
Quelle	In: Critical Studies in Education, 56 (2015) 2, S.241-258 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-8487
DOI	10.1080/17508487.2015.959031
Schlagwörter	Urban Education; Educational Change; Philanthropic Foundations; Private Financial Support; Neoliberalism; Political Influences; Urban Schools; School Districts; Minority Group Students; School Restructuring; Low Income Groups; Educational Policy; Equal Education; Inclusion; Commercialization; Privatization; Case Studies; Governance; Investment; Illinois; Michigan; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen; Bildungsreform; Philanthropismus; Private Investition; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; School district; Schulbezirk; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Inklusion; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Investments; Geldanlage; Investiton
Abstract	This article focuses on the increased power of venture philanthropy to shape education in urban communities of color in the USA. The author situates venture philanthropy's expanded influence in urban school districts in the nexus of urban disinvestment, neoliberal governance, wealth concentration, and economic crisis. The author argues that billionaire philanthropists are using the fiscal crisis of the state to shape education policy and governance, operating as part of the "shadow state". Capitalizing on austerity politics and their philanthropies' embeddedness in the state and advocacy organizations, venture capitalists deploy their enormous wealth and political influence to restructure urban school districts that predominantly serve low-income African American, Latino, and other students of color. The goal of their neoliberal agenda is to restructure education to serve economic competitiveness and to open up the public education sector to capital accumulation. The fusion of the state and capital, through the interrelation of venture philanthropy and government at all scales, to impose policies of disenfranchisement, public school closings, privatization, and appropriation of Black urban space, constitutes a new colonialism. The article illustrates this dynamic through case studies of Detroit, Philadelphia, and Chicago. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01