Agile Bodies: A New Imperative in Neoliberal Governance

Autor/in	Gillies, Donald
Titel	Agile Bodies: A New Imperative in Neoliberal Governance
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 26 (2011) 2, S.207-223 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Business Communication; Ethics; Social Systems; Governance; Entrepreneurship; Discourse Analysis; Higher Education; School Business Relationship; Employee Attitudes; Labor Market; Educational Trends; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Political Attitudes; Politics of Education; Economic Factors; Ideology; Role of Education; European Union; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Unternehmenskommunikation; Ethik; Social system; Soziales System; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Unternehmungsgeist; Diskursanalyse; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Bildungsentwicklung; Politics of education; Politikfeldanalyse; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Ökonomischer Faktor; Ideologie; Bildungsauftrag
Abstract	Modern business discourse suggests that a key bulwark against market fluctuation and the threat of failure is for organizations to become "agile'", a more dynamic and proactive position than that previously afforded by mere "flexibility". The same idea is also directed at the personal level, it being argued that the "agile" individual is better placed to secure employment and to maintain their economic worth within globalized, rapidly changing markets. Educational discourse, particularly relating to the tertiary sector, is also beginning to appropriate such concepts and in this paper the discourse is probed from the perspective of Foucault's notion of governmentality. The paper argues that agility can be seen to be aligned both with the neoliberal concept of the entrepreneurial self and also with the "governance turn", whereby policy aims are achieved through the apparently autonomous actions of agents, but actions which are heavily steered by various control mechanisms. The paper suggests, however, that the "agile" self is but one, albeit powerful, response to the current crisis of capitalism and that counter-conduct is possible by focusing on alternative ethical and political stances. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10