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Postschool Imaginaries: Educational Life After Neoliberalism

Document Type

Article

Keywords

autonomist Marxism, educational biopolitics, educational life, Neoliberalism, postwork, radical imagination, subjectivity

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Policy Futures in Education

Volume

18

Issue

1

First Page

30

Last Page

50

Abstract

This essay expands on the concept of educational life and builds on an autonomist Marxist framework that better allows us to understand neoliberalism’s parasitic operations. Following this, the last section will confront the limits of the progressive educational imaginary and offer up for consideration postschool imaginaries. Drawing on Kathi Weeks’ concept of postwork imaginaries, Bourassa considers how postschool imaginaries might be conducive for troubling particular operations that have become embedded in the grammar of schooling and, also, how they might cultivate alternative and affirmative forms of educational life both in the present and ‘after neoliberalism’.

Department

Department of Educational Psychology, Foundations, and Leadership Studies

Original Publication Date

1-1-2020

DOI of published version

10.1177/1478210318765544

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

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