Neoliberalism and the Demeaning of Student Movements

The “educational danger” of student movements—to reformulate Howard Zinn’s phrase¹—lies in their capacity to produce insurgencies, insurgencies that are created by connecting social formations and processes that are supposed to be understood as disparate. We may understand student movements as effor...

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Published inWe Demand Vol. 1; p. 68
Main Author Ferguson, Roderick A
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of California Press 25.04.2017
Edition1
Subjects
Academic communities
Applied psychology
Behavioral sciences
College students
Disabilities
Economic liberalism
Economic theory
Economics
Education
Educational institutions
Educational psychology
Formal education
Gender studies
Government
Government services
Health sciences
Human societies
Law enforcement
Medical conditions
Police
Political science
Psychology
Queer studies
School campuses
Schools
Social movements
Social sciences
Sociology
Special needs students
Student behavior
Student movements
Student protests
Students
Universities
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ISBN9780520293007
0520293002
DOI10.1525/9780520966284-006

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Summary:The “educational danger” of student movements—to reformulate Howard Zinn’s phrase¹—lies in their capacity to produce insurgencies, insurgencies that are created by connecting social formations and processes that are supposed to be understood as disparate. We may understand student movements as efforts to illustrate the connections among systems of power that arose between academy, government, and corporation. The previous chapter used the increasing visibility of minoritized communities to explain the social ruptures that student and social movements produced in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s; this chapter looks at how systems of power have responded to those movements by demeaning
ISBN:9780520293007
0520293002
DOI:10.1525/9780520966284-006