Dr Rille Raaper rille.raaper@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Students as ‘Animal Laborans’? Tracing Student Politics in a Marketised Higher Education Setting
Raaper, R.
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Abstract
This article examines the widespread policy discourses that have constructed the notion of student as consumer in English higher education, and it questions the implications of such fabrications on students’ political engagement. In particular, it explores the extent to which students have been forced into a position of an ‘animal laboran’ whose primary function is to focus on immediate necessities in highly pressurised university environments. By drawing on Arendt, the article will first consider the shift towards representative practices in student politics, characterised by professionalisation of students’ unions. Second, the article will draw on Foucault to investigate the ways in which more personalised forms of students’ political participation related to private interest and single-issue campaigns can emerge in neoliberalised universities and society more broadly.
Citation
Raaper, R. (2021). Students as ‘Animal Laborans’? Tracing Student Politics in a Marketised Higher Education Setting. Sociological Research Online, 26(1), 130-146. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780420952810
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 3, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 15, 2020 |
Publication Date | Mar 1, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Sep 15, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Sociological Research Online |
Electronic ISSN | 1360-7804 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 26 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 130-146 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780420952810 |
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