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Neoliberalism in Thai and Indonesian Universities : using photo-elicitation methods to picture space for possibility
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Burford, James and Wijaya Mulya, Teguh (2018) Neoliberalism in Thai and Indonesian Universities : using photo-elicitation methods to picture space for possibility. In: Manathunga, C. and Bottrell, D., (eds.) Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume II. Palgrave Critical University Studies . Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland, pp. 219-245. ISBN 9783319958330
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95834-7_11
Abstract
Over recent years higher education researchers have been grappling with the impacts of sustained neoliberal change to the meanings and practices of higher education. Scholars have tracked the impacts of associated processes such as corporatisation, managerialism and audit culture, and attended to the ways these phenomena are shaping academic life and work. This chapter responds to the need for accounts of the movement and contestation of neoliberal ideas through higher education institutions of the Global South. It focuses on two case studies set in Southeast Asia, namely Thailand and Indonesia. While universities in both countries are increasingly subjected to neoliberal discourse and values, each presents a multifaceted case to consider. Previous studies have tracked the arrival of neoliberal ideas in Indonesian and Thai universities, and have considered reforms enacted following the Asian Financial Crisis of the late 1990s and ensuing international assistance. However, at this point there are very few studies that have explored the possibilities for contesting and re-working neoliberal discourse in Thailand and Indonesia. Building on Connell’s Southern theory thinking, we propose that the “cracks” those of us working in the Global South search for might be found by careful attendance to local contexts and knowledge projects, rather than the dutiful application of Northern theories. In order to bring “cracks” into view the methodology we use is itself visual. We take up photographic methods in order to search for resistant spaces that might be visible in our own academic lives and institutions.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||
Series Name: | Palgrave Critical University Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Cham, Switzerland | ||||
Place of Publication: | Palgrave Macmillan | ||||
ISBN: | 9783319958330 | ||||
Book Title: | Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume II | ||||
Editor: | Manathunga, C. and Bottrell, D. | ||||
Official Date: | 2018 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 219-245 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-95834-7_11 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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