Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places

This book explores and identifies the conditions needed for the emergence of political subjectivities in international educational contexts, where neoliberal policies and practices are repeated, performed and transformed. Chapters address key theoretical discussions surrounding the different, and sometimes contradicting, norms in neoliberalism and their relationship to education, economy and politics.

Eva Reimers is Professor of Educational Practice at Linköping University, Sweden. Lena Martinsson is Professor of Gender Studies in the Department for Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

1. Introduction: Making trouble with neoliberalism, education and political subjectivity 2. Politics, subjectivity and education in neoliberal times: An interview with Gert Biesta 3. Messy norms and desire for education 4. Competition, accountability and performativity: Exploring schizoid neo-liberal 'equality objectives' in a UK primary school 5. Towards de-cold-war politics: Nationalism, democracy and new politics of/for education in Japan 6. Post-political governing of welfare state education in Sweden 7. Why education? Economic and political subjectivities in public discourses on education 8. Political subjectivity, political struggle and political education in times of precarization 9. Political subjectivity and the experiment of democracy - A conclusion