An Analytical Proposal for the Understanding of the Higher Education European Space. A View From the University of Barcelona

Authors

  • Edurne Bagué
  • Núria Comerma
  • Ignasi Terradas

Keywords:

University reforms, Neoliberalism, High Education

Abstract

Foucault, as quoted by John Gledhill for a theoretical framework for Political Anthropology , distinguished between Strategies, Technologies and Programs in wide offensives of power. We think that these categories do fit perfectly well as analytical concepts to understand the political and social power launched at the present construction of the Higher Education European Space (HEES). Also we list four other categories coming from Marx and Tocqueville to understand the “culture” or ideology of the undergoing process. These are: alienation, fetishism, formal and real submission and democratic despotism

Author Biography

Ignasi Terradas

Professor of Social Anthropology Department of Social Anthropology University of Barcelona Spain

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Published

2009-10-01

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2010): Universities, Corporatization and Resistance

Section

Comments and Arguments

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