Global Education Inc: new policy networks and the neo-liberal imaginary

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. By mandating audit cultures and infusing as many institutions as possible with neo-liberal policies surrounding the production of entrepreneurial identities, the norms of love, care, and solidarity that are constitutive structures of thick democratic institutions and societies are made considerably less powerful. Indeed, they are seen as fundamentally irrational under the logics of cost–benefit analysis. See Lynch, Baker, and Lyons (2009 Lynch, K., Baker, J. and Lyons, M. 2009. Affective Equality: Love, Care, and Injustice, London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) for a powerful discussion of the crucial role that these norms play in the struggle for equality. 2. See (http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0F6C7651-EA41CC0D/bst_engl/hs.xsl/273.htm).